Complex Safety and Health Manager

Role overview

Pilgrim’s is hiring a Complex Safety and Health Manager for its new Lafayette, Georgia facility. As part of the site leadership team, the manager will establish programmes, reduce operational risk and build a strong safety and occupational-health culture in a 24/7 food-manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Implement and maintain corporate safety and health programmes and site records.
• Investigate near misses, first-aid cases, recordable injuries, lost-time incidents and fleet events.
• Analyse injury trends, develop corrective plans and report performance to management.
• Conduct audits, monitor closure of findings and coordinate required training.
• Support workers’ compensation case management and work with occupational-health providers.
• Manage the departmental budget, personal protective equipment needs and site-protection services.
• Act as site liaison during regulatory and insurer assessments and support construction compliance.
• Promote return-to-work, emergency-preparedness and continuous-improvement programmes.

Mandatory qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in safety engineering, safety management or a related field.
• At least five years of safety leadership experience.
• Strong knowledge of workers’ compensation, OSHA, DOT and other relevant requirements.
• Leadership, communication, training and performance-management capability, plus proficiency with SAP or a comparable ERP system and Microsoft Office.

Preferred experience

• Food-industry or food-manufacturing safety experience.
• Bilingual English and Spanish communication skills.

The role requires schedule flexibility, occasional weekends, up to 10% travel and the ability to support a round-the-clock operation. Benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement matching, bonus eligibility and development programmes.