Manager, Health & Safety

About the Role

This position is responsible for promoting wellness and a safe work environment within the region/business unit. The incumbent formulates region/business unit strategies, tactics, and improvement initiatives to prevent injuries and auto crashes, reduce workers compensation/liability costs, and mitigate risk. This position develops Health and Safety expertise among District/business unit counterparts and fosters strategic external relationships with professional, regulatory, and community organizations to provide a safe work environment and strengthen TFF's standing in the communities served.

Responsibilities

• Develops health and safety strategies to set direction and communicate trends to region/district staff.
• Collaborates with district HR, H&S, and Operations Managers to execute health and safety initiatives that prevent auto crashes, injuries, and address the needs of the business.
• Serves as a subject matter expert to share health and safety best practices.
• Provides district consultation on effective action plans that address contributing causes.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to investigate, analyze, and resolve critical business concerns related to injury and auto crash prevention and wellness.
• Promotes safety recognition programs to foster a safe work environment.
• Analyzes cost statements to identify high-impact areas with greatest claims cost.
• Communicates and implements new or changing regulatory requirements to ensure compliance.
• Verifies compliance to TFF policies and regulatory requirements through audits to ensure TFF's brand and reputation are protected.
• Supports business unit development of correction actions for all identified issues and validates execution.
• Reports safety strategy results to the management team to detect trends and determine the effectiveness of the plan and its execution.
• Analyzes audit data/health and safety compliance reports to identify action plans, abatement strategies, and best practices.
• Provides follow-up reports to management teams to ensure adjustments within the districts are being executed and maintained as part of the business plan.
• Communicates the strategic Health and Safety Plan to all stakeholders to communicate expectations and ensure progress in execution is tracked and accountability is maintained.
• Reports progress of safety initiatives to management teams.
• Provides direction on district/business unit prevention and regulatory compliance training strategy.
• Conducts workshops to assist management who deliver health and safety training programs.
• Facilitates health and safety training to TFF employees.
• Monitors tracking, auditing, and scheduling of employee and manager safety training.
• Trains district management in using accident and injury prevention.
• Measures training results.
• Manages resources and people processes.
• Identifies individual and team skill gaps/developmental opportunities.
• Ensures that direct/indirect reports have documented career goals.
• Makes salary recommendations to reward employee performance.

Requirements

• U.S. citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be located in the same geographic location as the job or willing to relocate.
• Bachelor’s Degree (or internationally comparable degree) or current TFF employee with experience.
• Knowledge of Warehouse Systems (preferred).
• Experience in a Health & Safety role (preferred).
• Operations experience in a distribution environment (preferred).