Manager, Site Safety-Production Center

About Liberty

At Liberty Coca-Cola, we strive to make our workforce as inclusive and diverse as the communities we serve.  Our associates are our #1 asset, and we are committed to investing in our people, maintaining the highest safety standards, and creating a culture of growth and innovation.  We offer competitive compensation and benefit packages to full-time, regular associates, including: Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription drug plans, 401K with company contributions, paid vacation, company paid holidays, and more.  Discover what it means to be energized by a multitude of possibilities and a dynamic team. Join us here at Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages LLC.

Job Summary

Partners with leaders, employees, and multiple stakeholders to strengthen our safety culture and develop policies and processes, specific to a production center (PC) setting, protecting our most important assets: our employees, our customers, our communities, and our brands.

Responsibilities

What would success look like?

• Partners with the Plant Manager (as a direct report) to define, build, monitor, and continuously improve Liberty’s safety culture of “100% safe, 100% of the time”.
• Meets all regulatory and other stakeholder requirements specific to production, warehouse, and distribution settings.
• Creates and develops training tools, processes, and other programs for our operations team, management, and our employees to improve safety capability, performance, and culture.
• Create management routines, audits, and inspections to significantly improve safety performance within strategic business functions.
• Develop annual safety performance goals (LTIR, TRIR, etc.)
• Develop and implement/roll out systems, policies, and routines which continuously assess risk, set goals, drive accountability, implement best practices, and monitor/improve company safety performance.
• Develop comprehensive multi-year safety strategies for the assigned PC.

Responsibilities Continued

• Proven track history as a safety leader/SME, role model, and employee advocate who influences PC and Business Function employees and the site-specific teams.
• Creates PC and Business Function-specific safety metrics, measurements, scorecard, and reporting to significantly improve safety performance.
• Leverages data, assessments, and observations to identify risks, hazards, and root causes & corrective actions to prevent incidents and injuries.
• Completes and ensure safety reviews of all proposed plant projects/alterations, including but not limited to equipment safety reviews, equipment modifications, plant layout changes, etc.
• Issues stop work on any unsafe activities and ensure they are addressed appropriately.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• Willingness to learn or experience in regulatory compliance, incident management, and consumer affairs.
• Innovative, tech savvy, transformation leader
• Strong team leader and leader of self
• Strong collaborator who builds networks internally & externally for the company
• Effective verbal and written communication skills across a wide audience
• Effectively able to manage multiple projects and conflicting priorities
• Effective time management skills including planning, scheduling, and organizing
• Passion for winning, relentless execution, and strong drive for results.
• 10%-50% travel locally or nationally; some overnight required

Strongly Preferred

• Master’s degree in Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection, Environmental Science, Safety Management, Safety Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of management experience in the beverage industry.
• Experience with the Coca-Cola system, beverage industry, or consumer products
• Knowledge of Health, Sustainability, Environmental
• Strong ergonomics and EHS culture experience highly desired
• Additional Safety Certifications & Trainer Designations (First Aid/CPR/AED, Forklift/PIT, Defensive Driving, LOTO, Machine Guarding, 510 or 511 OSHA Instructor, etc.)
• Auditing Experience (ISO 45001, ISO 14001, etc.)
• OSHA VPP Experience
• Consumer Goods, Food & Beverages Experience
• Food Safety Experience
• Lean/CI, Six-Sigma, OE
• Experience working in union environments

Additional Information

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.