Area Director, Safety

I. Job Summary

Responsible for the development and execution of all Safety strategic goals for the Upper Midwest Market Area in accordance with WM Safety Services guidance.

II. Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Function

• Corporate/Market Area Safety Strategy: Works closely with Corporate and Market Area Senior Leadership Teams to understand support and align safety strategy goals and objectives at both the Corporate and Market Area levels.
• Drive Cam System Management: Oversees manages and consults with Market Area and Site leaders on Drive Cam System Management. This includes analysis reporting coaching interventions and may include ride alongs with site managers and or front-line drivers.
• Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) Prevention Program Management: Identify reduce and ultimately eliminate tasks that present a high risk for serious injury and or fatality. Apply SIF logic to identify job tasks activities and situations that present a high SIF risk. Conduct Protection Validation Studies on each SIF situation to identify and close protection gaps.
• Safety Communications: Works closely with EH&S team to ensure appropriate dissemination and implementation of EH&S policies corporate safety communications and initiatives. Assesses risks and monitors Market Area safety trends to create and deploy appropriate safety awareness messaging.
• Incident Management: Determines severity and initiates formal investigation as necessary. Ensures all relevant incident data is captured in the WM EH&S portal. Creates and disseminates both qualitative and quantitative reports on Site and or Market Area incidents analyses. Works closely with Third Party Risk Administrator to ensure all required information is documented and transferred appropriately. Determines level of Root Cause Analysis to be performed. Works with People Team as required.
• District Specific Safety Plan: Analyzes incident trends and works close with both Market Area and Site Leadership to ensure DSSP is in place and operational.
• Hazardous Energy Control Program: Has oversight of the WM Hazardous Energy Control Program and is able to direct train and coach others on the relevant topics to ensure HECP protocols are being followed.
• Regulation (DOT OSHA etc.) Management: Has knowledge of Federal State/Provincial DOT/OSHA regulations as they pertain to WM operational requirements. Works closely with internal and external Subject Matter Experts to ensure WM is in adherence to all required standards and regulations.
• WM / Customer Facilities Compliance Management: Management capabilities to oversee site/safety management systems (e.g. fire protection/detection/alarms (burglar CNG etc.)). Can conduct reviews of new equipment installs. Ensures inclement weather / natural disaster preparedness plans are in place. Conducts Safety Audits / Inspections and assists with commercial insurance management issues.
• Safety Recognition Program Management: Establish performance criteria/thresholds and feedback mechanism for effectiveness evaluation.
• Employee Health Management: Works closely with Corporate Subject Matter Experts to ensure all sites are following the Medical Monitoring Program and are in adherence to the WM Industrial Hygiene Program Management.
• Personal Protective Equipment Management: Is considered the SME on WM PPE policies and procurement for their Market Area. Works closely with corporate supply chain to ensure Market Area is supplied appropriately.
• People Development (Safety specific): Must be able to constructively develop and coach others on overall risk management and safety topics. Provide developmental opportunities based upon incident investigations DriveCam events Employee Observations SIF Observations etc. to improve and advance their safety skills knowledge and performance.

• Employee Observations: Can coach and train market area safety specialists market area leaders (DMs RMS etc.) on safety trends from EH&S Portal DriveCam and SIF data to be use in conducting effective employee observations and coaching conversations.

III. Supervisory Responsibilities

The highest level of supervisory skills required in this job is the management of managerial employees. This includes:

• Direct & Indirect supervision of 9 full-time employees including: Safety Manager and Safety Specialists.
  

IV. Qualifications

A. Education and Experience

• Education: Bachelors Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree; High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant work experience
• Experience: 10 years in Safety or Operations Management. 3 yearsmanaging a team of two of more individuals.

C. Certificates Licenses Registrations or Other Requirements

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Preferred
• Certified Industrial Hygienist Preferred
• Professional Engineer (PE) License Preferred
• Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) Preferred
• Registered Environmental Manager (REM) Preferred
• Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) Preferred

V. Work Environment

Listed below are key points regarding environmental demands and work environment of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

• Required to use motor coordination with finger dexterity (such as keyboarding machine operation etc.) most of the work day;
• Required to exert physical effort in handling objects less than 30 pounds rarely;
• Required to be exposed to physical occupational risks (such as cuts burns exposure to toxic chemicals etc.) occasionally;
• Required to be exposed to physical environment which involves dirt odors noise weather extremes or similar elements occasionally;
• Normal setting for this job is in the field.
  

Benefits

At WM each eligible employee receives a competitive total compensation package including Medical Dental Vision Life Insurance and Short-Term Disability. As well as a Stock Purchase Plan Company match on 401K and more! Our employees also receive Paid Vacation Holidays and Personal Days. Please note that benefits may vary by site.

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