Site Safety Supervisor

About the role

The Safety Supervisor position assures compliance with Federal, State and Local laws and Kenco safety programs. Specifically, the Safety Supervisor manages the Powered Industrial Truck Training and Personal Protective Equipment programs. This position directly supervises up to two Powered Industrial Truck Trainers. May include responsibility for temporary staff as needed for fluctuations in workload.

Responsibilities

• Develop and facilitate various safety training programs
• Helps develop the warehouse and distribution center safety program
• Conducts safety audits including but not limited to fire equipment, dock conditions, housekeeping, rack conditions, material conditions, and electrical conditions
• Partner with Operations to build support for safety initiatives
• Supports operations and other team members on incident analysis, corrective action development and root cause determination
• Identifies and corrects at risk behaviors immediately when observed
• Maintains required governmental reporting documents
• Supports investigations into all accidents
• Periodically review conditions of powered industrial equipment and maintenance procedures
• Provide safety information to supervisors that will improve safety in their areas of responsibility
• Aid the Safety Manager and Operation Managers with any special projects that require safety input
• Maintain, update, and add as necessary site policies, procedures, standard work instructions, and tools to improve the efficacy of the quality management system
• Administer internal audit program to ensure compliance to the quality management system through training auditors, auditing processes and procedures, and measuring results
• Identify training needs and organize training interventions to meet quality standards
• Investigate customer complaints and non-conformance issues and perform root cause and corrective action investigations to improve the quality management system
• Collect and compile statistical quality data and analyze to identify areas for improvement to the quality management system

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in management, occupational health and safety, human resources or engineering from four-year college or university; Or two- to five-years’ experience in logistics or manufacturing management; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of six months supervisory experience
• Safety leadership experience
• Experience in warehousing, distribution, or related preferred
• Previous experience in the safety field as a safety specialist, technician, or trainer
• Prior powered industrial truck experience
• Computer knowledge in Microsoft software
• Knowledge of OSHA, DOT, federal, state, and local laws and regulations pertaining to safety