Environment, Health and Safety Manager

Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Overview:
Our client is a leading manufacturer of salty snacks, cookies, and crackers. Specializing in private label and co-manufacturing, the company is the largest supplier of private brand salty snacks and second-largest supplier of private brand cookies and crackers.

With a strong focus on innovation, service, quality, and sustainability, the company has been awarded the food industry’s highest award for environmental sustainability, as well as multiple Supplier of the Year awards.

Responsibilities

This role is a part of the senior team at the plant and is accountable for leading a comprehensive safety and wellness process using a proactive approach.

Creating a Safety Culture, where our associates’ safety and well-being is always the #1 priority. This highly energized, on-the-floor leader will engage with associates daily, help lead safety messaging and stretching exercises during shift meetings and work cross-functionally to ensure safety training and compliance is very effective.

• Lead a caring safety culture that is focused on people.
• Lead processes necessary to ensure a safe working environment – every shift, every day
• Lead the facility to meet or exceed established corporate safety goals aligned with business needs.
• Creation and implementation of a Safety Strategy for the plant
• Lead processes necessary to be compliant with applicable federal, state and local safety requirements and remain current on changing requirements; handle any applicable audits or OSHA visits
• Drive strong accountability with leaders to be role models of safe behaviors.
• Lead programs to correct unsafe acts and unsafe conditions with the workplace.
• Work collaboratively with the Site Director, HR and Worker’s Compensation/Leave Experts (both in the plant and at the support center) on all decisions related to injuries, leaves, reasonable accommodations/return to work, discipline and leave case management.
• Stay apprised on trends and best practices – both across the network and within the marketplace and the Safety Community
• Ensure relevant data, compliance records & training, postings, procedures and reporting is complete, accurate and in compliance. Extract insights from our data to identify trends/issues/opportunities and create a plan to address those insights
• Build high performing teams, develop and retain top talent
• Financial Controls and Budgeting:
  Responsible for providing leadership and guidance to maintain a safety budget with an emphasis on practical business and financial responsibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety, operations, engineering, business or related field is preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in EHS is required.
• Experience influencing and training large manufacturing teams and management to promote and lead by example a safe work environment and to always remain in compliance with all legal and company safety regulations.
• Ability to lead others – servant leadership style is the best fit for our culture.
• Knowledge of OSHA, Logout Tagout, Machine Guarding and other State/Federal requirements
• Ability and willingness to work flexible schedule.
• Experience building high performing teams, develop and retain top talent
• Caring positive approach, influencing and motivating others