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Are you an ambitious, compliance-focused Food Safety/Quality Assurance professional that excels in highspeed work environments; evaluating processes, and identifying opportunities to mitigate deficiencies? Then join Smithfield Foods, a $15 billion global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer! For more information, visit www.smithfieldfoods.com, and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

As part of our FS/QA team, you would conduct routine sanitation checks, ensuring that HAACP and USDA regulations are strictly enforced. Providing technical expertise to track product from start to finish, and develop corrective actions when needed. You will be responsible for ensuring that we are able to safely deliver the best Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, or any of our product brands to customers and consumers.

The Environmental, Safety, and Health Manager has overall accountability for the development and implementation of worker safety and health policy and procedures, and environmental compliance programs at the facility.  The Manager is to be the resident expert regarding worker compensation laws, OSHA industrial workplace requirements, and federal/state/local environmental regulations, and they will be the key facility ISO certification representative.   

Core Responsibilities

1. Manage the safety and health process to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations and company standards. Complete annual reviews of each program, including review and updates of plant procedures. Complete employee exposure surveys throughout the plant as necessary.  Encourage health/wellness programs and assist with injury/illness prevention and correction. Track and reduce worker’s compensation costs, absenteeism, and turnover by ensuring quality health care is provided following incidents involving plant workers.  Review and monitor all accident investigation reports through to completion, including participation in claim reviews, mediations, and hearings.  Key Measurements:  Number of OSHA violations, Employee Turnover Rate, Number of Accidents, Costs and Number of Worker’s Compensation claims, FSRMP/EIPMS/SCAP audit results.
2. Coordinate facility environmental programs which may include writing and revising the following plans: Asbestos O&M, Risk Management, Emergency Response, Chemical Handling, SPCC, SW3P, Air Compliance/Air Permits and New Chemical Approval. Train facility personnel on Environmental Standard Operating Procedures. Complete and submit applications for environmental permits to agencies in timely manner to ensure no lapse in coverage. Maintain EMS programs, assist in internal EMS audits and address questions and concerns regarding the program. Reporting to plant  management on environmental items as requested. Schedule and lead monthly EMS team meetings. Follow company policies and report non-compliance within the facility to appropriate individuals for correction and or re-training.

3. Ensures facility compliance with environmental permits and plans including but not limited to wastewater permit, air permit, storm water permit, SPCC Plan. Includes report preparation and permit application submission. Ensures facility conformance to ISO 14001 (Environmental Management Systems) program requirements. Provides assistance in achieving Smithfield sustainability goals including water conservation, energy conservation, zero waste to landfill, food loss and waste reduction.

4. Insert all environmental, ISO, Process Safety Management/Risk Management Plan and plant Sustainability program documentation into company electronic management systems.  Lead/facilitate plant ISO certification management teams, process safety teams, and documentation control requirements.  Key Measurements:  WEBEMS, SMS, ISO PSM entries updated and action items complete, few or no internal and external audit findings  
5. Train production employees and management staff as required by OSHA, environmental permits and environmental/emergency response regulatory programs, and company standards.  Key Measurements:  Training completed by annual or other established due dates. 
6. Review capital expense requests, new chemical purchase requests, and other plant changes (i.e., refrigeration system changes, land disturbance, equipment modification) prior to implementation, so environmental, health, and safety program impacts are discussed and required permits/notifications are made to regulatory authorities.
7. Key Measurements:  Permits received prior to project initiation
8. Understand and facilitate the Process Safety Management/Risk Management Plan program requirements for the ammonia refrigeration system.  Lead internal and external release reporting requirements for ammonia and other chemicals to the environment. Key Measurements:  proper release reporting policy followed, successful PSM audits, both external and internal