• Job Description

  Req#: 196341

  Job Details

  Job Location: Harris Ranch Beef Company - Selma, CA

  Salary Range: $90000.00 - $130000.00 Salary/year

  Job Category: Admin - Clerical

  Description

  Harris Ranch Beef Company is a family-owned company in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. Its founding over 30 years ago started an unwavering tradition of producing beef at its finest. An industry leader, Harris Ranch Beef Company controls all aspects of beef production, from our feedlot to our innovative processing facility. The end result is wholesome, grain-fed beef known throughout the West for quality, consistency, and delicious flavor. We owe our success to our friendly, driven employees who thrive in our fast-paced environment. To reward their hard work, we offer our employees a wide variety of competitive benefits to support their health and wealth, such as:

  • Health, Dental, & Vision Insurance
  • Weekly Pay
  • Career growth opportunity
  • 401(k) with up to 3% company match
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Vacation
  • Accident, Critical Illness, & Short-Term Disability Insurance

  Join the Harris Ranch Beef family and see how far your drive can take you!

  Job Description:

  Under the direction of the VP of Risk Management or designee, leads the plant environmental, health, and safety managers and EHS programs to ensure a safe and accident-free work environment. Implements company safety concepts to engage management and employees to drive towards world-class performance. Plans and/or delivers programs to train managers and employees in work site safety practices. Promotes plant safety by collaborating with all departments to assess the current situation and recommend safety enhancements. Analyzes accident data to identify trends and accident types that can be prevented. Develop, coordinate, and implement quality, cost-effective programs in the areas of Risk Management, Health and Safety Management, Environmental Management, Training and Education Management, and Security/Loss Control Management for the facility.

  Essential Job Functions:

  • Responsible for supervising EHS Managers at multiple sites.
  • Responsible for all aspects of EHS, including OSHA, and environmental record keeping, safety action item register, safety conference calls, safety audits, and accident investigations, ensuring compliance with all company, state, and federal policy and procedure.
  • Responsible for developing safety and environmental goals for the functions above.
  • Responsible for developing, with the VP of Risk Management, a capital project list to ensure OSHA compliance and hazard elimination. Monitors all safety-related capital expenditures to ensure that they are compatible with corporate objectives and state and federal safety legislation.
  • Serves as or obtains safety expertise for the various plant functions in dealings with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
  • Reviews Supervisors’ Reports of Injury to ensure completeness and that appropriate action is taken to prevent recurrence. Audits to ensure all injuries are properly reported.
  • Develop programs and procedures to assist department managers in complying with Federal/EPA and State of California laws dealing with Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know laws, including the Hazard Communication Program as it pertains to Company employees.
  • Ensure the facility complies with CalOSHA and environmental laws and regulations and corporate safety and environmental programs.
  • Coordinate the plant safety effort and ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements and company policies and procedures. Actively interact with employees to promote safe acts.
  • Anticipate, identify, and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.
  • Develop, implement, and administer hazard control methods, procedures, and programs.
  • Conduct and/or facilitate safety and environmental programs and CalOSHA-required training and certifications.
  • Conduct, measure, and audit environmental & safety programs, inspections, and compliance reports
  • All other duties as assigned.

  Qualifications

  
  

  Job Requirements

  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
  • Knowledge of Continuous Improvement Methodology
  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements
  • Possesses high leadership and team-building skills
  • Knowledge of environmental compliance
  • Ability to lead, direct, and supervise the work of others.
  • Ability to read blueprints, drawings, and plans
  • Must be well organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to interpret a variety of technical information in mathematical and/or narrative form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
  • Ability to work nights and weekends, depending on the demands of the business.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Safety, Business Management, Organizational Development, related discipline, or equivalent experience in a meat processing facility.
  • Experience developing safety programs, including working through high-performance teams to successfully implement initiatives.
  • Demonstrated experience with Environmental Compliance.
  • Bilingual is helpful, but not required
  • CSP is desired but not required.

  Physical Demands and Work Environment:

  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Approximately 2/3 of the typical work day requires physical in-plant and on-the-ground presence in the facility.
  • Position works in an office and production floor environment within a food production facility. This position must be able to work in areas that are hot, humid, or cold, surfaces may be slippery, and must be able to climb ladders/stairs.
  • The employee frequently is required to walk, stand, sit, use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust and focus.
  • When working in the plant, the work environment has moderate noise levels.

  Schedule: The typical expected workday for this position is from 6 am to 4 pm, Monday through Friday, with weekend work when the production floor is operating, evenings, and other non-scheduled times when required by the VP of Risk Management.

  Start your journey towards success, join our family, and let's grow together!

  Harris Ranch Beef Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates are evaluated and selected based on their qualifications for the job in question. We do not base our employment decisions on an employee's or applicant's citizenship, race, age, color, sex, religion, natural origin, sexual orientation, handicap, or disability, marital status, veteran status, reproductive health decision-making, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

• About the company

  Harris Ranch, or the Harris Cattle Ranch, feedlot is California's largest beef producer, producing 150 million pounds of beef per year in 2010.

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