Safety Technician - Madison, GA

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Georgia-Pacific's Madison Plywood facility is now hiring a Health & Safety Technician to help create a safe, compliant, and productive workplace. In this role, you'll partner with employees, supervisors, and contractors to identify hazards, support safety programs, investigate incidents, and promote continuous improvement across the facility.

This is a hands-on position with significant time spent in the manufacturing environment coaching employees, supporting compliance efforts, and helping ensure critical safety systems remain effective.

Georgia-Pacific's Madison Plywood facility is a leading manufacturer within our Building Products division. We are committed to creating long-term value through operational excellence, employee development, and a strong culture of safety and continuous improvement.

• Partner with employees, supervisors, and contractors to identify hazards, coach safe work practices, and reduce workplace risk.
• Conduct safety observations, inspections, audits, and risk assessments to support OSHA compliance and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate and deliver safety training for employees, contractors, visitors, and new hires.
• Assist with incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
• Maintain safety documentation, training records, metrics, and required compliance records.
• Support contractor safety, onboarding activities, and site compliance expectations.
• Help manage critical safety programs, including machine guarding, hazardous energy control (LOTO), fall protection, confined spaces, powered industrial vehicles, PPE, and other high-risk processes.
• Support inspections and maintenance coordination for life-safety equipment, including gas detection systems, eyewash stations, AEDs, fire extinguishers, and emergency response equipment.
• Assist with emergency preparedness, seasonal safety initiatives, and environmental risk reduction efforts.
• Serve as a trusted safety resource by building strong relationships across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in an industrial manufacturing environment with a flexible schedule, including overtime, weekends, holidays, or on-call support as needed.
• Willing and able to work in industrial environments and flexible schedules, including weekends, holidays, overtime, and on-call assignments as needed.

• Two (2) or more years of experience in safety, manufacturing, industrial operations, maintenance, construction, military, emergency response, or a related hands‑on environment.
• Experience identifying hazards, communicating risk reduction strategies, and supporting safety training, inspections, audits, or compliance activities.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Experience communicating with multiple levels of operations
• Experience managing multiple responsibilities and maintaining confidentiality.
• Experience supporting seasonal safety initiatives such as heat stress prevention, severe weather preparedness, emergency response drills, or environmental risk management.
• Obtain and maintain CPR/AED/First Aid certification as a condition of employment

• Associate degree or higher in Occupational Safety & Health, Environmental Science, Industrial Technology, Emergency Management, Business, or a related field.
• Three (3) or more years of health and safety experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Experience conducting incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action tracking.
• Experience supporting OSHA compliance programs, critical risk management initiatives, and contractor safety programs.
• Experience facilitating classroom and field-based safety training.
• Experience with gas detection systems, life-safety equipment, and emergency response programs.
• Experience leading seasonal safety preparedness initiatives and employee engagement campaigns.
• CPR/AED/First Aid Instructor or other train-the-trainer…