About The Role:The National Safety Manager works to prevent workplace accidents, incidents and promotes health, safety, and security awareness and education of Veho employees, various contractors, and business partners. You are responsible for creating, implementing, leading and managing Veho's safety/security program while making sure employees follow laws, policies, and procedures for a safer work environment. Additionally, you manage systems, tools and vendor relationships that aid in the compliance of said policies across Veho.
What you'll do:- Lead Veho's Safety program across the network of warehouses.
- Create, build, implement and hold teams accountable to safety initiatives, existing and new.
- Assist, plan and implement safety policies and procedures in compliance with local, state and federal rules and regulations including Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- Cross-functional support on all new business initiatives, facilities, and clients. Using your subject matter expertise to advise on safety decisions.
- Owner of fire life safety across the network of warehouses, local, state and federal.
- Conduct safety meetings, audits and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action and implement follow-up assessments.
- Lead Veho's Injury and Incident Prevention Plan (IIPP), manage all injuries with warehouse leadership and injured individuals.
- Oversight of operational near misses with a safety impact, leading through the corrective action.
- Owner of Workers Compensation Claims (WC), working closely with WC adjusters, providers, and brokers.
- Collaborate with leadership on site-specific Emergency Action Plans.
- Build a comprehensive weather notification framework to mitigate risk in the warehouse, on the road and to the business.
- Oversight on physical security infrastructure, not limited to access control, closed-circuit television and mobile storage.
- Establish safety programs to include but not limited to: recognition, training, standard operating procedures, employee engagement and communication, ergonomics, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct investigations on risk, theft, property damage, integrity and business disruptions.
- Lead Power Industrial Truck (PIT) program to include training, certification, de-certification and accidents.
- Create vendor/visitor rules and regulations for all non-Veho guests.
- Collaborate with Temp Agencies to proactively train temp employees, hold them accountable to Veho's Safety Accountability Guidelines, and work through reported injuries.
- Embraces AI as a force multiplier, uses AI to move faster, build, and think bigger.
What You Bring:- Minimum of 7 years of working with multi-site responsibilities in safety, security and asset protection.
- Extensive knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- Understanding of local, state and federal rules, regulations and laws.
- Excellent relationship-building skills, cross-functional partnership.
- High sense of urgency with a flexible schedule tending to business needs.
- Works well under pressure and crisis management.
- Communication skills, written and verbal are essential. Confidence in training.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work independently with a high degree of autonomy in an ambiguous environment.
- Skills in metric tracking, data analytics and strategy.
- Self-motivated, growth mindset, and willingness to pivot quickly.
- Experience coaching peers, leaders and business partners, sharing feedback, growth opportunities and recognition.
- Willingness to learn and be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
- On-site in our Philadelphia market with the ability to travel as needed for the business.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
