Health & Safety Manager

at  American Woodmark

With over 10,000 employees and more than a dozen brands, American Woodmark is one of the nation’s largest cabinet manufacturers. By partnering with major home centers, builders, and dealers, we spark the imagination of homeowners and designer and bring their vision to life. Across our service and distribution centers, our corporate office and manufacturing facilities, you’ll always find the same commitment to customer satisfaction, integrity, teamwork, and excellence.
We are on a journey to encourage an inclusive Woodmark, and are taking meaningful actions to promote diverse representation across every part of the business. Together, every team member contributes to making American Woodmark a place where people can express who they are through what they do.

POSITION PURPOSE:

Coordination of the planning, administration, implementation, and enforcement of the plant environmental, health, and safety policies to ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations and to meet or exceed established goals.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Align the plant EH&S vision with the corporate EH&S vision
• Develop and implement Plant Safety practices to create a safe working environment
• Develop and implement Plant Environmental practices to ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations
• Facilitates incident investigations, root cause analysis, and closure of corrective actions
• Manage Worker’s Compensation claims by investigating the circumstances of the claimed injury objectively, while minimizing costs and fraud. Act to prevent reoccurrence
• Accompany employees on initial visits to panel physicians. On occasion, attend follow-up visits as well
• Promote safety awareness; assist in safety and technical training
• Lead the plant’s Safety Committee with focus on raising safety awareness and creating an environment free of incidents
• Monitor and enforce environmental, health, and safety regulations
• Work with corporate EH&S on various projects and initiatives
• Work with Corporate Safety to develop, implement, and sustain a behavioral safety based program and serve as a safety liaison with Corporate EH&S to ensure consistency company wide
• Lead efforts to identify, recommend, develop, and implement best practice for AWC safety programs and help ensure standardization company wide
• Provides support and assistance to other locations when EH&S Coordinator/Manager positions are vacant
• Assists with the technical training of new EH&S Coordinators/Managers
• Conduct ongoing safety inspections of facilities, operations, and equipment to insure compliance and a safe working environment for all AWC employees
• Analyze work functions to develop safety, environmental, and ergonomic policies to ensure compliance
• Develop plant Ergonomics program and assessments to address ergonomic issues.
• Work with engineering and perform new equipment safety assessments
• Act as a professional liaison in case of government agency inspections concerning safety, environmental, or ergonomic issues
• Maintain updated OSHA and EPA required written programs and recommend / conduct training as necessary
• Conducts Industrial Hygiene monitoring of hazards including noise and chemical exposure and works to minimize exposure
• Administers and maintains MSDS Programs
• Develop local metrics to support and drive safety performance
• Actively participate on assigned teams and/or project
• Ensures Policies are followed and provides guidance on safety related discipline.
• Support and represent company as a union-free environment
• Conduct and maintain JSA’s to help ensure job safety
• Participate in the identification and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives
• Perform other tasks as directed by the Director of Manufacturing
• Supervisory Responsibilities:
• This position may be asked to supervise and EH&S Specialist or an EH&S Engineer. T his position will typically give direction to others in ensuring compliance with all state and federal regulations.