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

Salary Range: $ 121,650 to $152,075 per year. 

Purpose of Position: 

To create a safe, healthy, and positive working environment at the facility for all Foster Farms’ team members. Responsible for facility’s compliance with local, state, and federal regulations pertaining to environmental, health and safety concerns (EHS). Developing, implementing, and managing all EHS policies and procedures. Managing incident investigations, tracking EHS metrics, workplace inspections, and recommending program modification or corrective actions pertaining to EHS issues onsite.

Essential Job Functions:

Develop, implement, and enforce governing safety and health policies and procedures and conduct incident investigations to ensure “root cause(s)” have been identified and that appropriate corrective action has been completed.

Mentor supervisors, team members, and management to develop a positive safety culture throughout the facility.

Maintain and analyze safety related data to develop trends and action plans. Prepare and deliver reports for management and guide safety committees.

Perform safety audits and inspections of the facility’s operations, as well as track findings and assign corrective actions to ensure closure.

Prepare and deliver selected EHS trainings and programs to ensure compliance with local and federal regulations.

Assist, enforce and monitor compliance with environmental programs for the facility; programs include Air Quality, Pesticide, Hazardous Material, Hazardous Waste, Industrial Wastewater and Drinking Water & Storm Water Programs

Qualifications

Requirements:

Must have a B.S./B.A. degree in safety or related field (ASP or CSP Preferred).

Must have a minimum of five years of professional experience in planning, developing, implementing and ensuring compliance with health and safety system programs and environmental programs.

Education and experience must clearly indicate the existence of specialized knowledge in critical health & safety programs and functions, such as medical management, behavioral safety process, facility auditing, incident investigation, and employee safety committees.

Knowledge of Cal/OSHA, Fed/OSHA and UFC rules and standards.

Must demonstrate good interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to read, write and understand English; Bilingual English/Spanish or English/Punjabi preferred.

Must be able to work in both individual and team work settings with minimum supervision.

Must be proficient in Microsoft Office applications, as well as health and safety network information systems.

Must be able to work varying shifts in varying environments including wet, cold and hot environments and must have regular attendance; must be able to occasionally audit/train on 2nd and 3rd shifts.

Must be able to stand on the production floor for varying amount of times with or without accommodations.

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.