Safety Manager - Plywood

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking qualified individuals to consider for a Safety Manager opportunity at our Prosperity, SC facility.

This role will provide safety leadership and strategic direction for the Prosperity facility through the application of our Principle Based Management™ (PBM) Framework, helping leaders and employees own safety decisions, challenge the status quo, and continuously improve how work gets done.

The Safety Manager will drive safety excellence and performance improvement through real culture change, effective and sustainable management systems, and ensuring leaders and employees are trained and equipped to manage safety.

The role reports directly to the Plant Manager, with a dotted-line reporting relationship to the Division Safety and Health Manager.

What You Will Do

• Provide leadership and direction in establishing and achieving a meaningful safety vision and effective strategies through management commitment and employee ownership.

• Lead the development and use of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards; drive and assist with the mitigation of identified gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.

• Actively manage all aspects of compliance (e.g., OSHA, company standards) and ensure ownership resides with the appropriate roles within the organization.

• Ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through the development and implementation of key controls.

• Recommend and facilitate engineering/design changes to eliminate or reduce risk (e.g., machine guarding, ergonomics, traffic, fire/explosion, noise, upset conditions).

• Drive flawless execution, assessment, and improvement of critical safe work practices.

• Support all phases of capital and major expense projects to help ensure safe execution (e.g., design review, contractor selection/orientation/auditing, work plans/permits, pre-startup review).

• Identify safety development and training needs and support the creation and delivery of effective training.

• Drive continuous improvement using tools and activities including self-assessments and audit processes, incident/near-miss investigations, metrics and targets, and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading or managing safety programs in a manufacturing or industrial environment (for example: driving compliance, risk reduction, or culture change initiatives).

• Experience interpreting and managing to OSHA, state, and local safety and compliance standards.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or a related field.

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) certification.

• Experience leading safety culture change and developing/implementing safety management systems (such as behavior-based programs, risk assessment processes, or standardized safe work practices).

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