Festival Foods · 2 weeks ago
Workplace Safety Manager
US-WI-De Pere
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelFestival Foods is a Wisconsin grocer committed to community service and exceptional guest experiences. The Workplace Safety Manager role involves leading initiatives to ensure a safe environment for both associates and guests, developing comprehensive safety programs, and managing compliance with regulations.
CommunitiesFood and Beverage
Responsibilities
Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members, demonstrates empathy, and communicates with energy and positivity to influence and inspire commitment and action
Creates a disciplined and focused approach around developing talent, succession planning, empowering team members to act in the best interest of the guest and company, and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments
Leads a dynamic team that works toward a common goal. Assign work tasks and plans to meet department objectives. Provides direct leadership to the Senior Claims Specialist and Workplace Safety Specialist. Prepares and delivers direct reports’ performance reviews
Oversees direction of Safety Leads and Powered Industrial Truck trainers roles and responsibilities
Leads strategy and resource allocation of a dynamic team, supporting the areas of workplace safety and claims management
Ensuring compliance with applicable laws, and regulations related to asset protection and security. This includes staying up-to-date with changes in regulations and incorporating them into the organization's policies and procedures
Working closely with internal and external stakeholders, including support leadership, store leadership, regulatory agencies, and share groups to ensure a comprehensive and effective workplace safety strategy. Partners with the Asset Protection Assistant Director to bridge a strong synergy between both Asset Protection and Workplace Safety and Claims Management departments
Analyzing data and metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of concern. Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans and implementing strategies
Assisting in developing and delivering training programs to educate employees on all Workplace Safety procedures, protocols, and guidelines. This includes conducting training sessions, creating educational materials, and promoting a culture of Asset Protection/Workplace Safety
Evaluate and improve asset protection strategies and measures based on industry best practices, emerging threats, and lessons learned from incidents
Attends relevant conferences, webinars, lectures, and seminars to grow professional skills
This role reviews documents including for co-workers in office, safety leads, department/store directors
Develops and execute a comprehensive workplace safety program that aligns with company standards as well as local, state, and federal regulations
Develops and leads audit processes, including detailed analysis to ascertain operational risks and assists stores in developing corrective and preventive action plans
Develops and maintains strong cross functional relationships with store and support office teams to ensure that safety and regulatory goals along with business needs are met in a cost-effective manner
Designs, maintains, and executes workplace safety training programs according to company needs
Responsible for establishing and maintaining performance standards for store safety committees
Develops injury and loss reports to identify trends; tracks and monitors company metrics including but not limited to injury rates, incident rates, OSHA recordables, etc
Leads In the root cause analysis of accidents and injuries for both guests and associates and the follow-up of corrective actions
Review all injuries – point of injury reports
Interprets policies, procedures, guidelines, legal and regulatory statutes as applied to Festival Foods processes and vendors
Responds to inquiries or concerns from associates, guests, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community
Partners with Risk Management and Food Protection to promote safety awareness through teamwork, communication, education, and recognition programs
Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems
Complete additional duties as assigned by the Food Protection and Regulatory Affairs Director
Oversee OSHA complaints, coordinating with store directors to ensure successful investigation, resolution, and response. Document all necessary items and draft response
Oversee OSHA Rapid response related to injury
Oversee navigation of onsite visits, possible attorney engagement, required actions for company to take, and follow up
Assist with development of emergency action plan development and review
Partner with finance to ensure impactful programs are focused on and executed. In addition, ensure all available programs related to various lines of insurance are fully utilized
Review company policies and emerging trends within claims to determine coverage and liability for new claims
Facilitate property engineering visits through property insurance carrier - includes set up and responding to questions during audit to determine what is on after visit report
Oversee and manage responses to findings on after visit summary. Determine areas of business to partner with and ensure compliance
Oversee property improvements with AFM and property insurance (not related to workplace safety really - their focus is building security)
Oversees and ensures execution of a comprehensive claims management program that aligns with company standards as well as local, state, and federal regulations
Oversees, investigates, and approves reserves for high spend and complex claims
Oversee investigations process related to subrogation potential
Handling of sensitive information, sometimes related to in office associates
Oversees and manages legal aspects through timely assignment of litigated cases to defense counsel, and on-going evaluation of legal process and expenses
Respond to and facilitates discoveries, interrogatories, witness disclosures, depositions, expert witness disclosures, independent medical examinations, disposition or settling motions, pretrial filings and conferences
Oversee and review vocational reports and medical record reports related to various claims lines
Act as responder for litigated claims engaging with necessary parties - not limited to all areas of support store involvement. HR, Fresh, and Operations
Sign on behalf and as agent of Festival Foods under notary as to happenings for litigated cases
Assist with deposition preparations, serving as bridge for internal associates and defense counsel
Approve settlement valuation and provide concurrence to recommended payments
Ensure legal compliance, adherence to claims processes, and timely payments
Evaluate defense counsel strategy and effectiveness and determine process improvements based on impact of litigated claim outcome
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health Science or a related field
Benefits
Associate Discount: Enjoy an industry-leading 15% off your grocery purchases for you and your immediate household!
Weekly Pay & Premium Pay: Hourly associates are paid weekly, providing more frequent access to their funds. Part-time store associates are paid a $1 premium per hour on Sundays and select holidays. Hourly full-time store associates receive time and a half on Sundays and select holidays.
Two-Week Advanced Scheduling: Better Planning. Better Balance. We provide our associates with their schedules two weeks in advance, offering greater predictability & flexibility.
Vision & Dental Insurance: Part-time and full-time associates are eligible for vision insurance and two dental coverage options that are designed to fit your needs.
Support: Our associates receive support for their total well-being; including 3 weeks of paid parental leave, a fitness reimbursement program offering savings off of fitness membership fees; our EAP (Employee Assistance Program) and LEAPCare Care Coaches, which provide associates confidential care related to hospital visitation, conflict resolution, stress management, marriage or divorce, family issues and depression or anxiety.
Save for Your Future: Offering a 401(k), we’re proud to support our associates in planning for retirement. The 401(k) plan empowers associates to save a portion of their paychecks for retirement. Festival Foods has an annual discretionary match to help our associates reach their savings goals.
Company
Festival Foods
Festival Foods and our associates believe in community involvement, volunteerism, and Servant Leadership.
Founded in 1946
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2025-09-16Acquired
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