Safety Manager

Job Title: Safety Manager
Job ID: 77662
Location: Franklin, Virginia


What you will be doing:

• Oversees the Health & Safety program of the mill

• Manages Health Services, Fire Protection and Emergency Response activities

• Develop, implement, and maintain effective systems, procedures and training to achieve an injury free work environment

• Prioritize actions which minimize Significant Injury & Fatality potential events.  Ensure team has a focus on these actions over all others.

• Manage multiple area Hourly Safety Coordinators that support the culture of knowing how work is getting done and building safety programs with a Human Organizational Performance (HOP) mentality in mind.

• Build a culture of completing Drift Assessments across the mill to proactively identify and improve how we complete tasks.

• Oversee investigations for near misses and injuries ensuring mill team digs into root causes with a 5-why methodology.

• Identify trends, emerging issues, and develop improvement strategies to solve issues

• Establish preventative health and safety programs to identify and reduce risk from potential hazards in the workplace

• Coordinate Industrial Hygiene Monitoring activities for noise and chemical exposure

• Integrate continuous improvements in the health and safety systems and drive employee engagement to achieve desired results

• Maintaining compliance with OSHA logs and requirements

• Serve as the Process Safety Management Coordinator

• Have excellent knowledge and understanding of mill operations

• Work with corporate H&S Staff to develop and implement the company's Global Performance Standards

• Identify and implement deliberate and continuous improvement activities to manage and reduce risk

 
What you must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety or technical discipline with significant related experience and exposure to OSHA general industry requirements

• At least 5 years of Occupational Health and Safety experience in a pulp/paper industry

• At least 2 years of experience in an International Paper facility preferred

• Expertise in Process Safety Management (PSM) considered a plus

• CSP and/or CIH certification considered a plus

For more information about TEEMA and to consider other career opportunities, please visit our website at www.teemagroup.com