Safety Manager - Salisbury, United States - Perdue Farms

Description

Our Salisbury, MD plant is looking for a strong Environmental, Heath and Safety Manager to join their team. The Safety and Security Manager leads safety & security efforts for assigned Salisbury manufacturing facility by maintaining a world-class culture through continually improving safety processes. Technical expert partnering with operation leadership to deliver operational results through impactful safety, health, and security solutions.

Principal and Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads all safety & security efforts for Salisbury manufacturing facility with 600 associates.
• Directly leads & manages daily activities and personnel matters of 2 facility hourly/salaried safety personnel and 7 security contract personnel to ensure resources are effectively and consistently employed in the organization.
• Leads facility security team/guard force in managing security processes to include: developing/ administering site security practices and policies, supporting and tracking required key performance indicators including training objectives, and timely completion of site surveys and or audits.
• 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.
• Interacts regularly with the hourly work force to promote safety awareness and works to resolve their safety issues and concerns.
• Leads site safety business plan development by analyzing relevant data and tracking/reporting facility and corporate KPIs/metrics. Validates plans actions through internal safety and security auditing tracking findings through closure.
• Provides training support to the organization and ensures that all required safety training is effectively completed on time.
• Ensures effective investigations on all safety and security incidents are completed, participating actively during complex and high impact investigation.
• Ensure 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.
• Member of the incident command team and required to respond and or direct emergency response activities.
• Liaisons for 3rd party assessments, audits, & inspections, i.e. insurance carrier, local fire department, risk engineering firms, OSHA, DHS, etc.
• Maintains working relationship with permanent and temporary contractors to validate their safe work practices and supports their activities to maintain a superior safety environment at the facility.
• Builds relationship with occupational health to improve worker safety, associate wellness, and case management for supported sites. Actively involved in workers compensation, assisting the occupational health nurse/third party administrator in effectively managing all open claims.
• Keeps the management team informed of any safety, health, and security related issues and/or concerns identified within scope of responsibility.

Minimum Education

• Bachelors degree in safety, or related field.

Experience Requirements

• 2-3 years of progressively increasing safety & security responsibility with 1-2 years related experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to self-direct work with minimal guidance and oversight.
• Requires strong leadership skills and the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with hourly workforce, technical personnel, senior management, contractors, and regulatory agencies.
• Strong written and oral communication skills with proficient use of Microsoft office suite.
• Ability to analyze and synthesize data to support safety initiatives.
• Highly developed planning and organization skills.
• Detailed knowledge of health and safety regulations issued by OSHA, workers compensation and other governmental agencies.

Experience Preferred

• 7+ years of progressively increasing safety & security responsibility with 3 - 5 years related experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Multi-facility industrial safety experience; direct personnel management experience, professional safety or security certifications; bi-lingual capabilities; expert knowledge of health and safety disciplines as related to food processing.

Environmental Factors and Physical Requirements

• Position requires occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
• Day travel to nearby locations sometimes required.
• Ability to support on multiple shifts required as need.
• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
• May need to access files, supplies, and equipment.
• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
• When in a plant environment:
• Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors which include metal and plastic grating surfaces.
• May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with both ambient and 100% humidity.
• May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db.
• May be exposed to all chemicals used in poultry, food, processing facility.
• Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company.