Job Description

Responsibilities:  This position is responsible for maintaining a world-class safety culture through continuously monitoring and improving practices and processes. It leads all safety & security efforts for the manufacturing complex and affiliated field operations, manages live production and garage safety in conjunction with the non-collocated safety director, and manages safety for live production and garage/transportation operations non-manufacturing facilities located within the vicinity of the primary assignment. Specifically:

• Directly leads & manages daily activities and personnel matters of the facility and its safety department personnel
• Leads facility security team/guard force in managing security
• Provides technical expertise for cross functional teams to ensure safe operational processes and capital/engineering projects.
• Collaborates with functional experts in vehicle safety, corporate security, environmental, PSM, and other areas to align facility activities and objectives.
• Provides interpretations for OSHA, NFPA, DHS, DOT, and other pertinent regulations to ensure processes and policies comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Leads site safety business plan development by analyzing relevant data and tracking/reporting facility and corporate KPIs/metrics.  
• Validates plan’s actions through internal safety and security auditing tracking findings through closure.
• Provides training support to the organization and ensures that all required safety and security training is effectively completed on time.
• Ensures effective investigations on all safety and security incidents are completed, participating actively during complex and high impact investigations. Ensures root cause is determined and appropriate corrective actions developed, tracking recommendations to closure.  
• Utilizes incident data to develop action plans to address hazards and emerging trends.
• Liaisons for 3rd party assessments, audits, & inspections, i.e. insurance carrier, local fire department, risk engineering firms, OSHA, DHS, etc.\

Requirements:  A Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Safety & Health, or Industrial Health Management, or Occupational Health & Safety IS REQUIRED.  A Master’s Degree is preferred. Additional requirements include:

• 5+ years of experience in manufacturing safety management.  
• Demonstrated experience leading a world-class safety program which has achieved <1.0 TRIR.
• Industrial & food safety health knowledge
• Thorough knowledge of OSHA requirements
• Supervisory experience including supervising off-site personnel
• Proven ability to lead and influence others. Ability to establish positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience implementing behavioral-based safety techniques to improve/maintain safety performance.
• 40-hour HAZWOPER certification and current annual 8-hour HAZWOPER refresher.
• CPR/First Aid certification or willingness to obtain.
• Bilingual (French and/or Spanish) is preferred
• Multi-site safety management experience.

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