Georgia-Pacific - Dudley, NC
posted 5 months ago
Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified individuals to consider for a Facility Safety Manager opportunity at our Dudley, NC lumber facility. This role will provide safety leadership and strategic direction to the facility through the application of our Principle Based Management™ Framework. The Facility Safety Manager will drive safety excellence and performance improvement through real culture change, effective and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are trained and equipped to manage safety. The role reports directly to the Plant Manager, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Division Safety and Health Manager. In this position, you will provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership. You will lead the development and use of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards, driving and assisting with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. Actively managing all aspects of compliance (e.g., OSHA, company standards) is crucial, ensuring ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization. You will also ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through the development and implementation of key controls. Your responsibilities will include recommending and facilitating engineering/design changes to eliminate or reduce risk, such as machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire/explosion, noise, and upset conditions. You will drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices, supporting all phases of capital and major expense projects to ensure safe execution. This includes design review, contractor selection/orientation/auditing, work plans/permits, and pre-startup review. Identifying safety development and training needs will be a key part of your role, as well as driving continuous improvement using tools and activities including self-assessments and audit processes, incident/near miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.