Process Safety Leader - Georgia-Pacific

Georgia-Pacific's Consumer Manufacturing Group has an immediate opening for a Process Safety Leader at the Savannah River Mill located in Rincon, Georgia. The Process Safety Leader will be responsible for the development, implementation, and management of the Savannah River Mill's process safety programs and management systems, while working closely with process safety professionals across the organization to leverage best practices and knowledge to drive the highest value for the company.

Our Team

At Georgia-Pacific's Savannah River Mill, we've had the privilege of calling the Effingham County community home since 1986. With more than 900 team members, we proudly produce the quality tissue, towel, and napkin products our customers use every day in their homes and in restaurants, airports, offices, and other away-from-home locations. Located in southeast Georgia just north of Savannah, the Savannah River Mill serves as Effingham County's largest private employer. At the Savannah River Mill, you will find five of the world's 12 largest tissue paper machines. The mill is in a beautiful part of the country in Effingham County with some of the best school systems in the state. It is close to the coast and the great city of Savannah, GA. The mill has established an excellent relationship with its community and participates in many community events. This role creates long term value by ensuring risks are identified and mitigated while sustaining performance improvement and striving for process safety excellence. This is accomplished by providing leadership and strategic direction through the application of the Principle Based Management® (PBM®) and adherence to our Principles.

What You Will Do

• Provide process safety influential leadership for the site, with specific focus on ensuring that mill process safety systems reduce risk and assure compliance
• Provide technical direction to achieve the Process Safety vision
• Facilitate and grow process safety ownership across the operations and maintenance organizations through leadership, coordination, and coaching in keeping with risk-based process safety
• Provide routine communication to mill management 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)
• Apply the principles of Process Safety to make process safety an operating discipline within all affected roles at the mill
• Partner with corporate process safety and compliance IT groups to develop and improve training, tools, and policies that support the site
• Lead the development of short and long-term process safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks
• Provide analysis of process safety incidents and near misses to assure sustainable corrective actions are implemented and detailed technical direction to improve process safety performance
• Review training systems for effectiveness and make recommendations for improvement
• Provide and communicate metrics that monitor the health of the process safety program
• Review and validate process equipment design specifications, safeguard specifications, and operating procedures
• Coordinate process hazard analyses (PHA), management of change (MOC), and pre-startup safety reviews (PSSR), as well as other risk assessments
• Provide oversight for the mill's process safety information including P&IDs, PFDs, and chemical incompatibility matrix
• Ensure management systems effectively include the facility's Process Safety risk profile and include the PS strategies
• Work with and through others to make process safety the way we conduct operations every day

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Leadership experience in operations, engineering, mechanical integrity, or reliability within a manufacturing, industrial or military environment that included process safety covered assets
• Experience and working knowledge of Process Safety regulations (i.e.: 29 CFR 1910.119 and 40 CFR 68, OSHA)
• Experience with Risk Assessments processes such as Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Engineering
• Experience in a process safety role or equivalent engineering experience with responsibility for a CPS/PSM regulated asset or operation
• Experience in the pulp & paper industry
• Supervisory experience within a chemical, petrochemical, or pulp and paper mill
• Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) or equivalent certifications
• Experience and knowledge of how manufacturing processes work and basic equipment operation within the processes

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath, tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day - to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf

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