Process Engineer / Process Safety Manager

Georgia-Pacific has an immediate opening for a Process Engineer/Process Safety Manager at our Palatka, FL facility. This will report to the Safety Manager. This is an opportunity to join an organization dedicated to excellence in safety excellence, continuous improvement, and innovation.  The selected individual will partner with operations teams and be responsible to lead facility process safety efforts.  The ideal candidate will possess an entrepreneurial spirit while providing leadership and strategic direction for Process Safety Management (PSM) across covered areas and balance of the facility. As a key leader within our mill operations team, the Process Engineer/Process Safety Leader has a specific focus on ensuring processes are designed, operated, and maintained for safety.  The Process Engineer/Process Safety Leader serves as a mentor for mill leadership and all employees to develop knowledge and appreciation for the value created by a process safety approach to managing operations.

Palatka is located just south of Jacksonville and west of St. Augustine, FL, the Palatka mill employs about 850 people has three tissue paper machines as well as two Kraft/Linerboard Paper Machines and produces consumer tissue products such as bath tissue and paper towels sold under the Georgia-Pacific brand names of Angel Soft®, Quilted Northern®, Brawny®, and Sparkle®.

Our culture at Georgia-Pacific is defined by the Market-Based Management^® philosophy, which guides everyday decision making and provides employees with opportunities to contribute and personally benefit from the value they create. If you are looking for a career where you can use your passion and skills to create value for our customers and society, we want to learn more about you!

A Day In The Life Typically Includes:

• Providing leadership and direction to achieve Process Safety excellence through management commitment and employee ownership
• Ensuring direct report(s) are supported, aligned with mill/department vision and goals, and given regular and appropriate feedback on performance
• Sharing the Process Safety vision and lead efforts to improve organizational process safety and chemical process safety culture and knowledge
• Ensuring employees understand expectations and exercise their decision rights regarding Process Safety/Chemical Process Safety
• Leading efforts to drive metrics, both performance based (i.e. leading indicators) and outcome based (i.e. trailing indicator)
• Leading a customer focused approach to partner with operations in reducing process safety risk
• Fostering Process Safety ownership within the organization through leadership, coordination, and coaching in accordance with the Compliance Standard(s) and Palatka Policies
• Assisting with the development and conduct of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying and evaluating hazards
• Driving improvement projects to completion to reduce identified risks
• Maintaining and improving the change management process
• Assisting facility leadership with the development of short and long-term Process Safety objectives, targets, strategies, and measures that prioritize and mitigate risks
• Ensuring the development, improvement, and implementation of training systems to meet compliance standard requirements
• Actively identifying Process Safety elements gaps and puts sustainable processes in place to close them
• Leading the Chemical Process Safety Steering Committee
• Working with employees at all levels and positively influence those outside of their line organization to meet element requirements
• Proactively working with the corporate Process Safety and compliance IT groups to make improvements to the corporate Process Safety processes and IT processes