Safety and Quality Manager

About the role

Pay: $70k–$75K. Day shift hours: 8 am–5 pm (night shift as needed). Located at 102 E Fields St, Dallas, NC 28034.

Responsibilities

• Direct and maintain plant safety and quality programs, ensuring compliance with OSHA, environmental regulations, company standards, and applicable industry requirements.
• Spend approximately 90% of time on the production floor identifying hazards, monitoring processes, and working directly with employees and supervisors to improve safety and quality.
• Conduct new‑hire safety orientations, monthly safety training, weekly toolbox talks, safety committee meetings, and emergency response drills; maintain required training records.
• Conduct inspections and risk assessments; identify and mitigate hazards involving equipment, ergonomics, hazardous materials, and unsafe conditions; support accident and incident investigations and corrective actions.
• Maintain required OSHA, environmental, permitting, inspection, testing, reporting, and certification requirements, including support for INSHARP/VIPP programs and regulatory audits.
• Partner with maintenance and operations to ensure equipment is safely installed, maintained, and inspected; manage PPE, safety footwear, and prescription eyewear programs.
• Oversee quality control activities, including inspection, sampling, testing, process monitoring, quality standards, and implementation of quality control plans.
• Support resolution of customer quality complaints and evaluate returned products (RGAs), recommending appropriate corrective actions.
• Monitor and report safety, quality, production, and other key performance indicators; identify trends and implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with operations, maintenance, production, shipping/receiving, sales, customer service, employees, and management to achieve safety, quality, efficiency, and loss‑prevention objectives.

Skills

• BS Degree in Safety or equivalent, or two years' experience as a safety professional (or a combination of both).
• OSHA 30 preferred.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• A team player; able to train other employees effectively.
• Experience working with quality systems preferred.

Benefits

• Immediate access to health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• Short‑ and long‑term disability coverage.
• Comprehensive wellness initiative with access to a progressive financial training program.
• 401(k) employer match 1