Job Description Summary 

The Safety Manager serves as the site leader for environmental, health, and safety programs and is responsible for driving a safe, compliant, and injury-free workplace. This position partners closely with Plant Leadership, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Corporate HSE, and Human Resources to strengthen safety culture, reduce risk, ensure regulatory compliance, support continuous improvement and build organizational capability. The Safety Manager serves as the site’s primary environmental, health, and safety subject matter expert while driving accountability and ownership of safety across all levels of the organization.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

• Provides leadership in developing measures and practices that prevent accidents and ensure compliance with OSHA standards, to include: 
  • Continuously monitor the workplace for hazardous safety and health conditions. 
  • Ensure safety and health hazards are corrected, eliminated, or guarded. 
  • Assess engineering controls and administrative controls, on an ongoing basis 
• Serves as a key member of the Plant Leadership Team, providing leadership and direction on environmental, health, and safety strategies, priorities, and performance.  
• Drive a culture where safety is a core value through employee engagement, leadership coaching, auditing, and continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring safety ownership exists at all levels of the organization.  
• Coach, influence and develop leaders at all levels of the organization to build safety capability, strengthen accountability, and create a culture where employees actively identify, address, and report unsafe conditions and behaviors.  
• Provides accurate and timely reporting on safety KPI’s and utilizes leading and lagging indicators to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.  
• Maintains current knowledge of and implementation of applicable regulatory and corporate environmental, health and safety regulations 
• Monitors all aspects of workers compensation and return to work programs 
• Lead site risk assessments, Job Hazard Analysis (JHAs), hazard identification activities, and facility audits to proactively identify and mitigate workplace risks.  
• Administer and maintain PPE program for the plant, ensuring inventory is maintained as needed 
• Ensures managers and supervisors have the appropriate safety and health; accident prevention; and investigation training. 
• Responsible for stopping and preventing unsafe actions including, the use of unsafe equipment and tools. 
• Lead incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective action development, and follow up activities to prevent recurrence and reduce risk.  
• Develops and implements LOTO procedures for equipment and processes 
• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and Human Resources, and Corporate HSE to integrate safety into daily operations, capital projects, compliance activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.  
• Develop and administer contractor safety programs, including onboarding, qualification, monitoring and compliance verification.  
• Coordinate site readiness and corrective actions for OSHA inspections, customer audits, insurance audits, SMETA audits, and other third party assessment.  
• Manage environmental compliance programs, permits, reporting requirements, wastewater compliance, and regulatory inspections.  
• Partner with Human Resources, Operations, and staffing agencies to ensure employees and temporary workers receive appropriate safety training and support compliance with workplace and social responsibility standards.  
• Responsible for the respiratory program, forklift certification, and supplier safety training.  
• Create and implements safety policies and procedures in compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations including Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). 
• Ensures compliance with company policies, procedures, OSHA, and safety inspections or audits.  
• Develop and implement safety training programs for leaders and employees focused on hazard recognition, accident prevention, emergency response, and regulatory compliance. 
• Support Process Safety Management (PSM) program, including management of change (MOC), mechanical integrity, and operating procedures to ensure safe and compliant operation of higher-risk processes. 
• Lead environmental compliance programs including air emissions, wastewater, and waste management, ensuring adherence to all regulatory requirements, permits, and reporting obligations. 
• Responsible for the development, evaluation and upgrading of safety programs. 
• Maintains safety files and records, to include OSHA 300 and post 300A as required 
• Maintains records for the city and any environmental agency 
• Promote a culture where all employees, temporary workers, contractors, and leaders are empowered and expected to identify, address, and report unsafe conditions and behaviors.  
• Performs other duties as assigned.  

• Bachelor’s degree required (preferably in Environmental Health & Safety, Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Engineering, or related field)
• Minimum 8-10 years of environmental, health, and safety experience in manufacturing environment
• Food, dairy, beverage, or consumer packaged goods manufacturing experience preferred
• Required experience with OSHA regulatory requirements
• Demonstrated ability to influence, coach, and develop leaders and employees in a manufacturing environment to build a strong safety culture and drive accountability at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including leadership, influencing, and relationship-building across functions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects independently.
• Flexibility to handle and manage both long-term development projects and short-term troubleshooting needs.
• Ability to work through and solve complex problems.
• Strong computer and communication skills, both written and oral.
• Bi-lingual preferred