Chemical Process Safety Engineer

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific, LLC is seeking an entry-level Process Safety Engineer to join our team at the Toledo, OR containerboard mill.

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

Georgia Pacific Toledo is one of five containerboard manufacturing sites within our Packing & Cellulose division.

They are also a recycling leader in the Northwest United Sates.

The team is currently comprised of 480+ dedicated employees.

We are looking for individuals who are contribution motivated, driven by the ability to add value to existing systems and processes.

The Toledo Mill is located within a 10-minute drive to the Pacific Ocean and offers many local outdoor activities including fishing, hiking, mountain biking, kayaking, and boating.

What You Will Do



* Develop your technical and leadership capabilities through the management of risk assessment strategies and opportunities for risk reduction
+ Participate in Risk Assessments (PHAs, Project Design Reviews, Design Operation and Maintenance, Prevention through Design)
+ Develop and update process safety guidelines and risk assessment tools
+ Develop expertise with the Chemical Reactivity Hazard Management electronic tool


* Lead by influence through participating and facilitating group discussions, knowledge sharing, and presentations


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


* 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 and provide metrics to monitor process safety compliance


* Evaluate training systems for effectiveness and making recommendations for improvement


* 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


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


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


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

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