Environmental Health and Safety Manager

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking an Environmental Health and Safety Manager to provide leadership and presence at our Madera, CA facility.

The EH&S Manager provides leadership and strategic direction by building a partnership with front-line leadership and collaborating with business partners to develop and mentor the production team relating to EH&S.

In this role, EH&S Managers ensure systems to effectively address facility EHS risk profiles.

Our Team

The Madera plant is conveniently located in the Central Valley, ideal for day or weekend trips to Yosemite, Kings Canyon National Park, San Francisco, Napa Valley and Sacramento.

We employ more than 130 people at our facility that operates one of the industry’s most sophisticated and modern corrugators and has an impressive array of modern finishing equipment, including, gluers, flexos and die cutters to provide the widest range of corrugated packaging today.

We manufacture corrugated sheets from linerboard and medium and then cut, print and fold these sheets to produce corrugated boxes and trays for our various customers.

What You Will Do

• Providing proactive leadership and direction to achieve the EH&S vision through management commitment and employee ownership
• Developing and aligning facility EH&S programs and strategies according to the business / enterprise EH&S plan
• Conducting routine EH&S reporting
• Ensuring the EH&S vision is developed and integrated
• Fostering an environment where employees understand and exercise their decision rights regarding EH&S
• Ensuring incentive metrics are performance based
• Facilitating EH&S ownership by the line organization through integration of the EH&S Management System
• Ensuring EH&S system elements are integrated into the line organization's responsibilities and expectations
• Leading the development of risk assessment methods / systems for anticipating, identifying, and evaluating hazards
• Increasing critical hazard awareness thereby reducing the likelihood of at-risk behaviors
• Ensuring an effective change management process is in place
• Partnering with facility leadership to develop short and long-term EH&S objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks
• Ensuring the development, improvement, and implementation of training systems to meet facility needs utilizing qualified instructors
• Conducting routine management reviews and adjusting plans as necessary
• Utilizing development plans to grow the teams' EH&S skills and knowledge
• Fostering an EH&S environment of collaboration and active participation with all employees
• Able to manage and develop constituencies that provide assistance to the EH&S department & Plant
• The EH&S role consists of an estimate of 70% Safety and 30% Environmental

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience working and leading a site with an effective safety program
• Safety knowledge around OSHA regulations
• Experience with environmental management for site permit requirements
• Willing and able to occasionally travel to support other internal sites
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office software (i.e., Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Safety, Environmental, or EH&S field
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) or demonstrated progress to attain CSP or other professional safety certifications
• Professional Engineer experience

For this role, we anticipate paying $90,000 - $110,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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.