Safety & Occupational Health Manager
Description
Job Title: Safety & Occupational Health Manager
Reports to: Don Lunsford
Department: Safety/Medical/Security
Location: Beardstown, IL
Effective Date: 11/05/2025
Job Status: Full Time
Work Schedule: 1st Shift (Flexibility to work 2nd or 3rd)
FLSA Status: Salaried
Work Schedule: Flexibility Needed
Travel Requirements: 0-25%
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Supervisory Responsibilities: Yes
Job Summary:
The Safety and Occupational Health Manager is a professional who is responsible for identifying and assessing the safety needs and concerns within the organization, develop and implement policies to ensure a safe and healthy work environment and implementing various training methods to enhance the safety of all team members in the facility. This role also, provides support to the Corporate Team, General Manager, the Beardstown Management Team, Department Managers and supervisors and Hourly Team Members.
The Safety and Occupational Health Manager is a professional who is responsible for identifying and assessing the safety needs and concerns within the organization, develop and implement policies to ensure a safe and healthy work environment and implementing various training methods to enhance the safety of all team members in the facility. This role also, provides support to the Corporate Team, General Manager, the Beardstown Management Team, Department Managers and supervisors and Hourly Team Members.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Act as a consultant to management and employees on various safety, training, health and ergonomics issues.
- Insure that plant is in compliance with all government and corporate safety standards.
- Facilitate numerous training sessions to present employees with new information.
- Act as a support person for all production areas of plant.
- Review all accidents to determine trends and causes.
- Review all capital expenditure requests that have to do with safety.
- Perform plant safety audits weekly and perform random inspections of personnel to insure safety.
- Review and/or present safety related programs.
- Track and schedule safety related training.
- Handle all staff development within the safety, health and training areas.
- Job performance is measured by General Manager on the basis of injury/illness rates, worker’s compensation rates, accomplishment of safety goals and objectives and meeting corporate safety performance objectives.
· Direct involvement in interviewing, hiring, promoting and training new employees within areas of expertise
- Make promotion decisions based on the Evaluation Form, interviews and review of previous job performance.
- Delegation of tasks and authority is determined by departmentalization.
- Direct involvement in disciplinary procedures ranging from verbal warnings to termination.
- Administer monthly group meetings and other specialized meetings as need dictates.
- Work schedule fluctuates depending on what tasks require the most immediate attention.
- Responsible for some of the facilities environmental issues.
· Directly involved with all workmen’s compensation issues
· May require availability outside of normal business hours
Required Skills/Abilities:
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills-including phone etiquette.
· Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
· Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
· Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
· Ability to prioritize tasks.
· Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment.
· Ability to work as a team player.
· Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, 10-key or related software.
· Excellent Attendance (Internal candidates must have less than 4 points).
· Ability to work 6 days a week.
· Ability to be flexible with schedule when needed.
· Ability to Motivate and Challenge team members in a positive manner.
Preferred Skills/Abilities:
- Bilingual (Important but not necessary)
- Corty
- CPR/First Aid Training
- National Safety Council Training
- Confined Space Training
- OSHA Training Courses
- Program, Planning and evaluation techniques
- Coaching and Leadership Skills
Education and Experience:
- Associates/Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred but not required) or Equivalent Work Experience.
- Minimum 4 years’ safety experience, preferably within food processing industry (Preferred but not required)
Physical Requirements:
- Desk work
- Climbing stairs
- Frequent visits to production areas, environment consists of: Hot, Cold, Smells, PPE Required.
- Lifting, pushing, and pulling
The Applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:
Benefits:
- Base Salary: $79,417min- $96,492mid
- Health, Dental, Vision coverage begins after 60 days of employment
- Paid Time off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays
- 401(k): company match beings after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule
- Incentive pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and condition of the incentive program
- Career Development: Our Company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- JBS/Memorial Hospital Partnership
- On-site bank
- On-site cafeteria
- Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted meat sales
For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in states where it is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for any given position, compensation ranges are specific to those states and takes into account various factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant experience, qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiencies for the role.
This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled
The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.
About us:
JBS USA is a leading global provider of diversified, high-quality food products, including a portfolio of well-recognized brands and innovative, easy-to-use food solutions. We process, prepare, package and deliver fresh and value-added premium meat, poultry and retail-ready food products for customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents. We are also the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, the largest poultry company in North America. JBS USA employs more than 100,000 team members, and our corporate office is located in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, where our 1,200 team members onsite enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.
Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.
Our core values: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity
JBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE/AA/M/F/D/V
Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.