Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.**Why work for Dawn Foods?**
**PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.**
**Why should you apply? We invest in you!**
- Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
- Competitive Pay
- 401(K) + company match
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Time Off
- Professional training
- Family-owned business with over 100 years of service
- An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.
**Job Purpose and Overview**
This is a remote opportunity with up to 75% travel required.
**What You'll Do as a Regional Manager EHS&S at Dawn Foods?**
- Responsible for supporting and fostering the safety culture and compliance at Dawn facilities.
- Responsible for executing strategy and identifying opportunities to improve safety culture at assigned locations.
- This role has dotted-line reporting relationships and influence over EHS resources that work onsite at our facilities. This role is ultimately responsible for EHS performance in their assigned region while providing support to the Dawn North America EHS function and is expected to leverage influence and relationships to get work done through others without direct authority.
- Develop and mentor facility team members to improve their effectiveness as safety leaders.
- Responsible for the development, implementation, and management of safety, environmental, and security programs, policies, permits, and training to ensure compliance with company policies and government-mandated programs.
- Conduct site audits, inspections, evaluations, and reviews to ensure safety excellence.
- Provides technical support and professional expertise to the overall Dawn organization, inclusive of leadership, engineering, plant operations, and distribution operations.
- Consult with Engineering, leadership, and team members to identify and resolve potential EHS issues through engineering design changes or other means necessary.
- Support capital projects as the EHS expert.
- Ensure that safety records and documentation are maintained by company policies and legal requirements.
- Responsible for timely submission of environmental reports/permits to US regulatory agencies.
- Manage and oversee Dawn's DOT compliance with the shipment of hazardous materials at assigned locations.
- Lead compliance to applicable NFPA and insurance provider property recommendations (i.e., combustible dust, storage of flammable liquids, and property loss prevention inspections)
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of existing and proposed environmental health and safety Federal and State regulations.
- Supports EHS investigations and incident reporting including root cause analysis problem-solving, incident prevention, etc.
- Develop sustainable action plans to reduce incident rates & mitigate risk areas.
- Responsible for the follow-up of the workers' compensation claims for the facilities in partnership with the Worker's Comp corporate team.
- Perform plant, distribution center, and driver ride-along inspections, identify risks and non-compliance areas and develop action plans to correct deficiencies.
- Work with external and internal resources as needed for facilities and program design, professional consulting services, insurance and workmen's compensation issues, and regulatory compliance.
- Leads facilities in the assigned region to achieve Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) targets & objectives.
- Identify, develop, and track appropriate EHS training calendar/curriculum for the organization by job function.
- Responsible for the reduction/elimination of hazards and incident reduction within the Dawn facilities.
- Conducts trends analysis and reporting of results against key EHS metrics to drive reduction in injury & illness rates.
- Report on metrics and maintain safety systems to drive compliance, including developing detailed performance and tracking mechanisms for leading and lagging safety performance.
- Implement effective change management practices in all cases where change adoption is a critical element of improving safety & environmental performance, goals, or behaviors.
- Collaborate with leadership & people team to ensure that safety is integrated into all aspects of the company culture and employee engagement initiatives.
- Understand and promote the philosophies and policies of Dawn Food Products, Inc. supporting the Circle of Excellence.
- Other duties or assignments as needed.
**What Does It Take to be a Regional Manager EHS&S at Dawn Foods?**
Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.
- Bachelor's degree in a relev