Regional Safety Director

Company Details

Darling Ingredients repurposes and recycles materials from the animal agriculture and food industries - transforming them into essential ingredients that do everything from feeding animals to fertilizing crops to fueling planes and nourishing people. We're the number one publicly traded company of our kind, operating a global family of brands and businesses that span more than 260 facilities in over 15 countries. Our unique scale allows us to make entire industries less wasteful and more sustainable, helping move the world toward a more circular economy.

Darling Ingredients offers full time employees a full suite of benefits including but not limited to the following: 401(k), Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, and Paid Time Off.

Territory: WEST

Job Summary

This position reports to the VP of Safety Management and will lead a proactive and collaborative team approach to promoting a culture of health and safety excellence. In partnership with Senior Operations Leadership, this leader will support their region achieve or exceed annual targets for leading indicators, injury rate reductions, and other elements of safety improvement. This leader will ensure and support the timely delivery of our company safety strategy, programs, processes, projects, and objectives for the region assigned to serve.

The Regional Safety Director will provide General Managers, Plant Managers, and Plant Safety Coordinators safety culture enabling leadership, reliable technical support and expertise, timely direction and decision making, and ensure safety programs are effectively adopted and executed with quality. In partnership with other safety practitioners, this leader will be innovative, and take industry leading approaches to drive continual improvement.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• Serve as a primary health and safety expert, providing functional safety leadership and technical support within assigned Darling Ingredients North America region with the primary objective of reducing risk and preventing work-related injuries, vehicle incidents, regulatory violations, and other unwanted incidents.
• Works directly with all leadership and employee teams at all levels to foster a culture that recognizes safety as a core value. Leads by example and aims to responsibly engage and serve.
• Responsible for ensuring the timely delivery of the company safety strategy, programs, processes, projects, change management initiatives and other objectives. Directly assists operations leadership with the implementation and/or execution of technical solutions and expectations.
• Monitors, reviews, and analyzes safety performance and trends identifying appropriate initiatives and differentiators to enable continual improvement. Understands how to effectively leverage safety management software data to analyze performance, and prioritize support efforts.
• Implements solutions that will support regional management's efforts to control risk, and improve and/or maintain company, federal, state, local and industry regulations.
• Timely communicates all findings, concerns and deficiencies to the responsible management team, and ensures that issues, concerns, and deficiencies are corrected per pre-defined and agreed processes.
• Facilitate process and performance improvement plans unique to sites, locations, and teams with substandard safety performance. In partnership with management and other stakeholders, document results and track for sustained improvement.
• In a supportive manner, coaches teams and individuals in the moment when opportunities to correct at-risk behaviors are observed. Equally important, recognizes and reinforces those working safely and following safety standards.
• Partners with Engineering, Fleet Operations, Human Resources, Legal, Risk Management, and other business partners serving as an internal driver and regulatory expert in response to injuries, accidents, and regulatory matters. Directly engage and support in the investigation and mitigation of major injuries, accidents, incidents, and regulatory events. Coordinate, manage, and lead the regulatory agency response within assigned region.
• Support the delivery of internal and/or external safety auditing processes, and the actions needed in response to opportunities and/or deficiencies.