Chemical Process Safety Specialist

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking innovative and forward thinkers to consider for a Chemical Process Safety Specialistrole to join our Leaf River Cellulose mill in New Augusta, MS.

The selected individual will drive and support value-based strategies, provide technical direction, and influence leadership for process safety, product stewardship and compliance.

Long-term value is created through the application of the company's Principle Based Management™ business philosophy.

Our Team

Leaf River is a non-union facility in South Mississippi, just 20 miles from Hattiesburg, with a dedicated workforce of about 350 employees.

For 40 years, the Leaf River team has focused on producing top-quality chemical cellulose, custom fibers, and nonwoven materials for products like diapers, baby wipes, and coffee filters.

As part of Georgia-Pacific's Cellulose business, Leaf River exemplifies safety, operational, and environmental excellence.

To learn more, visit http://www.gppackaging.com/

What You Will Do


* Provide process safety influential leadership for the site, working with the mill's Safety team, with specific focus on ensuring that mill process safety systems reduce risk and assure compliance


* Foster process safety ownership within the organization through leadership, coordination, and coaching in keeping with risk-based process safety and Principal Based Management


* Provide routine communication to mill management regarding process safety issues impacting the mill and support for safe mitigation


* Lead risk assessments at the facility for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards as well as more formal PHAs


* Partner with corporate process safety and compliance IT groups to develop and improve training, tools, and policies that support the mill


* Assist S&H leadership with the development of short and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks


* Provide analysis of process safety incidents and near misses to assure sustainable corrective actions are implemented and detailed technical direction to improve process safety performance


* Review training systems for effectiveness and making recommendations for improvement


* Ensure and provide metrics to monitor process safety compliance


* Review and validate the following: process equipment design specifications, safeguard specifications, and operating procedures


* Coordinate the engineering review capability for process hazard analyses (PHA), management of change (MOC), and pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR)


* Provide oversight for the mill's process safety information including: P&ID's, PFD's, chemical compatibility matrix, etc.


* Serve as a mentor for technical and hourly employees to make process safety an everyday mission for continuous improvement in daily operations


* Position will consist of 50% field work and 50% office work, and will require taking o...