Chemical Process Safety Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Process Safety Leader to support the operations at our containerboard mill in Toledo, OR.

This role is responsible for the development, implementation, and management of process safety programs and management systems.

As a member of the Toledo Safety Team, this position reports to the Safety Leader and is responsible for supervising a Process Safety Engineer.

Toledo Operations is an integrated pulp and paper mill producing linerboard and corrugating medium.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific Toledo is a producer of brown paper used to make cardboard and is a leader in recycling in the Northwest.

The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean.

Many outdoor activities are available near the mill including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.

What You Will Do


* Lead and support the performance and development of the Process Safety Engineer role.


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


* Facilitate and grow process safety ownership across the operations and maintenance organizations through leadership, coordination, and coaching in keeping with risk-based process safety and our Principle-Based Management ™ (PBM) culture.


* Lead risk assessments at the facility for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards as well as more formal Process Hazard Analyses (PHA).


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


* Lead 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 and validate 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 chemical process safety support and expertise to the mill's Emergency Response Team (ERT).


* Position will participate in on-call rotation as needed (in general, once every 8 week period, and may include one holiday per year).

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)


* Bachelor's Degree


* Operations, engineering, mechanical integrity, or reliability experience within a PSM regulated manufacturing or industrial environment that included process safety covered assets


* Experience and working knowledge of Process Safety regulations (i.e.: 29 CFR 1910.119 and 40 CFR 68, OSHA)

What Will Put You Ahead


* Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or S...