Job Summary
Partners with leaders, employees, and multiple stakeholders to strengthen our safety culture and develop policies and processes, specific to a production center (PC) setting, protecting our most important assets: our employees, our customers, our communities, and our brands while ensuring the safety of our people, workplace and environment and meeting all company, legal and other requirements.
Responsibilities
What would success look like?
- Partners with the Plant Manager (as a direct report) to define, build, monitor, and continuously improve Liberty’s safety culture of “100% safe, 100% of the time”.
- Meets all regulatory and other stakeholder requirements specific to a production, warehouse, and distribution settings.
- Creates and develops training tools, processes, and other programs for our operations team, management, and our employees to improve safety capability, performance, and culture.
- Develop annual safety performance goals (LTIR, TRIR, WUR, EUR, etc.)
- Create management routines, audits, and inspections to significantly improve safety performance within strategic business functions.
- Develop and implement/roll out systems, policies, and routines which continuously assess risk, set goals, drive accountability, implement best practices, and monitor/improve company safety performance.
- Develop comprehensive multi-year safety strategies within each assigned PC and/or Business Function.
- Effective safety leader/SME, role model, and employee advocate who influences PC, DC, and Business Function employees and the site-specific teams.
- Creates PC, DC, and Business Function-specific safety metrics, measurements, scorecard, and reporting to significantly improve safety performance.
- Leverages data, assessments, and observations to identify risks, hazards, and root causes & corrective actions to prevent incidents and injuries.
- Completes and ensure safety reviews of all proposed plant projects/alterations, including but not limited to equipment safety reviews, equipment modifications, plant layout changes, etc..
- Issues stop work on any unsafe activities and ensure they are addressed appropriately.
- Beverage industry experience is an advantage.
- Passion for winning, relentless execution, and strong drive for results.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in safety Related Science (Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Safety Management, Risk Management, Engineering, or related discipline).
- Minimum of 3+ years of field Safety experience in a manufacturing setting.
- General Industry Trainings (OSHA 10, OSHA 30, HAZWOPER, etc.)
- Strong knowledge/background in QSE, consensus standards and regulatory compliance (OSHA, NFPA, ANSI, FMCSA/DOT, CDC, DOH, etc.).
- Strong background in auditing, including but not limited to ISO (14001, 45001, etc.) or other management systems
- Working knowledge of the principles of manufacturing management, food safety and Good Manufacturing Practices
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and coordinate efforts around process improvement.
Strongly Preferred
- Master’s degree in Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Safety Management, Safety Engineering, or related discipline.
- Safety designations such as CSP, ASP, ARM or CIH.
- 5+ years of management experience in the beverage industry.
- Experience with the Coca-Cola system, beverage industry, or consumer products
- Knowledge of Health, Sustainability, Environmental
- Strong ergonomics and EHS culture experience highly desired
- Additional Safety Certifications & Trainer Designations (First Aid/CPR/AED, Forklift/PIT, Defensive Driving, LOTO, Machine Guarding, 510 or 511 OSHA Instructor, etc.)
- Auditing Experience (ISO 45001, ISO 14001, etc.)
- OSHA VPP Experience
- Industrial Hygiene and Manufacturing Experience
- Consumer Goods, Food & Beverages Experience
- Food Safety Experience
- Lean/CI, Six-Sigma, OE
- Experience working in union environments
