Safety and Environmental Manager

About Shearersinternalmobility

Shearer’s is a leading contract manufacturer and private label supplier in the snack industry in North America. Headquartered in Massillon, Ohio, Shearer’s has 17 state-of-the-art, geographically diverse manufacturing facilities in Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Arizona, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Ontario and Alberta, Canada, including one of the industry’s first Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design platinum LEED certified facilities in Massillon, Ohio. The Company is known for producing the highest quality snacks in assorted flavors and sizes, including kettle cooked potato chips, traditional potato chips, tortilla chips, cheese curls and other extruded snacks, and corn chips, as well as cookies, crackers, and wafers.

Job Summary

Your seat at the table! This role is a part of the senior team at the plant and is accountable for leading a comprehensive safety and wellness process using a proactive approach. Creating a safety culture, where our associates’ safety and well-being is always the #1 priority.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a caring safety culture that is focused on people
• Lead processes necessary to ensure a safe working environment – every shift, every day
• Lead the facility to meet or exceed established corporate safety goals aligned with business needs
• Lead processes necessary to be compliant with applicable federal, state and local safety requirements and remain current on changing requirements; handle any applicable audits or OSHA visits.
• Lead programs, training, and messaging to recognize, reward and promote safe behaviors throughout the facility – catch our associates doing things right.
• Drive strong accountability with leaders to be role models of safe behaviors.
• Lead programs to correct unsafe acts and unsafe conditions with the workplace
• Work collaboratively with the Site Director, HR and Worker’s Compensation/Leave Experts (both in the plant and at the support center) on all decisions related to injuries, leaves, reasonable accommodations/return to work, discipline and leave case management.
• Strong sense of urgency around communication and proactive approach to issues and concerns.
• Stay apprised on trends and best practices – both across the network and within the marketplace and the Safety Community