Manager, Occupational Safety

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To ensure a safe manufacturing environment, our Occupational Health and Safety Engineering team plays a crucial role in hazard prevention, conducting safety audits, providing training, and implementing risk mitigation strategies.

• The Manager, Occupational Safety is accountable for the performance and results of the Occupational Safety team. The role ensures the administration of plant-wide safety processes, emergency response planning, and compliance with regulations, with consistency in a timely manner.
• The role closely partners with Health & Safety leadership to address complex general and occupational safety issues and collaborates with various departments. The role also supervises the maintenance of accurate documentation, administration of investigations, inspections, and root cause analyses.
• The role has expertise in interpreting and administering corporate health and Safety policies, Safety regulations, and best practices, analyzing trends, and providing guidance to contribute to the company’s over‑arching effort to prevent employee injuries and illnesses and the elimination of hazards in the work environment.
• The role has limited to full management authority for staffing, performance, discipline, pay decisions, team development, and other personnel actions.

• Interprets and administers company policies and conducts programs related to risk assessment, hazard identification, incident investigations, inspections, audits, safety culture and engagement, etc. to prevent accidents and hazards at the workplace.
• Manages plant and facility-wide safety processes and initiatives including the company’s Safety Operating System (SOS), emergency response planning and training, and off‑standard approvals, with consistency in a timely manner. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local safety laws, regulations, and corporate policies through collaboration with the plant and network medical, security functions, and UAW Health and Safety representatives.
• Distributes and assigns tasks to the regional and facility Occupational Safety team, serves as a primary point of contact for regular inspections and audits to identify and assess workplace hazards, review new equipment for safety concerns, develop activity hazard analysis, complete preventive maintenance procedures, etc., and guides the regional and facility Occupational Safety team on accident prevention plans, and associated processes, procedures, and standards.
• Manages completion and timely submission of regional and plant-specific entry forms (as applicable) and physical plant entry for all projects, ensuring personnel have current safety training, drug tests, and any other plant‑required training before plant site arrival.
• Develops and monitors KPIs for tracking safety incidents, injury statistics, corrective actions, training hours, resolution time, etc. to ensure a safe and hazard‑free working environment, develops internal reports for senior Health and Safety management, Legal & Compliance, and onsite facility/plant management teams and presents trends, improvement opportunities, and other key findings. Oversees the maintenance of accurate records and documentation related to occupational safety matters in line with established policies and compliance requirements.
• Leads the administration of department‑specific ergonomics training, general and fire safety trainings, machinery and equipment safety trainings at plant locations, energy control and power lockout, root cause analysis, new hire orientation, management safety training, etc. Conducts assessment to identify the need for new training programs and administers the same. Provides guidance and support to managers with respect to general and occupational safety‑related queries.
• Communicates effectively with statutory authorities, regulatory bodies, and corporate representatives and resolves safety issues and risks…