Regional Safety Manager

Position: Health and Safety Manager

Company: Leadec

Location: Stanton, Tennessee and Glendale, Kentucky (Hybrid)

Purpose: To continually improve and manage health and safety responsibilities to achieve 100% compliance with customer and corporate requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with regional safety management and facility management to advance the safety leadership skills among management and employee teams to assist them anticipate, identify, and evaluate hazardous behaviors, work practices and conditions.
• Effectively lead by guiding and educating internal operational partners on safety best practices and safety policies/procedures with the goal of continually reducing the onset of injuries and improving site safety performance.
• Serve as a technical expert on hazard recognition, assessment & counter-measuring in a variety of industrial environments including but not limited to Warehousing, Grounds, and Industrial/Technical Cleaning operations.
• Periodically review, analyze, and report lead/lag safety data to site Operations leadership as it pertains to injury prevention efforts.
• Coordinate compliance programs/procedures with responsible facility personnel.
• Periodically perform safety management process and regulatory compliance audits.
• Develop, coordinate, and/or lead local safety training and education processes.
• Coordination and participation of Leadec's incident investigation process serving primarily as a facilitator and technical advisor.
• Serve as liaison between Leadec sites under their direction and regulatory agencies.
• Assist and advise in the selection of personal protective equipment.
• Coordinate and assist with industrial hygiene monitoring programs.
• Maintain safety training/medical records in accordance with legal requirements and company policy.
• Ensure all incident/injury reports are submitted properly in accordance with legal requirements and company policy.
• Serve as primary liaison between sites and the Workers' Compensation Manager with regards to injury (Workers' Compensation) claims.
• Coordinate and lead Site Safety Team activities.
• Extensive overnight travel will be required as the greenfield sites are preparing, launching and moving into a steady state.

Requirements:

• Degree in Occupational Safety & Health or related field. 3 to 5 years of related experience or equivalent.
• CSP or ASP certification preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail and follow-through; a thorough understanding of federal, state, and local safety & health regulations; a full understanding of Leadec Safety Policy.
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects/activities.

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization as well as with customers and regulatory agencies.
• Good interpersonal, deductive reasoning and coaching skills.
• Must demonstrate competency level in personal computing skills including but not limited to Microsoft Office Suite.

Physical Requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee successfully perform the key actions of job:

• The employee is required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is moderate).
• The employee is frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surface from 6-12 hours.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and adjust focus.