Regional Safety Manager

Description

Position Summary

The EH&S Manager is responsible for leading environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) execution at the Anderson, Indiana manufacturing plant while providing dotted-line support to additional regional sites. This role is plant-focused and execution-driven, ensuring compliance, risk reduction, and continuous improvement in alignment with established EH&S standards.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain EH&S policies and procedures in compliance with local, state, federal, and international regulations (OSHA, NFPA, EPA, and other regulatory bodies).
• Maintain systems for reporting, investigating, tracking, and correcting safety incidents, near misses, and hazards; ensure root cause analysis and corrective action effectiveness.
• Establish and drive a proactive safety culture through continuous improvement tools such as safety committees, Gemba walks, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), Kaizen events, and safety orientations.
• Provide onsite leadership and support to our locations in Anderson, IN (home base); and routinely in Portersville, PA, and Milton, Canada.
• Partner with other regional safety leads to define and implement Keter’s safety best practices.
• Support and sustain a STOP (Safety Training Observation Program) or similar Behavior-Based Safety (BBS) program
• Conduct scheduled risk audits of operations to ensure compliance with company policies related to Federal, State and local OSHA, EPA and DOT regulations.
• Implement corrective/preventive measures to eliminate out of compliance audit exceptions.
• Establish long-term incident prevention strategies and cost control objectives, including reduction of workers’ compensation costs.
• Check on the use of all types of personal protective equipment, evaluate their effectiveness and suggest improvements where needed.
• Lead the review of all accidents and near miss accidents associated with the various plants. Identify root cause and implement corrective/preventive measures to eliminate accidents. Coach others on how to lead.
• Serve as the interface between the Corporate Risk/Insurance and Workers Compensation loss control representatives in order to fulfill Company risk management obligations.
• Oversee administration of employee physicals, safety incentive programs, for-cause drug testing programs, hearing conservation, CPR/First Aid training, and other industry specific safety training.
• Advise on setting of EHS targets/key milestones and monitor implementation and follow-up.
• Collect and track metrics associated with targets and milestones and report monthly on status.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in safety management, environmental science, industrial hygiene, occupational health, or other closely related degree.
• 5–8 years of EH&S experience in manufacturing or industrial environments
• Strong knowledge of OSHA and environmental compliance requirements

Preferred

• CSP, CIH, CHMM, or similar certification
• Experience in multi-site or matrix organizations

 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge of environmental and safety regulations and policies.
• Excellent analytical, auditing and problem-solving skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills.
• Creativity, innovation and the ability to solve problems and generate viable solutions.
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Prolonged periods of standing/walking on industrial floor.
• Must be able to lift up to twenty-five pounds at a time.
• Must be comfortable working around heaving machinery.
• Willing to travel to various sites as needed.