Job Purpose: The Plant H&S Manager is primarily responsible for promoting the safety culture and leading all the safety and environmental programs for the plant.

Key Accountabilitie s:

Safety:

+ Lead the plant safety committee bi-monthly meetings and follow up activities

+ Review all incident investigations and ensure all necessary follow-up is completed.

+ Implement and lead behavior based safety programs

+ Lead lock-out/tag-out programs and audit for compliance with adherence and documentation.

+ Perform work comp case management; determine record ability and necessary interventions for improvement.

+ Lead and develop safety recognition and celebration activities.

+ Manage all OSHA required training and programs

+ Lead and track the safety observation program.

+ Ensure all annual required safety training is completed by 100% of the organization.

+ Ensure compliance with all quarterly and annual safety inspection programs

+ Conduct and continually enhance safety on-boarding/orientation.

+ Ensure communications and training of emergency evacuation.

+ Ensure emergency response team has required annual training

+ Conduct and follow-up on ergonomic analysis and lead program implementation.

+ Coordinate hearing conservation program and ensure noise surveys are completed.

+ Lead internal safety review process between plants

Environmental:

+ Conduct internal environmental audits

+ Work closely with environmental consultants on all permitting

+ Track all required emission data

+ Prepare plant for ISO 14001 certification

+ Comply with the environmental policies and procedures at Barilla Ames facility including energy efficiency, reduce – re-use – recycle goals, reporting requirements and sustainable initiatives. Complete any environmental tasks as assigned and report environmental concerns immediately.

+ Follows ISO22000 policies and procedures, address / communicate quality and food safety issues as they occur.

+ Required to actively participate on the Food Defence Team and abide by the Food Defence Model

+ Required to be a FSMA qualified individual, following all requirements from FSMA regulations

+ Ensure compliance and understanding for quality procedures that directly tie to food safety-PRPs, OPRPs, CCPs and FSMA requirements.

Additional Information:

+ A Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety or related field or equivalent level of experience (5-7 years) in safety and environmental experience at a plant facility.

+ Strong working knowledge of OSHA regulations required.

+ Workers compensation injury management experience and exposure to ISO 14001 a plus

+ Experience in an ISO environment preferred

Key Challenges:

+ This position will spend 50% of time climate controlled offices and 50% of time on the production floor. This entails working in an environment of temperatures up to and exceeding 130? F, high humidity and 85-94 dB noise levels.