Senior Safety and Security Manager

Perdue Foods is part of Perdue Farms, a family-owned company heading into its second century of growth and innovation. With a goal of becoming the most trusted name in premium proteins, we create products for consumers and for retail and foodservice customers around the globe, while changing the way animals are raised for food.

Summary

Join our team as a Senior Safety and Security Manager and play a critical role in shaping a world class safety culture at our Accomac, Virginia food manufacturing complex. In this high impact leadership role, you will lead safety and security efforts through continuous improvement, serving as a trusted technical expert and strategic partner to operations leadership. You will help translate strong safety, health, and security practices into measurable operational results while supporting a safe, secure, and high performing environment for all associates.

Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead all safety & security efforts for the Lewiston manufacturing complex and Perdue Farms’ eastern North Carolina field operations.  Manage live production and garage safety in conjunction with the non-collocated safety director, safety for live production and garage/transportation operations non-manufacturing facilities located within the vicinity of the primary assignment.  Total: 1800 FTE’s supported.
• Directly lead & manage daily activities and personnel matters of the facility and its security contract personnel to ensure resources are effectively and consistently employed in the organization.
• Lead facility security team/guard force in managing security processes to include developing/ administering site security practices and policies, supporting and tracking required key performance indicators including training objectives, and timely completion of site surveys and or audits.
• Provide technical expertise for cross functional teams to ensure safe operational processes and capital/engineering projects. Collaborate with functional experts in vehicle safety, corporate security, environmental, PSM, and other areas to align facility activities and objectives. Provide interpretations for OSHA, NFPA, DHS, DOT, and other pertinent regulations to ensure processes and policies comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Continuously interact with the hourly work force to promote safety awareness, drive associate engagement, and ensure a world-class safety culture exists within the operations supported.  Works aggressively to resolve safety issues and concerns.
• Lead site safety business plan development by analyzing relevant data and tracking/reporting facility and corporate KPIs/metrics.  Validate plan’s actions through internal safety and security auditing tracking findings through closure.
• Provide training support for the organization and ensure that all required safety training is effectively completed on time.
• Ensure effective investigations on all safety and security incidents are completed, participating actively during complex and high impact investigations. Ensure root cause is determined and appropriate corrective actions developed, tracking recommendations to closure.  Utilize incident data to develop action plans to address hazards and emerging trends.
• Lead member of the incident command team and required to respond and or direct emergency response activities.
• Liaison for 3rd party assessments, audits, & inspections, i.e. insurance carriers, local fire department, risk engineering firms, OSHA, DHS, etc.
• Maintain working relationships with permanent and temporary contractors to validate their safe work practices and support their activities to maintain a superior safety environment at the facility.

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental, Safety & Heath, or Industrial Health Management, or Occupational Health & Safety, or a related degree such as Safety Engineering.
• 10+ years’ experience in manufacturing safety management with multi-site responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience leading a world-class safety program which has achieved <2.0 TRIR.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.
• Industrial and food safety health knowledge.
• Thorough knowledge of OSHA requirements.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Excellent grammar and writing skills.
• Strong supervisory skills, particularly supervising off-site personnel.
• Proven ability to lead and influence others.
• Ability to establish positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communication and interpersonal skills to effectively manage and motivate employees and communicate objectives and action plans.
• Ability to research pertinent facts, data and other information from internal and external sources.
• Proficient use of computer and corresponding programs – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OHM, SAP.
• Ability to implement behavioral-based safety techniques to improve/maintain safety performance.
• 40-hour HAZWOPER certification and current annual 8-hour HAZWOPER refresher.
• CPR/First Aid certification or willingness to obtain.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Environment, Safety & Health Certified from the Board of Safety Professional (CSP) or the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH).

Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors

• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
• May need to access files, supplies, and equipment.

When in a facility environment:

• Exposure primarily consists of dry concrete floors which include metal and plastic grating surfaces.
• Exposure to extreme temperatures as low as 28 Degrees Fahrenheit.
• Humidity (0-100%)
• May handle product 25-50 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Adhere to all safety rules including PPE, preventing, and reporting unsafe acts and conditions, Lockout-Tagout procedures and Process Safety Management related matters.
• Able to stand for several hours.
• Work may include lifting (35 to 65 lbs.) to heights from 5" to 84", reaching, bending, pushing boxes on conveyor assembly.

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.