Safety Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Degree in food science, engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience.
• Strong leadership and managerial skills.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to operate across a large organization and many functional areas.
• Broad technical background combined with Kellogg product and process knowledge.
• Strong people, project, problem-solving, and influencing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple people, programs, and projects and work well in stressful situations.
• Ability to deal with stress and make sound decisions quickly, sometimes with incomplete information.
• Ability to manage large volumes of information and determine business-relevant issues.
• Ability to understand and work within corporate headquarters, manufacturing, broader supply chain, and regulatory environments.
• Ability to work a full shift, arrive on time, work overtime as needed, and follow the schedule necessary to meet job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Availability 24/7, including holidays and weekends, to handle RTEC issues and plant operational needs.
• Ability to undertake a high level of travel.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to establish and effectively implement the Kellogg Integrated Work System (KIWS), ensuring alignment of standards and approach.
• Build quality management skills, experience, and leadership within assigned direct and indirect teams.
• Provide technical guidance and interpret WK Kellogg global policies to develop and implement site-specific quality and food safety procedures that meet regulatory and company expectations.
• Manage on-site plant support for quality innovation and improvement initiatives with R&D leads, ensuring compliance with design standards.
• Support execution of supply chain requests (SCRs) and packaging work requests (PWRs) in accordance with WK Kellogg Co policy and design standards.
• Make decisions regarding quality, food safety, and sanitation matters at External Network plants, and keep management informed of significant matters.
• Ensure site-specific root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action (RCA & CAPA) training; conduct periodic mock recalls and inspections to assess process effectiveness.
• Use influence and communication—including quality reviews, conference calls, plant visits, management updates, and metric reporting—to advance quality objectives and report progress.
• Select, train, develop, direct, and motivate staff; promote diversity and recognition programs; and administer talent management, performance evaluation, and individual development planning processes.
• Provide significant input to plant QFS Managers’ development plans.
• Manage travel budget and four direct reports, balance plant assignment workloads, and prioritize teams to assist with plant problem solving.
• Ensure robust capability building that enables effective coaching and development with RTEC External Network plants.
• Investigate serious and escalated issues, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Work overtime as needed and according to the schedule required to meet job requirements.

Benefits

• Incentive plan bonus eligibility
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Savings and Investment Plan with company match and contribution
• Paid time off, including paid sick time
• 11 paid holidays
• Life insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Adoption assistance for eligible employees
• Employee recognition program