Environmental Health & Safety Manager for Schreiber Foods
Job Description:As the Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager, you will lead efforts that drive towards a safe working environment for all Schreiber partners, customers, visitors and outside contractors. You will be responsible for the implementation of successful environmental and safety programs accomplished through coordination of Federal, State, and local regulations and by building a “safety comes first” attitude amongst Schreiber partners. You will have responsibility to work with plant leadership in leading the safety and environmental programs.
As the EHS Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing all Safety and Environmental training in the plant. You will work with hourly support staff to ensure that appropriate adult learning techniques are applied and appropriate checklists and other applicable learning tools (e.g. VWI’s, e-learning, classroom via vendors) are developed, updated, and utilized. You will measure the implementation and success of safety and environmental training techniques and methods.
In this position, you will be overseeing the Grand Rapids Michigan facility.
What you’ll do:
Compliance - Lead efforts to improve safety and environmental compliance for applicable programs. lead direct reports, leaders and partners that support the programs. Assess strengths and weaknesses of the plant’s safety,
Written Programs - Lead EHS team in development, maintenance and improvement of applicable Environmental, Health and Safety written programs.
Responsible for tracking and meeting deadlines for all Safety and Environmental Programs
Training - Oversee and administer Safety and Environmental training in the plant. This training will involve assuring the proper training of hourly and salary partners and overseeing the processes to properly document the training.
Inspections - Know and understand the Safety and Environmental SOPs. Lead as required (and as defined in the environmental and safety inspection SOPs) during regulatory agency inspections by external safety and/or environmental agencies or customers.
Incident Inspections - Work collaboratively with partners and leaders to identify root cause of incidents such as spills, safety incidents, recordable and other EHS issues
Stay current and attend required Safety and Environmental training to maintain required certifications.
Behavior Based Safety - Conduct partner safety observations (PSO) training for the leaders in the plant. Validate both quantity and quality of observations continuously improves.
Accountable for plant safety budget
Worker’s Comp - Work with HO Safety and plant HR to successfully drive plant worker's comp cases to resolution.
Projects - Participate in initiatives or projects outside of plant(s) responsibility on an as needed basis.
What you need to succeed:
High School diploma/GED plus License/ Certification Occupational Safety and Health plus 5 years of experience in creation and implementation of safety programs. Or;
Bachelor’s degree plus 3 years of experience in creation and implementation of safety programs.
Experience with creating training programs, conducting plant audits to identify regulatory improvement opportunities, ways to reduce potential injuries, and convey to plant leadership, generate reports of audit findings.
Ability to travel up to 15%
Eligible partners will receive:
Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits. When you join our employee-owned company, you’ll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one. That means in addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 10% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year. That’s a company contribution of around 18% in retirement savings annually!
Earn bonus pay. You’ll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
Earn $ for focusing on your health. Get up to $1,200 for your health savings account each year, plus get reimbursed for fitness membership, equipment or classes.
Pursue development that’s relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
Experience caring like you’ve never experienced it before. We have a program that’s completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It’s called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.
Learn more here.