Quality, Safety and Environment Manager

About the role

Our Safety Manager partners with leaders, employees, and multiple stakeholders to strengthen our QSE (Quality Safety Environment) culture and develop policies and processes specific to a DC (distribution center) and PC (production center) setting in order to protect our most important assets: Our employees, our customers, our communities, and our brands.

Responsibilities

• Partners with the Site General Manager/ Plant Manager (as a direct report) and Corporate QSE department to define, build, monitor, and continuously improve Liberty’s QSE culture of “100% safe, 100% of the time” and “100% Right, 100% of the Time.”
• Verifies the comprehensive and universal QSE program meets all regulatory and other stakeholder requirements specific to a production, warehouse, and distribution settings.
• Creates and develops training tools, processes, and other programs for our operations QSE team, management, and our employees to improve QSE capability, performance, and culture.
• Create annual QSE performance goals (LTIR, TRIR, MFI, CPM, WUR, EUR, etc.).
• Create management routines, audits, and inspections to significantly improve QSE performance within each PC & DC and strategic business functions.
• Develop comprehensive multi-year QSE strategies within each assigned PC, DC, and/or Business Function.
• Effective QSE leader/SME, role model, and employee advocate who influences PC, DC, and Business Function employees and the site-specific QSE teams.
• Create PC, DC, and Business Function-specific QSE metrics, measurements, scorecard, and reporting to significantly improve QSE performance.
• Leverages data, assessments, and observations to identify risks, hazards, and root causes to prevent incidents and injuries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in QSE Related Science (Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, QSE Management, Risk Management, QSE Engineering, or related discipline).
• Minimum of 5+ years of field experience QSE experience in a warehousing/distribution, manufacturing, or transportation operation.
• General Industry Trainings (OSHA 10, OSHA 30, HAZWOPER, etc.).
• Strong knowledge/background in QSE, consensus standards and regulatory compliance (OSHA, FMCSA/DOT, CDC, DOH, etc.).
• Strong background in Auditing.
• Strong background in Workers Compensation and OSHA Recordkeeping.

Additional Requirements

• CSP or CIH strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite.
• Regular interaction with PC, DC, and Business Functions employees where they work.
• 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.
• Supervisory Experience.
• Strong collaborator who builds networks inside & outside the company.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills across a wide audience.
• Effectively able to manage multiple projects and conflicting priorities.
• Effectively time management skills including planning, scheduling, and organizing.
• 15%-25% of time locally or nationally; some overnight required.