Nestle

Vice President of Safety, Health, and Environmental

Nestle$150K — $200K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • 15+ years of experience in manufacturing or industrial environments
  • 7+ years of safety leadership experience in a corporate setting
  • Proven track record in leading safety culture change with improved metrics
  • Knowledge of best practices in SH&E and environmental sustainability

Responsibilities

  • Develop and lead strategy for the "Zero Harm Journey"
  • Direct the design and implementation of environmental safety policies
  • Serve as a liaison with Safety Leadership in the Americas
  • Collaborate with legal counsel on regulatory interpretations and compliance
  • Establish and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to safety
  • Manage the corporate safety strategy, including training development and audits

Benefits

  • 401k with company match
  • Healthcare coverage
  • Performance-based incentives
  • Broad range of additional benefits
  • Opportunities in an inclusive workplace
Full Job Description
Position Summary

As a Vice President of Safety, Health, and Environmental (SH&E), you will develop and lead strategy implementation of our "Zero Harm Journey". This role will see you directing the design, development, and implementation of corporate environmental safety policies, standards, and programs that enable compliance while allowing corporate groups, businesses, and categories to meet their business needs and goals. While doing so, you will maintain third party relations with key federal, state, and local leaders, legislators, regulators, and organizations. As the corporate leader of SH&E, this role will sit locally in our St. Louis corporate headquarters.

  • Serve as a liaison with Nestlé Zone Americas Safety Leadership, coordinating any communication, initiatives, and programs with and from these groups. This includes input, and counsel on programs, strategy, and key issues raised.
  • Work with internal SH&E legal counsel to ensure understanding and develop corporate interpretation and implementation of legislation and regulation. Partner with legal and government relations, providing awareness, educations support, and interaction to third parties on existing and proposed rules.
  • Lead and manage a corporate team of direct reports.
  • Ensure establishment, interpretation, and reporting of relevant KPI's, with appropriate leading and corrective actions based on them.
  • Manage all aspects of safety strategy, policy, compliance, audit, training development, implementation, and validation.


Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree required.
  • 15+ years of experience in a manufacturing, warehouse, or other industrial related environment required.
  • 7+ years of safety leadership experience in a corporate environment supporting multiple facility types (i.e. manufacturing, industrial, corporate, etc.) required.
  • Experience leading an organization through a safety culture change that sustainably delivered strong Recordable Incident Rate measures required.
  • Experience and understanding of best-in-class training routines for SH&E and environmental sustainability required.


Other
  • Bachelors degree in Safety, Health, and Environmental or related discipline preferred.
  • Consumer Packaged Goods manufacturing experience strongly preferred.


Final compensation may vary based on factors including, but not limited to knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as geographic location. Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with Company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at About Us | Nestlé Careers (nestlejobs.com)

Our roots were planted here in 1894, and we have since expanded to 24 manufacturing facilities nationwide. St. Louis, a hidden gem, offers a unique blend of big-city amenities and a small-town feel. Discover a rich culture, world-class schools, top-notch healthcare, and affordable living. With neighborhoods to suit every lifestyle, St. Louis is the perfect place to call home. Join us in this vibrant city, where we proudly work together to make a difference in the lives of people, our pets and the environment.

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you'll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

About Nestle

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 in the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over 1 billion CHF, including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the "Anglo-Swiss Milk Company", established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé", founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber in 2007.
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