American Foods Group, LLC has an opportunity for an Environmental Health and Safety Manager to join the team for our new AFG manufacturing facility in Warren County, Missouri.
The EHS Manager manages Company safety policies and procedures as well as ensures the Company is in compliance with OSHA, EPA and DNR regulations. This individual will offer new ideas while being conscientious, self-starting and striving for excellence in all areas of job responsibilities. The EHS Manager will also directly manage the health services department.
- Manage company safety and environmental policies and procedures, as well as ensure the Company is in compliance with OSHA, EPA, and DNR regulations.
- Offer new ideas while being conscientious, self-starting, and striving for excellence in all areas of job responsibilities.
- Key member of the plant’s leadership team.
- Assurance of compliance to all regulations and standards at site. Primary point of contact for safety and environmental issues.
- Investigate industrial accidents and incidents. Drive investigations to the root cause of issues and build consensus with both plant and corporate partners on permanent solutions. These solutions need to be created in a timely manner.
- Maintain liaison with national, state, and local safety and environmental organizations and take an active role in activities of such groups. Maintain federal, state, and local safety and environmental record keeping and permit requirements. Must be proactive in meeting all regulatory deadlines in both safety and environmental compliance reporting.
- Be engaged with all plant leadership down to the production floor. Use the relationships that you build to coordinate and conduct training to maintain compliance with federal, state, and local safety and environmental regulations.
- Primary contact person for inspection conducted by local, state, and federal safety and environmental enforcement agencies.
- Coordinate industrial hygiene testing.
- Specify and order safety or environment equipment beyond the store’s regular purchasing items.
- Facilitate safety awareness across a large manufacturing facility. This includes coordinating Safety Committee meetings, plant leadership briefings and meetings, weekly injury reporting and mitigation activities, and hands on activities promoting safety on our production floor.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
American Foods Group, LLC has a unique opportunity for a Human Resources Manager to join the team for our new AFG manufacturing facility in Warren County, Missouri. This is an amazing opportunity to build a Human Resources function from the ground up for a state of the art beef harvest facility just west of St. Louis, Missouri. The ideal candidate is someone who wants to get in at the very start to plan and build the function, and then transition to the HR leader for the facility when it is fully operational.
Summary
This role will support the new plant build team and will transition into the Human Resource Manager position for the plant. As HR lead, you will partner with the leadership team to understand and execute the organization’s human resource and talent strategy as it relates to building and staffing the new plant. The focus will be on working with corporate HR and plant leadership to stand up the HR function for the new plant, then building and executing the staffing and training plan for the plant as it ramps up to a 1300+ person facility.
The role will report to the build team initially and ultimately to the operational leader of the plant with a functional reporting relationship to the AFG corporate Human Resources department. S/he will have the opportunity to create a strategy to optimize HR performance within the plant that will achieve success by turning new strategies, processes and systems into people results that are the envy of the industry. The position will deliver the full range of HR services to plant management and employees, including recruitment, hiring, development, employee engagement and relations, and total rewards, as well as compliance with established human resource policies and systems, and applicable laws and regulations.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Strategically design, build and deliver all necessary HR services, programs and initiatives aligned with the plant’s business strategy and AFG’s Human Resources strategy. Act as a business partner, strategic solution provider, advisor, and counselor for the plant leadership team.
- Effectively manage, communicate, and build relationships with a culturally diverse workforce from plant hourly associates through the plant supervisory and management team. This relationship needs to be built on significant manufacturing floor presence by the Human Resources team. As part of this relationship, partner with supervisors/managers in handling conflict resolution, corrective and disciplinary actions as well as assist in conducting workplace investigations. Follow “open door” policy. Facilitate communications between English and Spanish speaking employees, both verbal and written.
- Partner with all levels of plant leadership to focus on employee engagement and retention efforts. Be an internal champion for maintaining a plant team effort to positively affect employee turnover. Drive the talent acquisition and training/development process.
- Develop a culture of continuous improvement. Coach HR staff to look for improvements in processes for both efficiency and results. Continuously review and evaluate all HR services looking for improvements in consistency, compliance, efficiency and employee retention.
- Manage and maintain legal and company compliance in all HR departmental activities including plant recruitment and hiring steps, I-9 verification, safety and health services reporting (where applicable), training programs, and various reporting requirements. Serve as general advisor on state, federal, and local employment law and government regulations. Specifically, ensure facility compliance with governmental regulations, such as: Affirmative Action (AAPs), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), etc. Oversee benefits administration.
- NOTE: this description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization; these duties are considered marginal.
Competencies
The competencies required for this position will follow the nine competencies set forth in the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM) Competency Model for HR Professionals at the Mid-Level or Senior Career Level or the Human Resource Competency Model of the HR Competency Study (HRCS) Round 7.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position does have supervisory responsibility for Human Resources generalists, talent acquisition, and other HR staff working in the facility.