Safety Manager

Safety Manager – East Hanover, PA with travel to York, PA

A premier leader in wire manufacturing is looking for a Safety Manager to join their team in York County. The Safety Manager is responsible for planning, directing and implementing the company safety program. They support the EHS Manager in ensuring a safe, healthy, and accident-free work environment.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and maintains effective safety and health policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure compliance with all applicable government regulations or standards and company policies and procedures.
• Conducts audits and risk management assessments of facilities, equipment, and safety procedures and practices and provides corrective action recommendations to management.
• Collaborates with Management and the Operations teams to improve the working environment, reduce potential impacts to employees from operational activities, and make recommendations on process and product safety best practices that will reduce employee exposure to work hazards (e.g., Job Safety Analysis).
• Reviews requirements for new equipment, raw materials or substances (e.g., M/SDS), or processes to verify that all safety and health requirements are met.
• Performs incident investigations (accidents, injuries, and near misses), maintains records including injury and illness (OSHA Form 300) and non-injury investigation reports, presents corrective actions to Management and tracks progress to ensure actions are implemented.
• Manages Worker’s Compensation cases to ensure an expedient conclusion.
• Manages and/or conducts all required safety training to communicate safety awareness and safe work methods (e.g., lock-out/tag-out, fire extinguisher, forklift, hoist, blood borne pathogens) mandated by government regulations and company polices for all newly hired and current employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Conducts regular fire and evacuation drills.
• Organizes and conducts monthly Safety Committee meetings.
• Manages first aid program (e.g., AED, CPR training).
• Manages all safety-related PPE and supplies to ensure sufficient resources are available.
• Participates in a continuous improvement process to achieve the corporate goal of zero injuries.
• Confers with local emergency responders and government officials (e.g., OSHA, DOT) to ensure cooperation and coordination of plant activities promotes safe operations and maintain compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in industrial safety and health, occupational, environmental, or industrial hygiene or similarly related degree.
• Three to five years of experience in safety program management required with experience in manufacturing desirable.
• Certified Safety Professional (CSP) desired or other safety related certification.
• Comprehensive knowledge of applicable government regulations, standards, and procedures (e.g., OSHA, EPA, DOT, DEP).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as strong PC, Microsoft Office, and administrative skills.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively in a variety of environments. The employee must 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 the ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of the job, the employee will occasionally encounter moving mechanical parts and equipment; some exposure to certain risks, which require following basic safety precautions; and limited exposure to unusual elements such as high temperatures, chemicals, dirt, dust, fumes, unpleasant odors, and loud noises.

CoWorx is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive team. We believe that a varied workforce enhances our business outcomes and contributes to a brighter future for our internal teams, Field Talent, customers, and communities. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or veteran status, and we do not discriminate based on disability.

If you are a person with a disability and require assistance during the recruitment process, please reach out to us.