Safety Manager

Posted Friday, November 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Vanceboro, NC

$94,500 – $126,000

Multiple factors, including Individual experience, skills and abilities will determine where an employee is ultimately placed in the pay range.

Safety Manager is a Leadership resource within the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) team in a fully integrated pulp and paper mill. This position will be responsible for managing health and safety technical and regulatory support and program development for the New Bern mill. They manage the systems in a mill to prevent occupational injuries and illnesses and to maintain compliance with U.S. health and safety regulations.

The position reports to the Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager.

• The Safety Manager will work closely with a variety of different areas throughout the mill including operations, maintenance, and management.
• Provide visible and active leadership in delivering excellent safety results
• Train salaried and hourly employees to develop safety leadership skills in the department and/or mill; promote the use of safety leadership skills and provide feedback to leaders on their use of the skills.
• Manage the safety team and help develop safety coordinators throughout the mill
• Maintain strong relationships with other EHS team members as well as operating and maintenance department leaders
• Influence Business Unit operations teams to incorporate health and safety systems and processes
• Support operations through planned and annual outage support
• Identify and implement health and safety best practices from across the mill, business, and company
• Assign and track all safety activities, corrective action plans and tasks to completion and update as needed; maintain appropriate documentation
• Assess facility programs against performance standards and develop corrective action plans to close gaps
• Manage leading indicator efforts including safety leadership, contract coordinator training, gap closures and observation processes
• Lead and maintain Contractor safety effort; assist in development of contractor work plans and monitor compliance
• Manage energy control, hearing conservation and chemical management programs
• Participate in required internal and external EHS audits and inspections; coordinate and review results to ensure deficiency correction
• Lead incident investigations, complete investigation files, develop corrective action plans
• Participate and support joint safety committee
• Maintain files, permits, inspections, and certifications
• Implement systems to improve/sustain results
• Manage the mill safety program by coordinating activities of the employee based safety team, conducting observations, evaluating and improving the effectiveness of site programs, leading hazard assessments and applying the hierarchy of controls to reduce exposure risk.
• Manage the mill industrial hygiene program by performing qualitative exposure assessments, developing exposure monitoring strategies, conducting comprehensive exposure monitoring and assisting with the development of exposure control recommendations.
• Develop and conduct health and safety training for the mill employees and management. Assist with scheduling, reviewing, preparing, documenting and tracking employee health and safety training sessions.
• Implement and manage health and safety standards and program elements (e.g., hazard communication, powered industrial trucks, confined spaces, personal protective equipment section, and moving equipment).

Successful candidate should have the ability to:

• Instill safety as a core value within the team and effectively communicate a shared vision for safety
• Quickly develop thorough knowledge of mill equipment and systems
• Utilize excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate to groups and individuals at all levels
• Approach positional responsibilities in an inclusive manner by engaging all team members in area, department, and mill
• Understand Human Organization Performance and effective use of the tools to drive safety culture to resiliency
• Utilize the change management processes to drive…