Company Description

Foster Farms has been serving families since 1939. Since the founding days, Foster Farms has always been committed to providing consumers with the highest-quality, best-tasting poultry products available. Our commitment to excellence, honesty, quality, service, and our valued TEAM Members will shine through in everything we do.

Foster Farms is always looking for talented individuals to join the Foster Farms TEAM. We offer the experience of a large organization, however, we operate like a family business. More than half of our job openings are filled by internal promotion, and we encourage TEAM Members to gain a variety of experiences across different functional groups.

Job Description

Pay Range $116,000-$136,500

This position provides safety leadership and strategic direction by leading the operations’ safety continuous improvement efforts at the site level. As a integral Safety Team Member, this position will support and advise site management about the safety systems; to enhance safe, quality production.

• Assist in a proactive local safety strategy that drives the location(s) safe, quality production.
• Lead incident investigations, identify root cause and ensure corrective actions are applied.
• Participates in developing a vision for safety, includes continual enhancement of established programs and consistent implementation of new programs within a team environment.
• The Supervisor will facilitate the development and sustainability of the safety culture, supporting the goals, behaviors, and actions of Foster Farms’ Corporate Safety Program and will act as a change agent to accelerate best practice sharing.
• Facilitate the safety programs for the site; recommend the design and implementation of new programs to prevent Team member injuries and minimize company losses.
• Monitors compliance of safety programs through audits, inspections, spot checks, and regular plant walk-throughs.
• Inspect equipment, working conditions, and maintain OSHA files and supporting documents.
• Regularly inspect and review plant operations to assure compliance of all permits operation and equipment are within state and federal regulations.
• Analyze incident statistics to establish necessary precautions and changes needed for facility safety.
• Communicates environmental, health and safety procedure changes to Business Partners; ensures all environmental, health safety policies, procedures, and practices are reviewed on an annual basis or as changes and updates are required by practices or regulation and are rolled-out in a timely manner.
• Conduct environmental, health and safety inspections and procedural audits and have the skills, knowledge, and ability to take immediate corrective action if/when required.
• Reviews all safety documents, policies, procedures, and incident reports.  Drive change through developing corrective actions related to root cause, indirect cause, and direct cause, as well as providing training on corrective actions to affected Team members.
• Investigates all environmental, health and safety-related incidents, reviews incident reports and completes necessary regulatory documentation.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of applicable federal and state specific environmental, health and safety regulations.

Qualifications

• An accredited College Degree in one of the following Occupational Safety, Health, Environmental Technologies, Engineering, Industrial Technology, or related field preferred or equivalent work experience in safety management.
• 3+ years’ experience in environmental, health and safety management preferred.
• Strong knowledge of safety regulations, OSHA hazard communications, accident investigation, and safety training methods.
• Must demonstrate ability to communicate well verbally and in writing; bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred. Must have good interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of industry best practices.
• Proficient in MS Office, data mining and report formatting.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from multi-level Business Partners.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to work a varied work-hour schedule including weekends, as business support needs arise.
• Ability to travel to other Foster Farms facilities for Safety support when called upon.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Foster Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities, Females, Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Foster Farms participates in E-Verify during the hire process at all locations for all new TEAM Members.