Safety & Compliance Manager

Safety Manager

Your career grows here. At Echo Electric, a brand owned by Sonepar, we are a leader in electrical distribution. Echo Electric represents over $1.2 billion in sales covering Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, and Southern South Dakota. As part of Sonepar, the worldwide leader in electrical distribution, we have a global reach that allows us to offer excellent benefits and develop innovative solutions, while maintaining our strong local roots and close-knit culture. We empower our associates to contribute to our success by adopting the adapt, dare, learn mindset adapt to new situations and people, dare to appropriately challenge the status quo, and learn from others and our own experiences.

Our 5 legacy brands known as Holt, PEPCO, Richards, and Springfield Electric have become one brand moving forward with a shared culture, strategy, and vision. We are now going to the market under one bold new brand, Echo Electric.

Primary Function

Provide safety leadership, implement safety initiatives, and improve safety performance through training and interaction with all associates to help ensure compliance with established corporate safety standards, policies and procedures that align with local, state, and federal regulations. Reduce risk by implementing the 5S method.

As a Safety Manager you will :

• Leadership of safety and compliance team providing effective delegation of responsibilities, workload monitoring, associate training / development, and performance management.
• Define, write, communicate and work to continuously improve Echo Electric's safety program by establishing strong working relationships with management and associates that will ensure Echo Electric safety compliance.
• Create prescriptive education designed to reduce injuries and days away from work. Provide an annual safety report to the Leadership Team that includes initiatives and location specific safety performance.
• Collaborate with Human Resources and Sonepar to provide organizational safety education and compliance management through the learning management system.
• Create strategies to consistently improve TRIR, DART, and DAFW cases. Actively participate as a member of the Sonepar Central Region Safety Team.
• Act as corporate point of contact for accident reporting. Assist with the investigation of accidents, associate injuries, incidents and near misses to understand and recommend workplace safety improvements.
• Partner closely with Human Resources and 3rd party administrators on workers compensation claims and associate accidents when injury occurs.
• Complete monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements (regulatory and Sonepar USA). Serve as the site contact for all applicable regulatory agencies.
• Conduct periodic safety inspections and audits of all Echo Electric locations to identify unsafe conditions or practices, monitor safety programs are being followed and compliance records are in place.
• Develop and publish locally accurate evacuation and building security plans. Partner with the Operations Manager in building security including card access and video surveillance.
• Manage the adherence of OSHA Power Industrial Truck requirements companywide. Support training of new associates along with maintaining accurate recordkeeping of training for all operators.
• Perform all assigned duties in a professional and ethical manner in accordance with Echo Electric policies.
• Participates in and follows all Echo policies, guidelines, and procedures (safety, Anti-Harassment, Ethics, etc.)
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum work experience requirements : 5+ years progressive safety and compliance experience.

Minimum education requirements : Bachelor's degree or equivalent safety / compliance experience

Core Competencies :

Ability to demonstrate and model individual contributor and first level manager behaviors defined for each core competency.

Functional Competencies :

General Requirements :

Work Environment :

Working conditions are normal for an office environment and will work in an operations environment at times as well as significant travel.

What we offer :

Medical, dental, and vision insurance plus employer paid short term and long-term disability and life insurance. Paid time off and paid holidays 401K match Profit Sharing Tuition reimbursement and employee development. Annual Safety Shoe Reimbursement Employee Discount on products Access to a variety of trainings for personal development

Who we are :

We're the world's number one distributor of electrical products, solutions and related services. Echo Electric is owned by Sonepar, a global company with over 500 locations nationwide. Whether you grow at one of our local Opcos or at one in another region, we want you to grow with us! All associates are regularly trained and we value promoting from within when possible.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement Sonepar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other categories protected by federal, state or local law.