Safety Manager (Louisville, AL)

Idaho Forest Group • Louisville, AL

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About The Position

The Safety Manager supports Idaho Forest Group’s safety program and ensures management awareness of safety issues, including annual budgeting requirements. The role establishes and prioritizes safety program goals, objectives, and procedures; identifies safety training requirements and provides training to team members; and implements accident prevention programs.

The Safety Manager assists with incident investigations, including root cause analysis, and implements corrective actions. The position performs workplace hazard analyses and environmental health and safety audits; prepares technical reports, Standard Operating Procedures, and safety and environmental policies; and presents these materials to others. The role requires understanding air and water emissions and non-hazardous and hazardous waste streams, as well as conducting inspections on schedules required by local, state, and federal permits. Other tasks may be assigned.

The work involves repetitive movement and a range of physical activities, including sitting or standing for a shift, reaching, stooping, squatting, twisting, pushing and pulling, balancing, bending, kneeling, walking varying distances, and climbing stairs. The employee must tolerate all weather elements, loud conditions, vibrations, and airborne particles such as sawdust. Employment is conditional on completing applicable pre-employment screening, which may include background, drug and substance, reference, employment, driving history, education, aptitude or skills, and credit checks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in physical or biological science, environmental science, environmental engineering, or a related technical or scientific discipline; experience in the lumber industry may substitute in part for formal education.
• Minimum 5+ years of industrial safety experience.
• 4+ years of supervisory or management experience.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, and Outlook.
• Ability to perform the listed physical activities and tolerate all weather elements, loud conditions, vibrations, and airborne particles such as sawdust.
• Completion of applicable pre-employment screening processes as a condition of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Industrial safety experience in a wood products manufacturing setting.

Responsibilities

• Support IFG’s safety program and ensure management awareness of safety issues, including annual budgeting requirements.
• Establish and prioritize safety program goals, objectives, and procedures.
• Identify safety training requirements and provide training for team members.
• Implement accident prevention programs.
• Assist in conducting incident investigations, including root cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Perform workplace hazard analyses and environmental health and safety audits.
• Write technical reports, Standard Operating Procedures, and safety and environmental policies, and present them to others.
• Understand air and water emissions and non-hazardous and hazardous waste streams.
• Conduct daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual inspections as required by local, state, and federal permits.
• Perform other tasks as requested.

What This Job Offers

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