Position Title: 

Safety Excellence Learning Manager

 

Pay Rate:

$142,000 - $160,000 (PL 16-18)

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

 

Category/Shift:

Salaried Full-Time

 

Physical Location:

6400 Poplar Avenue

Memphis, TN

 

The Job You Will Perform:

The Safety Excellence Learning Manager is responsible for driving the successful implementation and sustainment of two critical pillars within International Paper’s Safety Excellence strategy: Safety Leadership Development and Safe Decision-Making. This role will manage day-to-day project activities, coordinate training deployment, coach site-level stakeholders, and support leadership teams to embed new safety behaviors across the enterprise. This role will also develop a sustainable training model to reinforce adoption of new safety culture for new employees, refresher courses, and new trainers.

·         Lead implementation of Safety Leadership Development and Safe Decision-Making initiatives at the mill, regional, and enterprise level.

·         Partner closely with DEKRA consultants to align priorities, resources, timelines, and site-specific needs.

·         Track progress across 200+ sites, ensuring high-quality rollout of training and coaching touchpoints.

·         Reinforce core tools such as the Leadership Diagnostic Instrument (LDI), SafeAlign, and Making Safe Decisions modules.

·         Facilitate communication between pillar leads, governance teams, and site champions.

·         Monitor engagement, field feedback, and help resolve adoption barriers.

·         Contribute to overall project communications, reporting, and success metrics.

·         Support upgraded safety training by implementing a sustainable training model to be adopted by all sites for continuous learning and training.

 

The Skills You Will Bring: 

·         Bachelor’s degree required

·         5+ years of experience in safety, operations, HR and training, or organizational transformation.

·         Strong project management skills and experience coordinating large-scale training initiatives.

·         Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder alignment capabilities.

·         Ability to lead through influence and navigate matrixed environments.

·         Travel required (~20-40%).

 

The Benefits You Will Enjoy:

International Paper offers a benefits package that includes health, welfare and retirement plans including Medical, Dental, Life insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Short-term and Long-term Disability, 401(k), Company-funded retirement contributions, Paid Time Off, Education & Development (including Tuition Reimbursement), Student Loan Repayment Assistance, and Voluntary Benefits including insurance for home, auto, vision and pets. 

 

The Career You Will Build:

Leadership training, exposures, and advocating for safety culture changes

 

The Impact You Will Make:

We continue to build a better future for people, the planet, and our company! IP has been a good steward of sustainable practices across communities around the world for more than 120 years. Join our team and you’ll see why our team members say they’re Proud to be IP.

 

The Culture You Will Experience:

International Paper promotes employee well-being by providing safe, caring and inclusive workplaces. We have team members all around the world with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. These are our strengths. We are committed to creating a culture where all individuals are respected, valued, engaged and have an opportunity to do their best work every day. We invite you to bring your uniqueness, creativity, talents, experiences, and safety mindset to be a part of our increasingly inclusive and diverse culture.

 

The Company You Will Join:

International Paper (NYSE: IP) is the global leader in sustainable packaging solutions. With company headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, and EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) headquarters in London, UK, we employ more than 65,000 team members and serve customers around the world with operations in more than 30 countries. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Net sales for 2024 were $18.6 billion. In 2025, International Paper acquired DS Smith creating an industry leader focused on the attractive and growing North American and EMEA regions. Additional information can be found by visiting internationalpaper.com