Georgia-Pacific - Frisco City, AL
posted 3 months ago
About the position
Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified contribution-motivated individuals to consider for a Facility Safety Manager opportunity at our Rocky Creek Lumber facility in Frisco City, AL. 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. This position is crucial in establishing a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies that promote management commitment and employee ownership in safety practices. The Facility Safety Manager will lead the development and use of risk assessment methods and systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards. This includes driving and assisting with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities. The role also involves actively managing all aspects of compliance with safety regulations, such as OSHA and company standards, ensuring that ownership of safety practices resides with the appropriate roles within the organization. Additionally, the Facility Safety Manager will ensure that the facility's risk profile is addressed through the development and implementation of key controls. In this role, the manager will recommend and facilitate engineering and design changes to eliminate or reduce risks associated with machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire/explosion hazards, noise, and upset conditions. The position requires driving flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices, as well as supporting all phases of capital and major expense projects to ensure safe execution. This includes design reviews, contractor selection, orientation, auditing, work plans, permits, and pre-startup reviews. Furthermore, the Facility Safety Manager will identify safety development and training needs and drive continuous improvement using tools and activities such as self-assessments, audit processes, incident and near-miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership.
- Lead the development and use of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards.
- Drive and assist with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
- Actively manage all aspects of compliance (e.g., OSHA, company standards) and ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization.
- Ensure facility risk profile is addressed through development/implementation of key controls.
- Recommend and facilitate engineering/design changes to eliminate or reduce risk (e.g., machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire/explosion, noise, upset conditions).
- Drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices.
- Support all phases of capital and major expense projects to ensure safe execution (e.g., design review, contractor selection/orientation/auditing, work plans/permits, pre-startup review).
- Identify safety development and training needs.
- Drive 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or higher.
- Safety leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
Nice-to-haves
- Bachelor's Degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering.
