Safety Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products Division seeks a Safety Manager for our Muskogee, OK paper mill. The role provides on-site leadership, leading a Safety & Health team covering Occupational Safety & Health, Workers’ Compensation, and Medical Management. You will partner with mill leadership to identify and mitigate risk, prioritize investments that reduce exposure, and foster a learning-focused culture that delivers sustainable safety improvements. As a key mill leader, the Safety Manager will align facility safety strategy with the company Health & Safety vision, ensure proactive hazard identification and mitigation, and equip leaders and employees with training, coaching, and resources to manage safety and ensure accountability.

Our Team

For over 50 years, the Muskogee Paper Mill has been a major part of the economic lifeblood of the region. With more than 700 employees, across more than 600 acres, Muskogee strives to lead the tissue, towel, and napkin business. Our team recently invested more than $50 million to grow our brands and continue to serve our loyal consumers with the great quality they have come to expect.

Learn more by visiting our consumer products homepage.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop the facility Safety & Health team, plus manage Health Services staff and contractors, and oversee Workers’ Compensation processes and work-related injury cases to ensure timely, effective care and return-to-work outcomes.
• Partner with site leadership to develop and execute strategic safety and health plans, clearly communicating the safety vision, strategies, and performance to internal and external stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary liaison to GP Corporate Safety Capability, managing compliance standards, safety validation/verification, reporting expectations, and the development, maintenance, and completion of annual improvement plans.
• Promote a positive, Principle Based Management (PBM)-driven safety culture that reduces risk, accelerates knowledge sharing, and cultivates a robust, learning-centric environment where teams can fail safely and improve.
• Oversee employee onboarding and ongoing safety training, and use development plans plus innovative training approaches to grow safety and health skills across the workforce.
• Lead Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA) activities—department- and task-level risk analyses—and ensure the facility risk profile is addressed through the design and implementation of key controls.
• Strengthen critical-hazard program management, including hazardous energy control; line breaking/equipment opening; fall protection; mobile equipment and pedestrian interactions; cranes and rigging; permit-to-work systems; and emergency preparedness.
• Facilitate incident and near-miss investigations to maximize learning, produce effective prevention and recovery recommendations, and build organizational capacity for continuous improvement.
• Ensure OSHA regulatory compliance and lead agency interactions as needed, while driving continuous improvement through self-assessments, audits, incident metrics (leading and lagging), and periodic reviews of performance, culture, and talent.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Safety experience in industrial or manufacturing settings with experience improving safety and performance.
• Experience applying EHS management systems and programs and ensuring compliance with OSHA, state, and local regulations.
• Experience leading and developing teams to strengthen safety and compliance capabilities through coaching, training, and targeted talent development.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in safety, industrial hygiene or engineering.
• Experience with Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) concepts/methods
• Board Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Associate Safety Professional (ASP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and/or Professional Engineer (PE) certification
• Experience establishing sustainable systems for compliance and continuous improvement

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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 click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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