Health & Safety Manager

Your Job

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

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

Leaf River Cellulose, LLC, is a world-class manufacturing facility where team members are using innovative technologies to produce specialty and market fluff pulp for a variety high-end uses across the globe.

For over 40 years, the Leaf River team has been on a journey to make the best products possible for customers while doing it in new and innovative ways.

Creating value for our customers and for society is the ultimate goal for our business, and one of our comparative advantages in our ability to do so is our employees.

With a workforce of approximately 320, Leaf River is a non-union facility located in the heart of South Mississippi, just 20 miles from Hattiesburg.

As a key mill in the GP Cellulose business, Leaf River is a showcase of safety, operational and environmental excellence.

GP Cellulose is also committed to environmental sustainability and stewardship through every stage of our business, using environmentally conscious production practices to maximize the use of renewable raw materials throughout our process.

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.

Salary and benefits commensurate with experience.

To learn more, visit www.gppackaging.com .

What You Will Do



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