Job Description
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.
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 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.
- Create management routines, audits, and inspections to significantly improve safety performance within strategic business functions.
- Develop annual safety performance goals (LTIR, TRIR, etc.)
- 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 for the assigned PC.
- Proven track history as a safety leader/SME, role model, and employee advocate who influences PC and Business Function employees and the site-specific teams.
- Creates PC 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.
Qualifications
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Willingness to learn or experience in regulatory compliance, incident management, and consumer affairs.
- Innovative, tech savvy, transformation leader
- Strong team leader and leader of self
- Strong collaborator who builds networks internally & externally for the company
- Effective verbal and written communication skills across a wide audience
- Effectively able to manage multiple projects and conflicting priorities
- Effective time management skills including planning, scheduling, and organizing
- Passion for winning, relentless execution, and strong drive for results.
- 10%-50% travel locally or nationally; some overnight required
- Safety professional certification (such as ASP, CSP, CIH, etc.).
Strongly Preferred
- Master’s degree in Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Safety Management, Safety Engineering, or related discipline.
- 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
- Consumer Goods, Food & Beverages Experience
- Food Safety Experience
- Lean/CI, Six-Sigma, OE
- Experience working in union environments
Job Tags
Work at office, Night shift,