Director of Safety

The Environmental Health and Safety team is seeking an experienced Director of Safety, you will serve as a multi-site safety leader supporting leadership across the US.  You are responsible for driving safe processes and ensuring compliance to all safety regulations. As well as being responsible for providing safety expertise leveraging lean principles and hierarchy of controls to ensure the safety of our team members. You will develop and deliver safe processes through engineering and ergonomic solutions in partnership with building and HQ leadership. You will need to coordinate extensively with cross-functional groups such as Operations, HR, Food Safety & Quality, Operational Excellence, and others. You will build and deliver on-time programs that support operational growth where experimentation, imagination, innovation, and results are measured.

A successful Director of Safety will have strong leadership skills, be detail-oriented, resilient, a quick decision maker, work with data, and possess a commitment to getting things right. You must be highly determined to drive permanent removal of hazard root causes and strive for the highest quality of service is provided in an efficient, effective, and proactive manner. This role will require granular analysis, tactical execution of Safety functions, site travel, (50%) and project management. This position affords you the opportunity to build cooperative partnerships with numerous business teams within the fulfillment operations. 

You will…

• Drive a strategic safety approach in partnership with the various layers of your team
• You will identify trends and areas of risk within buildings and support operations in corrective measures
• Continuously improve the safety culture through instruction and training of Safety and operations leaders on safety programs. 
• You will assess performance, communicate to all levels of management, and ensure safety is incorporated into supply chain processes and escalate and report critical issues, compliance gaps and emerging risks for the network. 
• You will also maintain safety subject matter expertise, credentials and engages industry resources as appropriate. 
• Create weekly business reviews of projects, incidents, trend analysis (if any) and project statuses
• Work independently with limited direction and communicate effectively with team members

 Safety Processes:

• Review metrics and incident details weekly, and support operations in determining root cause and corrective measures.
• Ensure safety programs and rollouts are implemented.  Monitor for execution. 
• Utilizes 6SIGMA tools as appropriate to identify safety solutions for unique processes.
• Perform site visits to interact with team, audit for compliance and execution of safety programs.
• Assists with specialized safety program development and implementation.
• Solicits feedback and identifies benchmarking opportunities within the industry to identify tools, processes, systems and equipment to reduce the risk of injury.
• The ability to lead a team of Associate Director both with direct and indirect oversight.

Compliance and regulatory matters

• Responsible for having a thorough working knowledge of Federal and State OSHA regulations. 
• Ensures safety processes are followed to maintain compliance with regulations.
• Supports the development and follow up of any remediation plans due to safety related citations
• Acts as a subject matter expert resource to field teams on safety related regulatory compliance issues. 

• Works closely with other Compliance partners, including Industrial Hygiene, Environmental, and Field Compliance Team to address team member health exposure issues that are related to safety enforcement activities.

Incident Response

• Deploy to location in the event of significant safety event
• Serve as on-site incident leader in the event of a severe injury

You are…

• Partner: you effectively listen, build rapport and communicate at all levels; you’re confident sharing ideas and are a trusted advisor for workplace safety
• Results-driven: you recognize and resolve situations that are ambiguous or challenging, focus effort on meeting or exceeding goals, and pave the way for efficiency.
• Programmatic: able to identify the system component that is causing the error, as well as the options available for resolving it and completing the task.
• Inspirational: you know how to make an impact and deliver presentations that inspire and influence change
• Strategic: you understand you can’t take a one-size-fits-all approach when problem-solving; seeing the bigger picture and each moving part helps you identify underlying causes, alternatives or long-term solutions

You have… 

• Possess a bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health or a related field
• Certified Safety Professional or other Safety Certification
• Have 10+ years’ management experience in occupational safety and health, NFPA, etc.
• Experience with OSHA VPP Star, preferred
• 8 years multi-site experience, managing a team of regional level leaders.
• Experience in a Fulfilment or Distribution Environment