Manufacturing Safety Leader

Butterball, LLC; Carthage (MO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Butterball, LLC in Carthage, MO is seeking an experienced Safety Manager to provide advanced support, directing activities to ensure the health and safety of team members. You will aid in designing processes to reduce injuries and promote well-being, and train team members to ensure compliance.

At Butterball, we exist to help people pass love on. This role leads safety initiatives, conducts incident investigations, supports audits, and champions ergonomic and process improvements to keep workers

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of relevant experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role.
• 1+ years of leadership experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the day-to-day activities of a team of entry level individual contributors. Provides guidance, coaching, and support to ensure successful completion of tasks. Participates in HR activities such as hiring, terminations, performance management, goal setting, team member development, scheduling, etc. Enforces systems, policies, and procedures.
• Identifies training needs and facilitates the creation and execution of facility wide safety training and resource distribution.
• Monitors compliance with facility, corporate, and regulatory compliance ensuring team members work in safe and efficient methods.
• Reviews or serves as the facilitator for the investigation of incidents and guides the root cause analysis to identify the reason for incidents. Responsible for ensuring follow through of corrective action ensuring that modifications/improvements are tracked, documented, and completed within established timeframes.
• Responsible for complex tasks that assist in preparation for facility safety audits by maintaining site file plan. Ensures follow up and documentation of audit findings are completed within established frame frames.
• Partners on an annual review of policies, procedures, and forms to ensure team member safety and compliance with regulatory and company requirements.
• Conducts team member surveys to identify adverse health symptoms resulting from job hazards. Recommends and helps implement solutions that improve team members' well-being.
• Responsible for ensuring ergonomic practices are in place by conducting ergonomic job analysis, identifying musculoskeletal hazards, observing team member reactions to their environment/workspace/equipment, conducting research, performing statistical analysis, and reporting trends on a regular basis. Assists in design improvements to workstations or job methods, coordinates implementation of changes, and ensures all modifications are tracked, documented and completed within the established time frames.
• Assesses the suitability of products and systems for the capabilities and needs of team members.
• Utilizes relevant systems and shared safety processes. Complete annual verification of all safety preventative maintenance (PM) work orders and ensures that necessary PMs are generated and completed that address safety sensitive issues.
• Supports the execution and oversight of various safety programs, such as Facility Suggestion, facility auditing, IH testing, OSHA directives, etc.
• Provides resources for Safety Committee meetings.

Skills

Safety leadership

Training & coaching

Incident investigation

Ergonomics

Regulatory compliance

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Bachelor's degree in related field (preferred)

Job description

Butterball, LLC in Carthage, MO is seeking an experienced Safety Manager to provide advanced support, directing activities to ensure the health and safety of team members. You will aid in designing processes to reduce injuries and promote well-being, and train team members to ensure compliance.

At Butterball, we exist to help people pass love on. This role leads safety initiatives, conducts incident investigations, supports audits, and champions ergonomic and process improvements to keep workers