Sr. Health & Safety Specialist
Sr. Health & Safety Specialist
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Job Description
The Senior Health and Safety Specialist is responsible for partnering with Team USA market leadership teams to execute health and safety policies and ensure compliance with applicable local regional and federal regulations. They work with Team USA leadership teams to create a culture of safety to monitor and coach safety action items and follow up on auto accidents and safety incidents to ensure appropriate action is taken. They lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce risk in our processes to ensure a safe working environment.
The Senior Health and Safety Specialist builds strong relationships with the Team USA market leadership team. They understand safety programs and can articulate them clearly to achieve operational buy in and ownership while supporting Team USA market leadership in leading safety initiatives that increase team member involvement. They provide relevant risk assessments and safety data analysis to center leaders partnering with them to develop mitigation plans.
The Senior Health and Safety Specialist encourages requests and leverages feedback to identify and remove barriers and safety concerns. They identify and appropriately escalate safety incidents to site and regional teams to drive awareness and highlight opportunities for policy improvement.
Main responsibilities
- Proactively conduct regular risk assessments and partner with market leadership to implement solutions to reduce exposure to risks and prevent injury. Share identified risks and solutions across the Team USA markets.
- Assist markets leaders in the implementation of health and safety policies. Educate market leadership and team members on their responsibilities under each policy to proactively identify and remove potential hazards/safety concerns.
- Audit recordkeeping practices and case entries to ensure compliance with company policy and local regulations.
- Supporting markets through auto accident investigations root cause analyses preventability determination and corrective action processes to reduce the number of occurrences.
- Analyze safety metrics and review incident trends for actionable insights and work with market leadership to develop/execute improvement plans.
- Serve as a technical resource for health and safety regulations for Team USA and provide oversight to facilitate compliance with all applicable company H&S policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications :
- Degree in Environmental Health & Safety or a related field (or no degree with 2 years of experience leading people or cross-functional projects).
- Knowledge and experience in federal state and local health & safety regulations.
- 5 years of increasing responsibilities in Health and Safety including managing OSHA issues preferably in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
- Experience with multi-site multi-state safety responsibilities
- Experience in incident reduction through education guidance and influence with key stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate within and across departments.
- Ability to influence and partner with different levels of leadership.
- Experience in compiling analyzing data & trend analysis.
- Excellent analytical skills with demonstrated problem-solving ability and computer skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Professional certification (ASP NEBOSH IDpl etc.).
- Experience in a food production / distribution environment
- Experience with supporting organizational culture change.
Additional Information :
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
