Safety & Health Leader – Jobs at Georgia Pacific

Job Description:

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Safety & Health Leader at our Monticello, MS facility. Reporting to the Vice President, General Manager, the Safety & Health Leader will provide transformative leadership and guidance to the leadership team and their direct reports, including the Engineering group as they pursue capital projects, and the Reliability group from a Mechanical Integrity perspective. This position will lead a Safety & Health capability group that includes Process Safety Engineering, Occupational Safety & Health, Worker’s Compensation / Medical Management, and the Emergency Response Team. This role will work directly with the leadership team in identify risk reduction, transformative capital project opportunities via the site’s Path to Zero risk reduction plan, applying Human & Organizational Performance (HOP) concepts to assist Monticello in becoming a learning environment, and create value by achieving sustainable cultural improvements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Allocating resources to effectively execute strategies
• Utilizing development plans to grow safety/health and process safety skills and knowledge though innovation in training and development programs
• Providing transformational leadership and guidance to achieve virtuous cycles of mutual benefit
• Providing leadership, influencing and strategic direction to leadership team and direct reports to achieve the vision of ZERO significant incidents
• Developing strategies for emerging facility and corporate needs and initiatives, especially those related to risk reduction with asset strategies and process safety ventures
• Leading, coaching, and developing direct reports utilizing the MBM® Guiding Principles and Operations Excellence tools to improve their capability and performance
• Serving as a coach, mentor and counselor to mill VP, facility leadership, capability groups and S&H team to develop and execute short and long-term safety & health objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks

Job Requirements:

• Working closely with facility maintenance to assure mechanical integrity is managed in keeping with risk-based process safety objectives as well as compliance-based requirements
• Ensuring compliance with OSHA PSM and EPA RMP requirements for the covered process, as well as promote the use of process safety principles throughout the mill to reduce risk to our employees, our environment, and our community
• Applying Human & Organization Performance (HOP) concepts so the facility becomes a robust learning environment where knowledge sharing occurs in an expedite manner
• Communicating with business unit safety and health and other personnel to assure alignment with business vision, strategy, and programs
• Ensuring the Risk Management System is utilized to sustain and improve performance
• Leading the development of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards, overseeing evaluation, interpretation, and compliance with state and federal regulations and permits

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience in influencing operating leadership teams as well as site safety and health teams
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Five (5) or more years of experience in a safety and health leadership role

Job Details:

Company: Georgia Pacific

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Monticello, MS, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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