Regional Safety Manager - Supply Chain - East

Nordstrom•Elizabethtown, PA

18h

About The Position

The Regional Supply Chain Safety Manager supervises safety leaders throughout the region, including recruiting, development, and performance oversight. The role develops environmental, health, and safety strategies and helps ensure employee safety and organizational compliance with applicable federal, state, and local safety and environmental regulations. As a member of the supply chain safety leadership organization, the manager works with cross-functional teams to enable, plan, implement, and support key safety programs. The position is field-based and requires travel. The manager enables leadership commitment, health and safety policy implementation, regulatory compliance, safety accountability, and an employee-engaged safety culture across the region. The role oversees risk assessments, hazard elimination, regulatory requirements, improvement goals, emergency preparedness, incident investigations, training, communications, audits, scorecards, and safety documentation. It also leads recruiting, hiring, and employee development, and supports transparency, diversity, and inclusion.

Requirements

Completed bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or equivalent military or professional experience.
Certified Safety Professional or Certified Industrial Hygienist certification (required).
8–10 years of experience in environmental, health, and safety, including leading facility safety audits.
5 years of experience managing people leaders.
Strong time-management skills and capacity to meet deadlines and adjust to changing priorities.
Effective written and verbal interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
Proficiency with the MS Office Professional Suite, including intermediate knowledge of Excel.
Ability to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

Supervise regional safety leaders, including recruiting, development, and performance oversight.
Develop regional environmental, health, and safety strategies.
Promote management and leadership commitment, policy implementation, regulatory compliance, safety accountability, and employee ownership of safety.
Use health and safety risk assessments to identify and eliminate hazards.
Deliver on regulatory requirements and establish performance improvement goals and action plans.
Implement emergency preparedness and response plans and support incident investigations.
Support safety competence and training throughout the region.
Ensure a communication and integrated business plan is implemented for each building.
Support safety audits across the network.
Oversee safety scorecards, safety documentation, and recordkeeping.
Recruit, hire, and develop employees in the region, providing a roadmap for continued development through safety competencies.
Conduct regular one-to-ones and quarterly review sessions.
Support an environment of transparency, diversity, and inclusion.