Process Safety Leader

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an experienced Process Safety Leader to oversee Process Safety at Georgia-Pacific's paper mill in Pennington, AL.

The individual in this role reports to the Safety Leader and works closely with operations, maintenance and the Safety team to create the greatest long-term value for Georgia-Pacific.

The successful candidate will increase the application and effectiveness of the mill's process safety program, becoming a benchmark site for process safety.

This position will have one direct report.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Naheola Mill is a manufacturing site for the company's well-known consumer products business.

More than 950 employees produce a wide range of products for the consumer business, including Angel Soft® bath tissue, Sparkle® paper towels, as well as bleached paperboard used in Dixie® paper cups and plates.

The mill is the largest employer in the community and is engaged in supporting community outreach, workforce development and education.

The area is a sportsman's paradise with world-class hunting for deer, turkey and other small game and is bounded on the east by the Tombigbee River which provides such recreation as freshwater fishing, boating and water skiing.

Residents of this area enjoy the mild climate, the low cost of living, and is an easy drive to the many resort communities and soft white-sand beaches of the Gulf Coast.

What You Will Do


* Provide influential process safety leadership for the site, working with the mill's Leadership 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 Principle Based Management (PBM®)


* Evaluate the existing Process Safety program and facilitate improvements so that becomes best-in-class.


* Provide routine communication to the organization 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 Process Hazard Analyses (PHA).


* Lead process safety incident and near miss investigations to ensure that root causes are identified and sustainable corrective actions are developed to improve process safety performance.


* Assist Safety and Health leadership with the development of short and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks.


* Provide review and validation of 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&IDs, PFDs, and chemical...