Safety Manager

About Mini Melts

Mini Melts is a premium novelty ice cream brand redefining frozen fun through innovation, hospitality, and operational excellence. We serve millions through entertainment venues, retail stores, and foodservice partners. We’re on a mission to scale our white-glove experience while ensuring best-in-class performance across every customer touchpoint.

About the Role

The Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager is responsible for safeguarding the health and well-being of all employees, contractors, and visitors at our Norwich, CT food manufacturing facility as well as our direct-store-delivery (DSD) and fleet operations across 28 depots nationwide. This role leads the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of Mini Melts’ safety, environmental, and risk management programs, ensuring a safe, compliant, and accident-free workplace across both production and field operations.

Reporting to Supply Chain leadership, the EHS Manager partners closely with manufacturing leadership, depot managers, production, warehousing, fleet, and HR to embed a proactive safety culture that meets or exceeds all regulatory requirements and supports Mini Melts’ commitment to excellence.

At Mini Melts, safety is more than compliance. It’s how we protect our people, our product, our shareholders, and our promise to customers.

Key Responsibilities

General

• Lead the Mini Melts Safety Program across manufacturing, depot, and fleet operations; develop, implement, and continuously refine safety policies, procedures, and best practices tailored to both a food manufacturing and direct-store-delivery (DSD) environment.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable OSHA, FDA, USDA, DOT, state, and local safety regulations.
• Develop and deliver safety training programs for employees, drivers, and depot staff at all levels to reduce accidents, occupational illnesses, and long-term health hazards.
• Conduct workplace inspections and audits at the plant and across the 28 depots to identify hazards, unsafe conditions, or at-risk behaviors; ensure timely corrective actions.
• Oversee incident and accident investigations (manufacturing, depot, and fleet), determine root causes, document findings, implement corrective actions, and manage workers’ compensation claims in partnership with HR.
• Support OSHA, DOT, and regulatory inspections, serve as primary contact, ensure documentation is in order, and facilitate corrective actions when required.
• Oversee fleet safety programs by monitoring and improving safety scores, leading accident review meetings, and collaborating with the Fleet Manager on insurance claims.
• Manage driver compliance processes by administering driver qualifications, developing systems to track DOT compliance for drivers and vehicles, and ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
• Oversee depot safety by ensuring all locations are equipped with proper tools, identifying operational hazards, and implementing corrective actions.
• Manage personal protective equipment (PPE) programs; ensure appropriate PPE is available, maintained, and used properly across manufactuing and depot operations.
• Drive injury prevention strategies; monitor safety metrics, analyze trends, and implement targeted improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate return-to-work and light-duty programs for injured employees, ensuring safe and timely reintegration.
• Maintain all safety documentation including training records, incident reports, compliance logs, fleet records, and safety meeting minutes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Administrative Support, Production and Warehousing, Depot Managers, and Fleet staff to align reporting, metrics, and business goals.
• Identify gaps in safety programs across manufactuign and DSD operations, collaborate on solutions that improve both compliance and efficiency.
• Contribute to monthly and quarterly business reviews with performance deep dives, data insights, and actionable recommendations.

What We're Looking For

• Associate degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Health, or related field preferred.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in safety leadership within a high-volume manufacturing environment (food manufacturing strongly preferred) and/or direct-store-delivery (DSD) operations with fleet safety oversight.
• Proven track record in EHS program development, implementation, and compliance management across both manufacturing and field operations.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA regulations; OSHA 30 certification preferred.
• Experience managing regulatory inspections (OSHA, DOT), incident investigations, fleet accidents, and workers’ compensation claims.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; able to influence at all organizational levels from frontline employees to senior leadership.
• Analytical problem-solver with the ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite; experience with safety management systems or fleet safety tools a plus.
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities across geographically dispersed operations.

You Are

• Data-driven - you see the story behind the numbers and use it to drive decisions.
• Process-minded - you thrive on improving workflows and standardizing best practices.
• Detail-oriented - you catch what others miss and follow through until it’s fixed.
• A clear communicator - you make complex information simple and actionable.
• Curious - you constantly ask “why” and dig deeper to prevent issues before they happen.
• A collaborator who builds trust across departments and levels
• Deeply committed to people’s well-being - you care as much about protecting your team’s health as you do about meeting compliance requirements.