Safety Technician - Madison, GA

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Madison (GA); On-site; USD 27,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This hands-on role spends time in a manufacturing environment coaching employees, supporting compliance efforts, and ensuring critical safety systems remain effective.

Qualifications

• Two+ years in safety or related hands-on field.
• Experience identifying hazards and training support.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• CPR/AED/First Aid certification required.

Responsibilities

• Identify hazards and coach safe work practices.
• Conduct safety observations, inspections, audits, risk assessments.
• Coordinate and deliver safety training for employees, contractors, visitors, and new hires.
• Assist with incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective actions.
• Maintain safety documentation, training records, metrics, and required compliance records.
• Support contractor safety, onboarding activities, and site compliance expectations.

Skills

Safety experience

MS Office

Communication

Hazard identification

Training delivery

Education

Assoc degree in OSH

Job description

Your Job

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.

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:00 AM-4:30 PM (flexibility required) Pay: Starting at $24.00/hour, with higher pay based on qualifications and experience.

Our Team

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.

What You'll Do

• 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.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 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

What Will Put You Ahead

• 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 certifications.
• Experience applying Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles.
• Experience influencing, coaching, and building strong working relationships across departments.

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.

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.