Workplace Safety Manager

Green Bay Support Office

Full-Time

ABOUT FESTIVAL FOODS:

We are a Wisconsin family- and employee-owned grocer that is committed to giving back to the communities it serves and providing guests with exceptional service and value. We operate +40 full-service supermarkets across the state of Wisconsin.

At Festival, people are at the top of our list. You’ll see it in everything from our daily interactions to how we treat our guests – even in our extensive associate benefits and programs.

Job title:                 Workplace Safety Manager

Department:         Asset Protection

Reports to:            Senior Director of Asset Protection

 

Reporting to the Senior Director of Asset Protection, this role is primarily responsible for promoting associate and guest safety by developing, implementing, and managing a comprehensive workplace safety program aimed to reduce the risk of workplace injury/illness.  The successful candidate will lead in the investigation of health and safety concerns and provide corrective and/or preventative measures; benchmark company and industry standards by developing strong reporting mechanisms and promote the company’s safety culture by effectively affecting behavioral change.

 

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

LEADERSHIP

• Team building:  Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members, demonstrates empathy, and communicates with energy and positivity to influence and inspire commitment and action. 
• Team development:  Creates a disciplined and focused approach around developing talent, succession planning, empowering team members to act in the best interest of the guest and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
• Team Leadership:  Leads a dynamic team that works toward a common goal.  Assign work tasks and plans to meet department objectives.  Provides direct leadership to the Senior Claims Specialist and Workplace Safety Specialist.  Prepares and delivers direct reports’ performance reviews.
• Oversees direction of Safety Leads and Powered Industrial Truck trainers roles and responsibilities
• Workplace Safety and Claims Management Strategy: Leads strategy and resource allocation of a dynamic team, supporting the areas of workplace safety and claims management.
• Long-range planning and project management:  leads development of the strategic plan and project creation and provides leadership and guidance throughout the life cycle of change initiatives.
• Compliance with regulations and standards: Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, and regulations related to asset protection and security. This includes staying up-to-date with changes in regulations and incorporating them into the organization's policies and procedures.
• Collaborating with stakeholders: Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, including support leadership, store leadership, regulatory agencies, and share groups to ensure a comprehensive and effective workplace safety strategy.  Partners with the Asset Protection Assistant Director to bridge a strong synergy between both Asset Protection and Workplace Safety and Claims Management departments. 
• Data Analysis: Analyzing data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern. Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies.
• Training and education: Assisting in developing and delivering training programs to educate employees on all Workplace Safety procedures, protocols, and guidelines. This includes conducting training sessions, creating educational materials, and promoting a culture of Asset Protection/Workplace Safety.
• Continuous improvement: Evaluate and improve asset protection strategies and measures based on industry best practices, emerging threats, and lessons learned from incidents.
• Actively seeks continuous personal and professional development:  Attends relevant conferences, webinars, lectures, and seminars to grow professional skills. 
• Maintain high level of integrity - This role reviews documents including for co-workers in office, safety leads, department/store directors.

 

 

WORKPLACE SAFETY

• Develops and execute a comprehensive workplace safety program that aligns with company standards as well as local, state, and federal regulations.

• Develops and leads audit processes, including detailed analysis to ascertain operational risks and assists stores in developing corrective and preventive action plans.
• Develops and maintains strong cross functional relationships with store and support office teams to ensure that safety and regulatory goals along with business needs are met in a cost-effective manner.
• Designs, maintains, and executes workplace safety training programs according to company needs

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining performance standards for store safety committees
• Develops injury and loss reports to identify trends; tracks and monitors company metrics including but not limited to injury rates, incident rates, OSHA recordables, etc.
• Leads In the root cause analysis of accidents and injuries for both guests and associates and the follow-up of corrective actions.
• Review all injuries – point of injury reports.
• Interprets policies, procedures, guidelines, legal and regulatory statutes as applied to Festival Foods processes and vendors.

• Responds to inquiries or concerns from associates, guests, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.

• Partners with Risk Management and Food Protection to promote safety awareness through teamwork, communication, education, and recognition programs
• Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.

• Complete additional duties as assigned by the Food Protection and Regulatory Affairs Director

• OSHA involvement
  • Oversee OSHA complaints, coordinating with store directors to ensure successful investigation, resolution, and response. Document all necessary items and draft response.
  • Oversee OSHA Rapid response related to injury.
  • Oversee navigation of onsite visits, possible attorney engagement, required actions for company to take, and follow up.
• Assist with development of emergency action plan development and review.

RISK MANAGEMENT

• Partner with finance to ensure impactful programs are focused on and executed. In addition, ensure all available programs related to various lines of insurance are fully utilized.
• Review company policies and emerging trends within claims to determine coverage and liability for new claims.
• Property insurance
• Facilitate property engineering visits through property insurance carrier - includes set up and responding to questions during audit to determine what is on after visit report.
• Oversee and manage responses to findings on after visit summary. Determine areas of business to partner with and ensure compliance.
• Oversee property improvements with AFM and property insurance (not related to workplace safety really - their focus is building security)

CLAIMS MANAGEMENT

• Oversees and ensures execution of a comprehensive claims management program that aligns with company standards as well as local, state, and federal regulations.

• Oversees, investigates, and approves reserves for high spend and complex claims.
• Oversee investigations process related to subrogation potential
• Handling of sensitive information, sometimes related to in office associates.
• Litigated Claims
• Oversees and manages legal aspects through timely assignment of litigated cases to defense counsel, and on-going evaluation of legal process and expenses.
• Respond to and facilitates discoveries, interrogatories, witness disclosures, depositions, expert witness disclosures, independent medical examinations, disposition or settling motions, pretrial filings and conferences.
• Oversee and review vocational reports and medical record reports related to various claims lines.
• Act as responder for litigated claims engaging with necessary parties - not limited to all areas of support store involvement. HR, Fresh, and Operations
• Sign on behalf and as agent of Festival Foods under notary as to happenings for litigated cases.
• Assist with deposition preparations, serving as bridge for internal associates and defense counsel.
• Approve settlement valuation and provide concurrence to recommended payments.
• Ensure legal compliance, adherence to claims processes, and timely payments
• Evaluate defense counsel strategy and effectiveness and determine process improvements based on impact of litigated claim outcome.

Qualifications

 

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health Science or a related field

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

• This position is officed out of the Festival Foods Green Bay Support Office
• Primary duties involve sitting at a computer at least 80% of the time.
• Traveling up to but not limited to 50% of the time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT HERE:

Associate Discount: Enjoy an industry-leading 15% off your grocery purchases for you and your immediate household!.

Weekly Pay & Premium Pay: Hourly associates are paid weekly, providing more frequent access to their funds. Part-time store associates are paid a $1 premium per hour on Sundays and select holidays. Hourly full-time store associates receive time and a half on Sundays and select holidays.

Two-Week Advanced Scheduling: Better Planning. Better Balance. We provide our associates with their schedules two weeks in advance, offering greater predictability & flexibility.

Vision & Dental Insurance: Part-time and full-time associates are eligible for vision insurance and two dental coverage options that are designed to fit your needs.

Support: Our associates receive support for their total well-being; including 3 weeks of paid parental leave, a fitness reimbursement program offering savings off of fitness membership fees; our EAP (Employee Assistance Program) and LEAPCare Care Coaches, which provide associates confidential care related to hospital visitation, conflict resolution, stress management, marriage or divorce, family issues and depression or anxiety.

Save for Your Future: Offering both a 401(k) and Employee Stock Ownership Plan, we’re proud to support our associates in planning for retirement by offering two retirement savings plans. The 401(k) plan empowers associates to save a portion of their paychecks for retirement. Festival Foods has an annual discretionary match to help our associates reach their savings goals. Our ESOP is a retirement plan above and beyond a 401(k) plan that gives associates “free” ownership in the company and an opportunity to share in Festival’s growth and success. Associates are given shares based on their years of service and earnings.




At Festival Foods we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We are dedicated to building a top-notch team of skilled, experienced and service-oriented associates. Festival Foods believes that an inclusive environment for teammates of all backgrounds and perspectives strengthens our ability to serve our guests and communities, as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.

Festival Foods will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed recruitment Master Service Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Festival Foods shall reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Festival Foods.

1724 Lawrence Drive

De Pere

WI

54115