Safety Manager--Hybrid
Safety Manager--Hybrid
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USD 85000 - 120000
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Job Description
Christensen Farms is one of the largest familyowned pork producers in the United States marketing approximately 3 million hogs per year. Headquartered in Sleepy Eye Minnesota the company operates throughout the Midwest with facilities in Minnesota Iowa Nebraska Illinois and South Dakota. Christensen Farms owns four feed mills manages 145000 sows on 44 farms and oversees more than 350 nurseries and growfinish sites. The company employees nearly 1000 people and maintains 1500 contract partnerships.
Position Overview & Responsibilities:
The Safety Manger is responsible for ensuring the safety health and wellbeing of CF employees. Ability to design implement and monitor effective programs and initiatives to reduce safetyrelated incidents is critical for success in the role. The Manager will be expected to provide long and shortterm strategies to ensure that each department they are responsible for maintains programs which continuously improve the approach to promote and protect the health and safety of CF employees. It will be essential to build strong relationships and be able to collaborate effectively with managers supervisors and other partners both within and outside the organization to achieve the desired results. It is expected that the individual in this role will be highly motivated to provide solutions and execute efficiently with a high degree of detail for follow through.
What You Will Do:
- Lead and coordinate development of employee health and safety programs.
- Provide leadership to the safety committee through relevant expertise guidance and decision making as required.
- Assemble and analyze safety incident data and routinely provide statistical information to executives department leaders safety committee members and management.
- Advise CFs leadership team on strategic safety issues and develop associated risk management solutions.
- Ensure compliance with corporate safety programs OSHA Workers Compensation and DOT laws and regulations via reporting and site visits. Assist management with development of corrective action.
- Provide procedures for proper investigation and reporting of safety incidents. Ensures that all incidents are fully investigated.
- Conduct audits as required.
- Provides programs to train managers supervisors and employees to implement safety programs including safety orientation for new employees and current staff injury prevention operational controls development and job hazard analysis.
- New supervisor training required such as monthly inspection near miss reporting etc.
- CPR/First Aid/Defensive driving programs.
- Recommend implement deliver and maintain corporate safety training programs related to the departments they support i.e. process safety management hazard communication confined space blood borne pathogens electrical safety emergency response personal protective equipment lock out/tag out hearing conservation respiratory protection and MSDS.
- Respond to requests to participate in site inspections and audits with/by insurance company representatives government agencies and CF auditors.
- Represent the organization in community activities or industry safety groups and programs.
- Maintenance of applicable certifications and qualifications as required.
What You Offer Us:
- Minimum formal education required: Bachelors Degree or related experience.
- 5 years of safety and health leadership experience in a production environment.
- Specialized Training requirements: OSHA certification preferred.
What We Offer You:
- A strong leadership career track with opportunities to grow.
- We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health dental vision a flexible spending account (FSA) life insurance shortterm disability longterm disability a 401(k) plan paid holidays paid time off bank an employee assistance program (EAP) and more.
- Be an active part of an organization that gives back to the community in many waysincluding feed programs that support local farms food shelf programs food support for veterans agriculture education and promotion FFA/4H support charitable contributions etc.
- A company that has a passionate purpose for food safety animal welfare and for living its core values every dayrespect integrity excellence adaptability and innovation.
- A culture that fosters employee growth hybrid work options promotion from within and a highly teamoriented workplace environment.
- The targeted base pay range for this role is: $85000 to $120000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge skills and experience.
Reports to:
- Director of Safety
Supervision of Others:
Direct: None
Indirect: None
Christensen Farms is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to select the most qualified person for each position in the organization. No employee of CF will discriminate against any applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race color religion sex national origin disability citizenship status genetic information age sexual orientation gender identity military status veteran status or any other prohibited basis under applicable local state or federal law.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
