Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Your seat at the table!

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. Creation and implementation of a safety strategy for the plant will be required. Sharing key learnings, issues, opportunities, and best practices as an active contributor to the Safety Community across the plant network and building relationships with peers and cross-functional partners will be critical to success.

Reporting Structure :  This role reports to the EHS Director

Core Responsibilities :

• 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
• 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.
• Lead programs, training, and messaging to recognize, reward and promote safe behaviors throughout the facility - catch our associates doing things right.
• 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.
• Strong sense of urgency around communication and proactive approach to issues and concerns.
• 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 (may be ergonomic, PM issues, training gaps, etc.)
• Help 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
• Coaching and Leading others
• Caring positive approach, influencing, and motivating others
• Whole systems thinking
• Managing projects and processes

What you bring to the table

Company Description

Snak King is one of the largest snack food manufacturers in the United States. Our family of branded snacks can be found in various outlets including convenience stores, grocery stores, club stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, vending machines, institutional food service operations, and airlines.

With an unwavering commitment to high quality and customer service, we also produce and package snacks for many of the world's major food companies and retailers.

Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and our innovative R&D team keep Snak King on the cutting edge of new product development.

Company Description

Snak King is one of the largest snack food manufacturers in the United States. Our family of branded snacks can be found in various outlets including convenience stores, grocery stores, club stores, mass merchandisers, drug stores, vending machines, institutional food service operations, and airlines.\r\n\r\nWith an unwavering commitment to high quality and customer service, we also produce and package snacks for many of the world's major food companies and retailers.\r\n\r\nOur state-of-the-art manufacturing facility and our innovative R&D team keep Snak King on the cutting edge of new product development.