Director of Safety; Prepared Foods BU

Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued team Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms team. We offer the experience of a large organization; however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage team Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Salary Range: $147,450 - $196,600 per year

To create a safe, healthy, and positive working environment at the Business Unit level for all Foster Farms’ team members. Responsible for the Prepared Foods Business Unit compliance with local, state, federal and corporate regulations pertaining to health and safety concerns (HS). Developing, implementing, and managing all H&S policies and procedures. Support Prepared Foods Business Unit with managing incident investigations, tracking H&S metrics, workplace inspections, and recommending program modification or corrective actions pertaining to H&S issues at a division level.

This position provides safety leadership and strategic direction by leading the operations’ safety continuous improvement efforts at the division level. The Director of Safety will support and advise management on safety systems and compliance.

The essential functions of this position are those described below. This job description does not state or imply that the functions listed are the only functions and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employees holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by Prepared Foods Business Unit management or corporate management.

• Have indirect reporting for multi-site safety teams
• Develop, implement, and enforce governing safety and health policies and procedures and conduct incident investigations to ensure “root cause(s)” have been identified and that appropriate corrective action has been completed by the corresponding site.
• Provide strategic guidance and coaching to the Prepared Foods Business Unit Safety Team.
• Mentor Safety Team, team members, and management to develop a positive safety culture throughout the complex.
• Maintain and analyze safety related data to develop trends and action plans. Prepare and deliver reports for management and guide safety committees.
• Perform safety audits and inspections of the Prepared Foods Business Unit operations, as well as track findings and assign corrective actions to ensure closure.
• Prepare and deliver selected H&S trainings and programs to ensure compliance with local and federal regulations.
• Assist the Environmental Department when needed, enforce and monitor compliance with environmental programs for the facility; programs include Air Quality, Pesticide, Hazardous Material, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Wastewater and Drinking Water & Storm Water Programs
• Inspect equipment, working conditions, and maintain OSHA files and supporting documents required by municipal, State and Federal regulations.
• Report any potential violations and recommend corrections, as needed.
• Communicates safety procedure changes to Business Partners through several conduits including staff meetings, safety huddles, postings, and interpersonal communication.
• Ensures all health safety policies, procedures, and practices are reviewed on an annual basis or as changes and updates are required by practices or regulation and are rolled‑out in a timely manner.
• Follow and abide by Foster Farms Corporate requirements or mandates.
• Reviews all safety documents, policies, procedures, and incident reports. Drive change through developing corrective actions related to root cause, indirect cause, and direct cause, as well as providing training on corrective actions to affected Team members.
• Support investigations of all safety-related incident reviews and incident…