Environmental Health And Safety Manager

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

• Provides leadership in developing measures and practices that prevent accidents and ensure compliance with OSHA standards, to include:

• Continuously monitor the workplace for hazardous safety and health conditions.

• Ensure safety and health hazards are corrected, eliminated or guarded.

• Assess engineering controls, administrative controls, and PPE on an on-going basis

• Ensures managers and supervisors have the appropriate safety and health; accident prevention; and investigation training.

• Responsible to stop and prevent unsafe actions including the use of unsafe equipment and tools.

• Ensure the results of safety inspections are documented; monitor the investigation of accidents and injuries; ensuring that corrective actions are taken; and providing recommendations for ways to prevent similar accidents.

• Investigate all close calls and other safety-related incidents that have occurred within the accident area.

• Ensure that all accident reports are recorded in a timely, complete, and accurate manner.

• Create and implement safety policies and procedures in compliance with local, state, and federal rules and regulations including Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

• Develop and implement training for managers/supervisors and all employees in worksite safety practices.

• Performs safety surveys and inspections, prepares written reports of findings and recommendations for corrective or preventive measures, where indicated and follows up to ensure measures have been implemented.

• Responsible for the development, evaluation and upgrading of safety programs.

• Maintains safety files and records.

• Perform all other job duties as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required (preferably in environmental health and safety) or equivalent EHS experience

• Minimum 5-10 years related experience

• Required experience with OSHA regulatory requirements