Environmental Health Safety Coordinator

Impact Confections is an innovative manufacturer of candies marketed under the WarHeads® and Melster Candies® brand names. WarHeads® are one of the most recognized (and tastiest!) sour candies in the world and the fastest growing brand in the market!

SUMMARY

The EHS Coordinator’s primary role is to develop, train and implement health and safety plans, policies and practices aimed at achieving a zero-harm working environment and culture. Serving as an enthusiastic champion, the role works towards employee safety commitment and not just regulatory compliance. The person in this role takes ownership of and exercises diligent oversight of the occupational safety function and reports metrics and KPI’s as required. Fully bilingual in English and Spanish strongly preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops and implements proactive programs to foster a culture of safety and accountability while ensuring compliance with all OSHA, federal/state/local laws and general industry standards.
• Communicates the Company’s safety vision and values with team members to ensure understanding, compliance and acceptance of the Company’s safety programs and policies.
• Ensures safety & health training and documentation meets or exceeds both Company and regulating entities requirements while preparing team members to safely perform tasks and jobs.
• Collaborate with management and department heads to establish and maintain a comprehensive safety training program for all employees, including Lift Truck, Lock Out Tag Out, Blood Borne Pathogen, General Safety Inspections, SDS, PPE, and Hazardous Communication.
• Implements and maintains an effective incident investigation process that exposes and identifies root causes, then formulates corrective actions to abate exposure.
• Drives continuous safety improvements, audits work areas, reviews incident reports and recommends enhancements to eliminate or reduce risk exposure.
• Creates and conducts organizational-wide safety meetings and safety training, as applicable.
• Ability to lead through influence and networking while working with cross functional teams.
• Updates and maintains required reporting mechanisms in an accurate and efficient manner, including SDS and OSHA 300/300A/301.
• Must also be able to work independently, motivated to achieve daily goals and objectives without direct supervision.
• Adheres to and supports all applicable safety and GMP practices while performing job duties.
• Provide the necessary support in audits of the department and those that the company has periodically.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health or related field.
• Minimum of 3 - 5 years demonstrated history of designing and implementing safety programs, preferably in a food manufacturing environment.
• OSHA 501, CSP certification preferred, but not required.
• Excellent knowledge of OSHA CFR’s, federal, state, and local regulatory standards applicable to general industry.
• Bilingual in Spanish. Desirable.
• Skilled at making verbal and written presentations and communicating with others.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office Suite of products.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

There are no supervisory responsibilities with this role.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Performs basic database updates, queries and searches, and printing of documents. Fluent in posting/updating opportunities on various regulatory or reporting websites.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to communicate with co-workers and/or read instructions or written standards for production in English. Bilingual in Spanish. Desirable.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to perform or learn mathematic skills as needed, such as basic accounting terminology.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out basic step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or limited variables.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel and daily required to walk, reach with hands and arms, and taste or smell. This role must frequently lift and/or move up to 30 lbs. and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.