Site Safety Manager Production Center

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