Safety Analyst
Company: GCP PAPER USA, Inc.
Location: Houston, TX
Job Type: Full-Time, Salaried
FLSA Status: Exempt
Shift: Monday – Friday
Job Summary
GCP PAPER USA, Inc. is seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Safety Analyst to join our Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team in Houston. This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring plant-wide safety, hygiene, and environmental programs to cultivate a highly secure work environment. The ideal candidate will conduct safety risk assessments, lead comprehensive training initiatives, manage contractor compliance, and maintain strict documentation for ISO and OSHA standards to prevent workplace hazards and support maximum production efficiency.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Safety Training & Education: Design and deliver technical safety training modules and daily 5-minute safety talks for plant personnel to ensure alignment with industrial safety instructions, health codes, and emergency guidelines.
- Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment: Develop and maintain comprehensive Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) profiles and risk assessment matrices across all manufacturing positions to establish safe work instructions and reduce floor incidents.
- Onboarding & Contractor Inductions: Execute EHS orientation training for all incoming employees, operational operators, and external contractors; audit third-party contractor compliance files, including insurance certifications and safety records.
- High-Risk Work Permitting: Supervise high-risk plant operations across all production zones and validate detailed risk assessments before authorizing mandatory hot work, confined space, or elevated work permits.
- Environmental Waste Tracking: Monitor and document the collection, tracking, and legal disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste streams, ensuring continuous maintenance of environmental logs and compliance bitacoras.
- EHS Metrics & Dashboard Reporting: Compile, analyze, and track safety and environmental key performance indicators (KPIs) to present structural data during plant-wide leadership and indicator review meetings.
- Integrated Management System (IMS) Compliance: Administer and preserve documented IMS information, certificates, and validation records to meet active audit parameters for ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 14001 (Environmental) standards.
- Corrective & Preventive Actions (CAPA): Record, monitor, and investigate plant safety near-misses or deviations to deploy effective corrective actions and promote a continuous culture of behavioral and environmental improvement.
- Stop-Work Authority: Authorized to immediately halt any manufacturing process, contractor maneuver, or material flow if an imminent hazard or critical safety/environmental violation is detected.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, or a related technical field preferred.
- Experience: Minimum 2 years of dedicated experience as a Safety Analyst, EHS Coordinator, or equivalent safety compliance role within an industrial manufacturing or production facility.
- Technical Knowledge: Practical knowledge of OSHA general industry standards, EPA waste regulations, emergency brigade response, fire-fighting equipment management, first aid, and ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 management frameworks.
- Language: Professional communication skills in English and Spanish preferred (targeting bilingual fluency with approximately 40% to 80% capability).
- Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
- Postures: Ability to perform administrative office work (sitting) paired with constant daily safety sweeps across production floors and loading yard environments (standing and walking). Physical capacity to bend, crouch, reach, and climb industrial stairs or ladders occasionally.
- Lifting: Ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull objects, equipment samples, and safety archive files weighing up to 50 lbs.
- Environment: Balanced split between a temperature-controlled administrative office setting and an active industrial plant floor with regular exposure to machinery noise, paper dust, and seasonal temperature variations.
- Required PPE: Constant and mandatory use of company-provided safety boots, protective eyewear, hard hats, hairnets/caps, and high-visibility vests during floor audits.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Company Benefits
- 100% Employer-Paid Healthcare: Fully covered individual Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance.
- 100% Employer-Paid Disability: Fully covered Short-Term Disability (STD) and Long-Term Disability (LTD).
- Retirement: 401(k) Plan.
- Time Off: Paid Time Off (PTO).
Standard Disclaimers & Compliance
Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
- Employment At-Will: This job description does not constitute an employment contract. Employment with GCP PAPER USA, Inc. is "At-Will," meaning that either the employee or the company can terminate the employment relationship at any time, with or without cause or prior notice.
- Equal Opportunity Employer: GCP PAPER USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
- Regulatory Compliance: The individual in this position is responsible for adhering to all OSHA safety protocols, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001 standards, corporate Code of Ethics, Employee Manual, and active Human Resources policies.