Founded in 2013, Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at homechef.com and in retail at more than 2,100 Kroger grocery stores, Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple, delicious meals, no matter how busy they are.

Similar to our recipes, we recognize that variety is the spice of life, and therefore, our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.

The EHS Specialist holds responsibility for the enforcement of the Home Chef Safety, Health, and Environmental (EH&S) policies for all departments and all employees in the plant.

Executes Environmental Health and Safety Policies, Programs, and Systems

• Executes the strategy for the development and sustainability of the safety culture in the plant
• Leads implementation of all environmental health and safety policies
• Oversees implementation of internal OSHA compliance program, including internal assessments, corrective actions, and coaching
• Maintains the behavioral observation program and is responsible for conducting observations to ensure all safety specific policies are being followed (e.g. lockout tag-out, PIT operation, fall protection, etc.) under the direction of the sites SafetyManager and the National Safety Manager
• Communicates and rolls out all new policies, ensuring all impacted employees are informed and understand expectations
• Assist the site in maintaining the Process Safety Management (PSM) program and environmental considerations for the refrigeration units.
• Understand the sites waste streams and coordinate with relevant plant functions to efficiently Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Manages Training

• Partners with plant and national training resources to ensure all required safety training is conducted for new hires and annual re-training for existing employees.
• Maintains all records pertaining to the licensing of Powered Industrial Trucks including conducting observations of understanding for all users prior to licensing or relicensing
• Conducts periodic review of temp agency safety trainings to ensure compliance

Manages Site EHS Projects

• Collaborates and coaches relevant stakeholders to be hold EHS objectives paramount and tracks site EHS Projects to completion
• Ensure EHS Champions are executing work tasks and provide support cross functionally for all EHS related issues
• Plans and conducts regular safety meetings (at least monthly) with EHS team to discuss safety issues and provide targeted training to team members
• Ensures issues discussed in the safety meetings are adequately communicated to all members of the Home Chef Team
• Holds site accountable for escalating safety issues identified by any member of the Home Chef team
• Promotes employee engagement in the Safety process.
• Participates in corporate safety team to share best practices across Home Chef plants

Incident Support and Assists with Root Causes Analyses in Response to Safety Incidents

• Responsible for off-shift coverage as an escalation point and resource for addressing safety incidents in the plant.
• Partners with plant leadership on all near miss and recordable incident investigations and has oversight over the triaging of individuals as dictated by the situation at hand.
• Assists in Incident Review Board (IRB) meetings with the plant leadership team to conduct root cause analyses on all safety incidents and determine corrective and preventive actions to manage and prevent future incidents.
• Serves as liaison between management and maintenance in execution of action items related to safety
• Partners closely with Human Resources to effectively manage worker compensation by coordinating doctors visits, determining time off requirements, and setting and communicating any physical limitations upon the employees return to work.
• Has constant communication with injured associates, Workers Comp adjuster/s and medical facilities.
• Assist in the creation of job safety analysis (JSAs) processes plant-wide.

General Responsibilities:

• Follow the facility GMPs and lead by example as a member of the site leadership team
• Backfill for the Safety Manager when department head is not available
• Support the efforts of the company to maintain our food safety system (SQF) and quality

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• 2-3 years experience in safety
• Prior people management skills required
• Fluency in Spanish preferred but not required
• Proficient in MS Office Suite or G Suite, specifically PowerPoint/ Google Slides and Excel/ Google Sheets
• Ability to prioritize, meet strict deadlines and maintain confidentiality

Salary range: $63,000-$70,000

Perks and benefits:

• Candidates can experience Home Chef as a customer - enter promo code PEOPLE30 for $30 off your first order!
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
• 401k program
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

How We Work Together

We are humble team players. We are warm and gracious with team members and customers. We seek feedback to improve ourselves - and respectfully listen to and accept input.

We are pragmatic next-level thinkers. We come up with novel and unique ideas. We explore new strategies to avoid being constrained by conventional thinking.

We take ownership. We approach ambiguous problems, prepared to dive in, get curious, and learn more. We are results-driven, always challenging ourselves to exceed goals.

Be at Home at Home Chef

We all show up authentically at Home Chef. Our team includes individuals with a variety of identities, backgrounds, and perspectives. You can trust that youll be able to bring your whole self to an inclusive and enjoyable workplace.

We welcome people of all races, colors, religions, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disabilities, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged/sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.

Home Chef is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Home Chef will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People team at hr@homechef.com.

Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.

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