Senior Manager, Corporate Health, Safety & Environmental - Remote

Eagle Family Foods Group LLC; Buffalo Grove (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the food industry is seeking a Health, Safety, and Environmental Manager to develop and implement comprehensive HS&E programs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in regulatory compliance, safety management, and environmental sustainability, significantly impacting employee safety and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years experience in HS&E, including 5 years in corporate leadership.
• Completed OSHA 511 training, ideally OSHA 501 certified.
• Food manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement company-wide HS&E programs.
• Drive safety outcomes across all facilities.
• Oversee environmental compliance and incident reporting.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Collaboration

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Overview

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

Responsibilities

Job Description Summary

To develop a company-wide Health, Safety and Environmental (HS&E) program that protects Eagles’ employees and assets, complies with all regulatory requirements and meets external party requirements for Health/Safety and Environmental in the ethical sourcing audit scheme.

Reports

2 Shared with Plant Managers

Essential Functions

• Business Acumen/Technical Knowledge: an understanding of regulatory requirements in the HS&E area and experience developing and implementing standards across multiple locations at a corporate level.
• Ability to Work with Others: experience delivering results in collaboration with others and maintaining respectful working relationships with leaders, peers, and subordinates. Ability to direct/guide the work of others to achieve successful outcomes.
• Ability to Analyze Data and Solve Problems: able to analyze information, develop plans of action in coordination with others and see those actions through implementation, be they individual actions or actions assigned to others. Ability to assess if the implementation of actions delivered intended results, and if not adjust the implementation to ensure the delivery of the intended outcome. The ideal candidate can identify not only problems brought to them by others but also problems others may not know exist and coordinate the activities of others to fix them.
• Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management.
• Ability to think independently and identify a need to act without constant direction from others.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to deal with confidential information.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Drive safety outcomes at all Eagle owned or run facilities.
• Develop rules, policies and procedures that are compliant with current HS&E regulations. Drive compliance in the workplace through site leaders and functional heads.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs). Leverage dashboards and outcomes to identify areas where problem solving and capability building are needed to improve systems, processes, people and ultimately results.
• Identify training and capability building programs (internal, external, OSHA, etc.) that should be followed at all locations by role to drive employee engagement and capability to deliver excellence.
• Coordinate the development of emergency response plans at all locations that align with the corporate plan in the HS&E space.
• Standardize safety systems and programs across locations in collaboration with local leaders to deliver expected results and drive Continuous Improvement.
• Develop a personal continuing education plan for yourself to stay up to date on industry and regulatory trends in the HS&E space.
• Take independent action to audit compliance with HS&E policies in all company locations. Where needed, identify reliable external partners to help assess performance, implement programs and improve results.
• Develop a robust company-wide incident reporting and investigation protocol to ensure all incidents are accurately recorded and reported internally and, when appropriate, externally within the required timeframes. Oversee the root cause analysis process as executed by functional leaders in company locations to ensure immediate corrective actions and long-term systemic actions are implemented to ensure the incident does not happen again.
• Oversee environmental permitting at all locations. Enroll 3rd parties, as needed, to help our locations with filings and other requirements. Identify where cross location partnerships should be maintained with 3rd parties vs. where local relationships are best suited to meet business needs.
• Support ideation to reduce the companies’ environmental footprint.
• Own the completion of external partner (Kelso investors, Eagle customers) sustainability data in the required/requested platforms. Manage Greely data entry and analysis.
• Oversee and have accountability for the Health/Safety and Environmental components of external party ethical sourcing audits (i.e. SMETA 4 pillar or others as required)
• Ensure all locations follow guidelines for proper management and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous solid waste.
• Collaborate with the HR Department & Corporate Controller to manage the Workers Compensation program
• Collaborate with the Engineering and Maintenance team to ensure external contractors follow safety principles during installations and project activities.
• Ensure application of change management principles to avoid accidents connected with change due to lack of planning, execution or proper communication.

Eagle Foods will provide reasonable accommodation to allow an employee to perform the essential functions of the job.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

Minimum degree and experience required:

• Bachelor’s Degree or technical experience commensurate with the position
• 10 years minimum experience in HS&E with at least 5 years in operations and 5 in a corporate leadership position, ideally at a CPG company
• Completed OSHA 511 training and ideally OSHA 501 trained and certified.
• Knowledge and practical application of risk-management techniques in operational environments
• Food manufacturing experience is preferred.
• Multi state environmental and waste reporting experience
• Experience and relationships with 3rd parties to help assess and manage safety programs.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and direct proactive safety and environmental programs.
• A demonstrated ability to deliver world class HS&E results in past jobs

Additional competencies required:

• Strong written and oral English language skills. Fluency in Spanish language a plus
• Computer skills (MS Office, e-mail)
• Presentation skills
• Project Management skills
• Experience managing others for success.

Additional Information

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop or kneel, crouch or crawl; taste or smell. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Travel: This position will typically require 2 to 3 trips per month, with a duration of 2-3 days per trip.