Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

Description

TITLE:
Environmental, Health & Safety Manager

REPORTS TO:
Plant Director

LOCATION:
Tulare, CA

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career?

At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

Lactalis is the world leader in dairy—a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Every day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day.

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Break stone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—
Ambition
, Engagement
, and Simplicity
. We’re building a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY
, and how your EXPERTISE can help us make an impact.

From your PASSION to ours

The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager will manage the Environmental, Health & Safety Programs at the plant. The EHS Manager will partner with the site leadership team and the corporate EHS team to manage activities involved in establishing and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment by following OSHA requirements and other recognized guidelines and regulations.

From your EXPERTISE to our

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Partner with the Corporate Director of EHS to establish and execute an effective portfolio of strategies and plans that promote employee awareness, reduce/eliminate accidents, and risks, and actively monitor overall safety performance in the organization to achieve excellence in safety.
• Partner with site teams to implement company EHS programs; engaging and involving all workers to understand and employ safety, environmental and security policies, and programs.
• Provide counsel and floor support to site teams for safety, health and environmental questions, concerns, identification, and control of hazards, recommending best/better practices.
• Leads the development of risk assessment methods/systems for anticipating, identifying, evaluating, and reducing hazards.
• Partner with the Corporate Director of EHS on the prioritization or reduction of TF1 and TF2 incidents through appropriate education, training and rigorous safety measures.
• Lead and manage the incident management and near miss program, investigating incidents, determining root causes, and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Facilitate the safety committee team, providing guidance, overseeing safety inspections, meetings and task list follow-up.
• Responsible for the administration of the workers compensation program at the plant. Ensures completion of First Reports of Injury and other records, maintains contact with workers’ compensation carrier and ensures reports are submitted timely. Proactively conducts ergonomic assessments and makes recommendation to reduce risk. Collaborates with HR on accommodations and return to work programs.
• Involved in chemical and hazardous materials management programs (i.e., Process Safety Management, Ammonia Refrigeration Management Program, etc.). Ensures Safety Data Sheets are
• Lead environmental programs established within the organization to include recycling of all office wastes in accordance with program guidelines, initiate power conservation techniques by turning off lights and computers when not in use.
• Partners with the Corporate Director of EHS to implement the environmental control strategies…