Full-time

Description

TITLE: Environmental, Health & Safety Supervisor

REPORTS TO: EHS Manager

LOCATION: Tulare, CA

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Tulare, CA.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis Heritage Dairy: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours

The Environmental, Health & Safety Supervisor (EHS) will partner with the EHS Manager to develop and implement EHS programs that promote employee awareness, reduce/eliminate accidents, and risks, and actively monitor overall safety performance in the organization to achieve excellence in safety.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

Collaborate with the EHS Manager to implement company EHS programs; engaging and involving all workers to understand and employ safety, environmental and security policies, and programs.
Administer the incident management and near-miss program, investigating incidents, determining root causes, and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
Provide counsel and floor support to site teams for safety, health and environmental questions, concerns, identification, and control of hazards, recommending best/better practices.
Lead the environmental programs established within the organization to include recycling of all office waste in accordance with program guidelines, initiate power conservation techniques by turning off lights and computers when not in use.
Perform onsite testing/monitoring to ensure compliance within environmental parameters.
Serves as a secondary point of contact for all Local, State and Federal EH&S related inquiries.
Assist the EHS Manager with maintaining, monitoring, and reporting on all EHS performance metrics.
Develop, train and conduct site EHS meetings, training, and coaching programs to ensure understanding of EHS compliance with employees, supervisors and site leadership.
Develop action plans to address deficiencies within the EHS Programs and work with site teams to identify corrective actions.
Perform Job Safety Analyses, PPE assessments and make recommendations for improvement.
Ensure the worker’s compensation program is administered according to company guidelines. Completes First Reports of Injury and other records, maintains contact with workers’ compensation carrier and ensures reports are submitted timely. Proactively conducts ergonomic assessments and makes recommendation to reduce risk. Collaborates with HR on accommodations and return to work programs.
Participate in the Plant safety audit program, ensuring audits are performed as scheduled and data is captured, monitored, and used to drive improvements.
Partner with broader EHS team on a wide variety of global EHS initiatives and projects across multiple EHS disciplines, including, but not limited to: worker’s compensation, EHS policy, change management, environmental performance, regulatory compliance, sustainability and social responsibility.
Manage, train, and develop EHS team members through mentoring, coaching and coordination of individual development plans. Provide performance feedback on an ongoing basis. Partner with HR on employee relations issues that involve safety.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s Degree in Occupational Safety and/or Environmental or equivalent work experience.
3+ years of experience in safety and environmental management is required. Food manufacturing experience is preferred.
3+ years of experience leading direct-reporting team members.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Proven track record of implementing effective EH&S programs with positive results.
Knowledge of appropriate federal, state, county, city,, and institutional regulations regarding food processing operations.
Knowledge of Worker's Compensation claim management, including managing internal processes and procedures.
Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, ISO 14001, Federal, State, City, and County standards and regulations.
Good problem-solving techniques including knowledge of LEAN and/or Six Sigma methodologies.
Strong ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.
Effective training techniques for diverse audiences.
Entrepreneurial and hands-on – committed to innovation, continuous improvement and moving beyond the norm.
Self-starter, takes initiative, a driver for change, personable and approachable, collaborative, and passionate about their work.
Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a changing, complex environment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.

Salary Description

$75,000 - $90,000

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