Regional Food and Safety Manager

BJ's Wholesale Club

86d • $100,500

About The Position

Join our team of more than 34,000 team members, supporting our members and communities in our Club Support Center, 235+ clubs and eight distribution centers. BJ’s Wholesale Club offers a collaborative and inclusive environment where all team members can learn, grow and be their authentic selves. Together, we’re committed to providing outstanding service and convenience to our members, helping them save on the products and services they need for their families and homes.

Requirements

• Experience in safety management and risk mitigation.
• Knowledge of OSHA regulations and compliance.
• Ability to conduct training and educate team members on safety practices.
• Strong analytical skills to identify trends and root causes.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with various stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in food safety management.
• Familiarity with chemical safety and usage.
• Previous experience in a retail or warehouse environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all WC/GL claims in over 25+ clubs.
• Aides in the initial collection of statements and documentation for all incidents/accidents involving team members and/or members.
• Identifies trends and root-causes to continuously improve and coach best practices as it relates to safety.
• Partners closely with all clubs to determine best plan of action to address trends within their building and validates actions plans are providing results.
• Implements best practices as it relates to proper and efficient chemical usage.
• Trains and educates team on chemical knowledge.
• Monitors chemical usage and ordering to minimize over-ordering.
• Monitors PPE utilization to ensure team member safety.
• Follow up on all accidents real time gathering all relevant information with partnership of Investigations team to limit BJs liability.
• Advises on level of accountability by partnering with HR business partners as needed based on unsafe acts performed by team members.
• Reviews trends at regional level to improve overall safety within region.
• Conducts Risk Assessments in each club in assigned region focusing on Safety & Food Safety, following up on clubs opportunities and putting key strategies in place to correct.
• Key stakeholder in Bottom Quartile program for WC/GL working closely with RDO and CMs.
• Monitors charge out reports and incident rate reports monthly to ensure clubs are properly charged and actions are taken to address all trends to reduce company liability.
• Responsible for handling all regulatory visits, ensuring all opportunities are addressed so that clubs remain in compliance and minimize chance of fines and violations.
• Available and On-Call 24 hours/7 days a week supporting safety and food safety.
• Responds and investigates all accidents occurring in club locations to determine root cause and analysis.
• Conduct rapid response investigation for all forklift accidents to determine mitigating factors and swift training and accountability.
• Lead zoom calls with RDO, RFSS, HRBP to ensure proper retraining and accountability is followed through.
• Monitor and review all safety checklists are being conducted accurately and all opportunities are being addressed timely.
• Conduct club steel walks to identify potential hazards and implement immediate action to fix permanently.
• Determine root cause of damaged uprights/track to ensure they are replaced in a timely manner.
• Weekly forklift video validation to create awareness of unsafe driving before accidents happen.
• Weekly APS training calls focused on Food & Safety.
• Handle OSHA complaints ensuring clubs are following policy and will pass an OSHA inspection.
• Conduct routine visits monitoring perishable areas food safety standards, immediately responding to 911 issues.
• Find root cause (video validation) and conduct all required knowledge-based retraining.
• Build and maintain partnership with all Federal / Local Government agencies to proactively pass all health department visits.
• Investigate root cause of product coming in not at product temp.
• Work closely with Ecolab vendors on all pest prevention and elimination strategies.
• Conduct routine club inspections proactively identifying and correcting pest infestations.
• Organize and lead TMs and Ecolab in overnight pest clean outs to remove and prevent future infestations.
• Schedule trainings in new club catalog in the following areas: Food safety, Safety, Chemical in all perishable areas.
• Support during opening and ensure club passes health department permitting inspections.

Benefits

• BJ’s pays weekly.
• Eligible for free BJ's Inner Circle and Supplemental membership(s).
• Generous time off programs including Vacation, Personal, Holiday, Sick, Bereavement Leave, Jury Duty.
• Benefit plans including three medical plans, Health Savings Account (HSA), two dental plans, vision plan, flexible spending.
• 401(k) plan with company match.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees