Safety Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Division seeks a Safety Manager for our Muskogee, OK paper mill.

The role provides on-site leadership, leading a Safety & Health team covering Occupational Safety & Health, Workers' Compensation, and Medical Management.

You will partner with mill leadership to identify and mitigate risk, prioritize investments that reduce exposure, and foster a learning-focused culture that delivers sustainable safety improvements.

As a key mill leader, the Safety Manager will align facility safety strategy with the company Health & Safety vision, ensure proactive hazard identification and mitigation, and equip leaders and employees with training, coaching, and resources to manage safety and ensure accountability.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region.

With more than 700 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business.

Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do


* Lead and develop the facility Safety & Health team, plus manage Health Services staff and contractors, and oversee Workers' Compensation processes and work-related injury cases to ensure timely, effective care and return-to-work outcomes.


* Partner with site leadership to develop and execute strategic safety and health plans, clearly communicating the safety vision, strategies, and performance to internal and external stakeholders.


* Serve as the primary liaison to GP Corporate Safety Capability, managing compliance standards, safety validation/verification, reporting expectations, and the development, maintenance, and completion of annual improvement plans.


* Promote a positive, Principle Based Management (PBM)-driven safety culture that reduces risk, accelerates knowledge sharing, and cultivates a robust, learning-centric environment where teams can fail safely and improve.


* Oversee employee onboarding and ongoing safety training, and use development plans plus innovative training approaches to grow safety and health skills across the workforce.


* Lead Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) activities-department- and task-level risk analyses-and ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through the design and implementation of key controls.


* Strengthen critical-hazard program management, including hazardous energy control; line breaking/equipment opening; fall protection; mobile equipment and pedestrian interactions; cranes and rigging; permit-to-work systems; and emergency preparedness.


* Facilitate incident and near-miss investigations to maximize learning, produce effective prevention and recovery recommendations, and build organizational capacity for continuous improvement.


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