Global Health & Safety Lead

Global Health & Safety Lead – Full Time – Omaha, NE (Hybrid)

Wage:$110,000-$120,000/YR

The Global Health and Safety Lead (including duties of Regional Health and Safety Manager) provides subject matter expertise, strategy, and support to reduce injuries and risk, strengthen safety advocacy and assure environmental, health and safety compliance across the global program. They will lead the Health and Safety Program globally in addition to the regional management.

Experience in developing and managing an occupational safety program is required. Experience managing a team of safety professionals to deliver EHS services or support the EHS function is expected. Outstanding communication and writing skills are required; experience operating within a global framework as well as project management is extremely helpful. The role is highly collaborative in nature offering support to multiple work groups.

• Provides subject matter expertise on the design and implementation of all policies and procedures regarding safety, health and environmental measures and precautions for the assigned account.
• Defines effective implementation and utilization of risk assessment, risk prediction, risk prevention processes to identify and mitigate hazards; inspects/tours facilities; defines KPI’s, monitors accidents/near hits, and prepares required reports of organizational safety performance.
• Supports leadership globally in maintaining compliance with internal and external EHS policies/requirements, processes and procedures; manages change and growth.
• Partners with leadership to develop safety, health and environment KPI’s to drive performance improvement.
• Maintain knowledge of safety and health rules and regulations including international, federal, state, and local.
• Maintain and present the company’s safety metrics on a monthly, quarterly, and fiscal yearly basis.
• Responsible for assisting in the conducting of incident investigations, root cause analysis and communication of lessons learned.
• Develop accident investigation programs, accident trends, and programs for improving performance.
• Position is hands‑on and actively contributes to the program by participating in and/or leading activities of the various sites and operations.
• Fosters a culture of safety, hygiene, health and environment through definition of programs, systems and processes, policies and procedures that are compliant with applicable law and guidelines, and reflective of industry best practices – provides professional direction and/or guidance on health, hygiene and safety issues; consults on design and use of equipment, facilities, fire prevention, safety programs.
• Educate, train, and provide support to operations in the development and execution of consistent safety and environmental management programs.
• Collaborate with regional staff, corporate counsel, and stakeholders to monitor enforcement of standards and regulations.
• Process documents and reports periodically to program management teams to identify hidden risks or non‑conformity issues.
• Manage the performance of a team of Environmental, Safety and Health professionals, to include assisting with the creation of job descriptions, hiring, performance reviews, and other management responsibilities in accordance with human resource policies.
• Assist with the creation and management of the master statement of work for safety related activities and contracts.
• Manage client relationships and expectations through timely communication and interaction; measurement of client KPI’s and SLAs as outlined in the Master Statement of Work.
• Respond to formal and informal employee safety concerns, which include ergonomic assessments. Along with the conducting, coordinating and/or overseeing workplace assessments and follows up, as necessary.
• Assist in the maintenance of employee environmental, health and safety communications and training programs.
• Conduct annual reviews and audit related documents in partnership with operations to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and support framework for employee led safety committees across the team.
• Keep abreast of regulatory developments within or outside…