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Director Safety and Health

Georgia Pacific
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
133 Peachtree Street Northeast (Show on map)
Dec 08, 2025
Your Job Georgia-Pacific is seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to assume the role of Director of Safety and Health in our CPG business based in Atlanta, GA. This position offers the opportunity to drive impactful safety and health strategies and results while cultivating a culture aligned with the company's Principle Based Management philosophy and the Koch Safety Vision. The Director of Safety and Health will be responsible for providing safety and health support to the CPG operations. These responsibilities will include, facilitating the reduction of risk across the CPG Operations with a focus on reducing critical hazards and risk; Developing strategic plans that will be used as a baseline strategy across all CPG sites and will align with the overall GP objectives and strategies; partnering with sites and key stakeholders to reduce complexity, increase collaboration, share best practices, and improve organizational effectiveness. Our Team This position reports to the Consumer Products Group (CPG) Senior Director, Safety and Health and performs work across three of the CPG businesses (Retail, Northwest, Pro). What You Will Do Partner with our VP's of Operations to align interests, clearly communicate expectations, and foster an environment where safety is fully integrated into operations.Work closely with operations leadership to ensure understanding of the "organization accountability mental model" and facilitate exceptional safety leadership that captures the hearts and minds of our employees. Facilitate the development of an overall S&H strategic plan for the CPG business.Organize, schedule, and conduct site assessments or have structured conference calls with all sites to ensure that the CPG plan has been communicated and is well understood.Ensure that all locations are aligned with the strategic plan and are making satisfactory progress towards plan objectives. Provide additional support to sites that may need help in implementing strategies or achieving plan objectives.Ensure that CPG's safety talent position meets the organizational needs and develop that talent in a way that builds skill, aligns interests, and drives significant safety improvement.Work with the CPG and GP safety capability team and critical hazard risk reduction leaders to drive risk reduction across all 7 critical hazards. This includes a heavy focus on energy control and MOPED hazards.Work with sites to prioritize risks and to drive a consistent approach to the implementation of our path to zero plan.Utilize the GP Operating System to build additional structure and discipline into our risk management system (RMS). Work with site safety leaders to determine the strength of their site level RMS and support sites that need additional help.Facilitate the application of HOP concepts across the CPG business and work with HOP leaders, safety leaders, and mill mangers to develop a learning organization.Ensure the appropriate level of safety staffing at our CPG sites and develop those leaders in a way that improves engagement and alignment and drives a better understanding of our key objectives and strategies. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or Engineering. 5+ years' of experience managing safety in an industrial environment. Experience improving organizational effectiveness and safety performance across multiple sites. Experience leading Safety or Operations within a heavy industrial or manufacturing environment. Must travel domestically approximately 35% - 50% of the time. What Will Put You Ahead 10+ years' of experience managing safety in an industrial environment. Experience and knowledge in safety management systems and other mental models that help drive organizational effectiveness. Experience with Microsoft applications to include but not limited to creating charts, formatting, data entry, creating presentations and reports. 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, aqui, or tu).