Safety & Continuous Improvement Leader

Kohler Co. • Bristol, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides leadership and ownership for Plant Safety and Continuous Improvement across the Bristol plant. Serves as the primary lead for coordinating and ensuring compliance with all safety requirements, standards, and regulations, while driving a strong, proactive safety culture.
Acts as a hands-on thought leader and change agent for Continuous Improvement, partnering with production and business process owners to identify, implement, and sustain improvements that enhance safety, quality, delivery, and overall business performance. Owns the development, implementation, and maintenance of standards, ensuring they are understood, applied, and sustained through effective training, coaching, and mentoring. Promotes Safety and Continuous Improvement as a way of working by leveraging Lean/CI principles, collaborative problem-solving, and data-driven decision making. Shares best practices across the organization and takes decisive action based on facts and performance metrics.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required with minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a role with responsibility for safety (safety professional or supervision of others).
• Minimum 2 years’ experience working directly with tools and methods in a Lean, Continuous Improvement or other known improvement system.
• Ability to teach, mentor, and coach across multiple levels of an operation (shop floor to Director of Operations) so that the customer can maintain and improve standard developed through kaizen events
• Proven ability to use systematic problem solving to solve technical challenges
• Professional communication ability – both written and verbal. Communicates succinctly with the customer (audience) in mind
• Excellent team facilitation skills. Build teams in a collaborative work style; Previous successful experience in team building and motivating others a plus.
• Leadership and Change Agent skills. Able to overcome obstacles using positive facilitation, teamwork, and influence through building and maintaining relationships
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Viso, Power BI, Sharepoint preferred
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of OSHA standards and Regulations is preferred.
• Knowledge of behavior-based safety programs a plus.
• Green Belt or higher Certification from known source preferred
• Lean Manufacturing certification / training a plus
• OSHA training and Fork-Lift training experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive improvement in Safety Culture through setting standards and Behavior Based Safety leadership. This includes responsibility for the site’s Injury Prevention Plan and other improvement activities to reduce injury risk.
• Develop program and training of Safety standards to all plant personnel as required by OSHA or other corporate site safety requirements.
• Responsible for leading the site’s Safety, Environmental, and Wellness Workplace Experience team and coordinating safety engagement activities like Safety Week.
• Maintain accurate records in accordance with OSHA and Kohler policies for injury and incident investigations including logging of injuries and hours worked into Kohler systems.
• Coordinate and perform / consult on PPE / JHA analysis and incident investigations.
• Responsible for the development of safety metrics and communication to all plant personnel.
• Responsible for full compliance with OSHA standards and regulations.
• Identify and Lead waste reduction, source reduction, or environmental impact opportunities, responsible for Hazardous Waste inspections and assurance for full compliance with government regulations.
• Manage any post injury and workman’s compensation processes in collaboration with Production and Human Resources.
• Leads / responsible for the implementation of the Kohler Operating System and Lean cultural improvements including training of problem solving an other tools.
• Lead/facilitate projects for improvement of key strategic business areas for the organization. Focused on Lean Waste reduction; this would include work-cell efficiency, lead time, inventory turns, Internal and External Quality (UFR & Warranty), Safety Incident Rate, Unit Productivity, and overall cost reduction.
• Monitors results to ensure improvements are sustained through the PDCA process, and process owners understand their role in maintaining the new standard.
• Demonstrates practitioner skill in the key facets of CI including: 5S, Visual Management, Standard Work, Value Stream Mapping, Error Proofing, SMED, Problem Solving, and Process Layout.
• Leads Development of operator support documentation and implementation of Standard Work and WI’s.
• Drives plant Continuous Improvement activities to create, maintain and improve business standards as it relates to key goals and metrics.

Benefits

• We believe in supporting you from the moment you join us, which is why Kohler offers day 1 benefits. This means you’ll have access to your applicable benefit programs from your first day on the job, with no waiting period.
• In addition, this position is eligible for a performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level