Safety & Health Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a dedicated Safety & Health Manager to provide leadership presence at our Alabama River Cellulose facility in Perdue Hill, AL.

Reporting to the Vice President, General Manager, the Safety Manager will provide transformative leadership and guidance to the site leadership team and their team of direct reports.

This position will lead a Safety and Health capability group that includes strategic direction and oversite in the areas of Occupational Safety and Health, Process Safety, Worker's Compensation/Medical Management, Emergency Response for the site, and Security.

This role will work directly with the leadership team in identifying risk reduction plans, leverage transformative investment opportunities via the site's Path to Zero risk reduction plan, and applying Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) concepts to assist the mill in becoming a learning organization, creating value by achieving sustainable improvements.

As a key leader in the mill, the successful candidate will create value for the organization by ensuring risk is aggressively identified and mitigated, developing and aligning facility safety strategies to be consistent with the company/division Health & Safety vision, and ensuring leaders and employees are trained and equipped to manage safety.

Our culture is defined by the Principle Based Management ™ philosophy which guides everyday decision-making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

Our Team

The Alabama River Cellulose facility is the largest fluff pulp manufacturing mill in North America and employs over five hundred team members.

For more than 48 years, the Alabama River team has been on a journey to make the best products possible for customers while doing it in new and innovative ways.

Our products include chemical cellulose and custom fibers used in products such as diapers, baby wipes, filters, paper products, and transformers.

As one of three mills in our GP Cellulose business, Alabama River is a showcase of safety, operational and environmental excellence.

Our culture is defined by the Principle Based Management ™ philosophy which guides everyday decision-making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create.

To learn more about our Cellulose division, please visit: www.gppackaging.com .

What You Will Do

• Supervise the Safety & Health team and ongoing development of the team

• Partner with mill leadership to develop and execute strategic safety and health improvement plans

• Promote a positive safety environment using Principle Based Management (PBM) as the guide with all team members to help the facility embrace and achieve the site's Path to Zero Safety strategy consistent with our company's overall Safety Vision

• Lead the Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) methodology at the site, including department and task ris...