Environmental, Health & Safety Supervisor

TITLE: Environmental, Health & Safety Supervisor

REPORTS TO: EHS Manager

LOCATION: Tulare, CA

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

The Environmental Health & Safety Supervisor (EHS) will partner with the EHS Manager to develop and implement EHS programs that promote employee awareness, reduce/eliminate accidents, and risks, actively monitor overall safety performance in the organization to achieve excellence in safety and improve the environmental impact of the factory and reduce costs.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Collaborate with the EHS Manager to implement company EHS programs; engaging and involving all workers to understand and employ safety, environmental and security policies, and programs.
• Administer the incident management and near-miss program, investigating incidents, determining root causes, and implementing corrective and preventative actions.
• Provide counsel and floor support to site teams for safety, health and environmental questions, concerns, identification, and control of hazards, recommending best/better practices.
• Lead the environmental programs established within the organization to include recycling of all office waste in accordance with program guidelines, initiate power conservation techniques by turning off lights and computers when not in use.
• Perform onsite testing/monitoring to ensure compliance within environmental parameters.
• Serves as a secondary point of contact for all Local, State and Federal EH&S related inquiries.
• Assist the EHS Manager with maintaining, monitoring, and reporting on all EHS performance metrics.
• Develop, train and conduct site EHS meetings, training, and coaching programs to ensure understanding of EHS compliance with employees, supervisors and site leadership.
• Develop action plans to address deficiencies within the EHS Programs and work with site teams to identify corrective actions.
• Perform Job Safety Analyses, PPE assessments and make recommendations for improvement.
• Ensure the worker's compensation program is administered according to company guidelines. Completes First Reports of Injury and other records, maintains contact with workers' compensation carrier and ensures reports are submitted timely. Proactively conducts ergonomic assessments and makes recommendations to reduce risk. Collaborate with HR on accommodations and return to work programs.
• Participate in the Plant safety audit program, ensuring audits are performed as scheduled and data is captured, monitored, and used to drive improvements.
• Partner with broader EHS team on a wide variety of global EHS initiatives and projects across multiple EHS disciplines, including, but not limited to: worker's compensation, EHS policy, change management, environmental performance, regulatory compliance, sustainability and social responsibility.
• Manage, train, and develop EHS team members through mentoring, coaching and coordination of individual development plans. Provide performance feedback on an ongoing basis. Partner with HR on employee relations issues that involve safety.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Safety and/or Environmental or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of experience in safety and environmental management is required. Food manufacturing experience is preferred.
• 3+ years of experience leading direct-reporting team members.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven track record of implementing effective EH&S programs with positive results.
• Knowledge of appropriate federal, state, county, city and institutional regulations regarding food processing operations.
• Knowledge of Workers Compensation claim management, including managing internal processes and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of OSHA, EPA, ISO 14001, Federal, State, City and County standards and regulations.
• Good problem-solving techniques including knowledge of LEAN and/or Six Sigma methodologies.
• Strong ability to communicate across all levels of an organization.
• Effective training techniques to diverse audiences.
• Entrepreneurial and hands-on - committed to innovation, continuous improvement and moving beyond the norm.
• Self-starter, takes initiative, a driver for change, personable and approachable, collaborative, and passionate about their work.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines in a changing, complex environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel.

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.