EHS Supervisor

Who we are:

Harris Ranch Beef Company is a family-owned company in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. Its founding over 30 years ago started an unwavering tradition of producing beef at its finest. An industry leader, Harris Ranch Beef Company controls all aspects of beef production, from our feedlot to our innovative processing facility. The end result is wholesome, grain-fed beef known throughout the West for quality, consistency, and delicious flavor. We owe our success to our friendly, driven employees who thrive in our fast-paced environment. To reward their hard work, we offer our employees a wide variety of competitive benefits to support their health and wealth, such as:

• Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• Weekly Pay
• Career growth opportunity
• 401(k) with up to 3% company match
• Life Insurance
• Paid Vacation
• Accident, Critical Illness, & Short-Term Disability Insurance

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Position Summary:

Under the direction of the EHS Director, leads the plant's environmental, health, and safety programs to ensure a safe and accident-free work environment. Implement company safety concepts to engage management and employees. Plans and/or delivers programs to train managers and employees in work site safety practices. Promote plant safety by working with all departments to analyze the current situation and recommend safety improvements. Analyzes accident data to identify trends and types of accidents that can be prevented. Develop, coordinate, and implement quality, cost-effective programs in Safety and Environmental Management for the facility.

Essential Job Functions:

• Responsible for supervising Safety Technicians.
• Responsible for all aspects of EHS, including OSHA, environmental record keeping, safety action item register, safety conference calls, safety audits, and accident investigations, ensuring compliance with all company, state, and federal policy and procedure.
• Responsible for developing safety and environmental goals for the functions above.
• Serves as or obtains safety expertise for the various plant functions in dealings with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• Reviews Supervisors’ Reports of Injury to ensure completeness and that appropriate action is taken to prevent recurrence. Audits to ensure all injuries are properly reported.
• Develop/implement programs and procedures to assist department managers in complying with Federal/EPA and State of California laws dealing with Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know laws, including the Hazard Communication Program as it pertains to Company employees.
• Ensure the facility complies with CalOSHA and environmental laws and regulations, and corporate safety and environmental programs.
• Coordinate the plant safety effort and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and company policies and procedures. Actively interact with employees to promote safe acts.
• Anticipate, identify, and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.
• Develop, implement, and administer hazard control methods, procedures, and programs.
• Conduct and/or facilitate safety and environmental programs and CalOSHA-required training and certifications.
• Conduct, measure, and audit environmental & safety programs, inspections, and compliance reports
• All other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of Continuous Improvement Methodology
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements
• Possess high leadership and team-building skills
• Knowledge of environmental compliance
• Ability to lead, direct, and supervise the work of others.

• Ability to read blueprints, drawings, and plans
• Must be well organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical information in mathematical and/or narrative form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to work nights and weekends, depending on the demands of the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Safety, Business Management, Organizational Development, related discipline or equivalent experience in a meat processing facility.
• Experience developing safety programs, including working through high-performance teams to implement initiatives successfully.
• Demonstrated experience with Environmental Compliance.
• Bilingual is helpful but not required
• CSP is desired but not required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Approximately 2/3 of the typical workday requires physical in-plant and on-the-ground presence in the facility.

• The typical expected workday for this position is from 6 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday, with weekend work when the production floor is operating, evenings, and other non-scheduled times when required by the EHS Director or VP of Risk Management.
• Position works in an office and production floor environment within a food production facility. This position must be able to work in areas that are hot, humid, or cold, surfaces may be slippery, and must be able to climb ladders/stairs.
• The employee frequently is required to walk, stand, sit, use hands and fingers to handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust and focus.
• When working in the plant, the work environment has moderate noise levels.

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Harris Ranch Beef Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated and selected based on their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decisions on employees' or applicants' citizenship, race, age, color, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or disability, marital status, veteran status, reproductive health decision-making, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.