Senior Safety Manager

This is a hybrid role based in Newark, NJ at the HelloFresh Distribution Center.

About the role

The Environmental Health and Safety team is seeking an experienced Sr. Manager of Safety to serve as a site safety manager supporting site leadership. You are responsible for driving safe processes and ensuring compliance with all safety regulations, providing safety expertise, and leveraging lean principles and the hierarchy of controls to ensure the safety of team members. You will develop and deliver safe processes through engineering and ergonomic solutions in partnership with building and HQ leadership.

You will coordinate extensively with cross-functional groups such as Operations, HR, Food Safety & Quality, Operational Excellence, and others. This role requires building and delivering on-time programs that support operational growth, where experimentation, imagination, innovation, and results are measured. A successful Sr. Manager of Safety will have strong leadership skills, be detail-oriented, resilient, a quick decision maker, work with data, and possess a commitment to getting things right. You must be highly determined to drive permanent removal of hazard root causes and strive for the highest quality of service in an efficient, effective, and proactive manner.

This role requires granular analysis, tactical execution of Safety functions, site travel (20%), and project management. It affords the opportunity to build cooperative partnerships with numerous business teams within fulfillment operations.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends and areas of risk within your building and support operations in corrective measures.
• Continuously improve the safety culture through instruction and training of Safety and Operations leaders on safety programs.
• Assess performance, communicate to all levels of management, and ensure safety is incorporated into supply chain processes.
• Escalate and report critical issues, compliance gaps, and emerging risks for the network.
• Maintain safety subject matter expertise, credentials, and engage industry resources as appropriate.
• Create weekly business reviews of projects, incidents, trend analysis, and project statuses.
• Work independently with limited direction and communicate effectively with team members.
• Review metrics and incident details weekly, and support operations in determining root cause and corrective measures.
• Ensure safety programs and rollouts are implemented and monitor for execution.
• Utilize 6SIGMA and/or other analysis tools to identify safety solutions for unique processes.
• Perform floor walks to interact with the team, audit for compliance, and execution of safety programs.
• Assist with specialized safety program development and implementation.
• Solicit feedback and identify benchmarking opportunities within the industry to reduce the risk of injury.
• Lead a team of Safety managers both with direct and indirect oversight.
• Responsible for having a thorough working knowledge of Federal and State OSHA regulations.
• Ensure safety processes are followed to maintain compliance with regulations.
• Support the development and follow-up of any remediation plans due to safety-related citations.
• Act as a subject matter expert resource to field teams on safety-related regulatory compliance issues.
• Work closely with other Compliance partners, including Industrial Hygiene, Environmental, and Field Compliance Team to address team member health exposure issues related to safety enforcement activities.
• Deploy to other locations in the event support is needed or to perform cross-building audit activities.
• Serve as on-site incident leader in the event of a severe injury.

Requirements

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health or a related field.
• Certified Safety Professional or other Safety Certification.
• 8+ years’ management experience in occupational safety and health, NFPA, etc.
• Multi-Site management experience.
• Experience with OSHA VPP preferred.
• Experience in a Manufacturing, Fulfillment, or Distribution Environment.

Skills

• Partner: Effectively listen, build rapport, and communicate at all levels; confident sharing ideas and a trusted advisor for workplace safety.
• Results-driven: Recognize and resolve ambiguous or challenging situations, focus effort on meeting or exceeding goals, and pave the way for efficiency.
• Programmatic: Identify the system component causing errors and the options available for resolving them to complete tasks.
• Inspirational: Deliver presentations that inspire and influence change.
• Strategic: Understand that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work when problem-solving; see the bigger picture and each moving part to identify underlying causes, alternatives, or long-term solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate, 401K company match that vests immediately upon participation, and team bonus opportunities.
• Generous PTO and flexible attendance policy.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits with options at $0 monthly, effective the first day of employment.
• Up to 85% discount on subscriptions to HelloFresh meal plans (HelloFresh, Green Chef, Everyplate, and Factor_).
• Access to Employee Resource Groups open to all employees, including those pertaining to BIPOC, women, veterans, parents, and LGBTQ+.
• Inclusive, collaborative, and dynamic work environment within a fast-paced, mission-driven company disrupting the traditional food supply chain.

Pay

$136,710—$158,100 USD