About Grocery Outlet:

• Our Mission: Touching lives for the better
• Our Vision: Touching lives by being the first choice for bargain-minded consumers in the U.S.
• Our Values & Behaviors: Achievement, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Fun, Integrity & Service

About the Team:
The members of our Operations team are fun, focused, and business oriented. We are strong communicators and strive to help our business succeed by mitigating risk and loss. Our scope includes Environmental, Health, and Safety.

About the Role:
As the Manager of Safety & Compliance, you will support all employees in the Regional Fulfillment centers. You will ensure that employees follow all health and safety regulations, and you will work with Operations to be compliant with OSHA and environmental laws, standards, and regulations. You will collect and use safety data to create policies, programs or work instructions that eliminate workplace hazards, document accidents in the workplace and investigate the circumstances of an illness or injury.

This role would have knowledge of all applicable local, state, and federal OSHA and environmental laws and regulations in addition to basic food safety compliance. The Manager of Safety & Compliance reports to the Director of Safety.

Responsibilities Include:

• Inspect and verify company compliance with relevant safety regulations.
• Complete Hazard Assessments and Action Plan corrections.
• Develop policies, procedures, and programs to comply with relevant safety regulations.
• Maintain accurate and current training, injury logs, and maintenance records in accordance with guidelines.
• Analyze incident reports, metrics, and injury case studies to institute changes that lead to a safer environment.
• Advise DC business partners on safety issues and compliance on specific projects.
• Provide safety and environmental training for employees on policies, regulations, and procedures.
• Monitor the removal of biological, physical, or chemical hazards from the workplace.
• Prepare and communicate business updates monthly.
• Assess and recommend improvements and best practices to the hazardous materials and hazardous waste programs to manage risks and ensure compliance with local jurisdictions.
• Champion an action-oriented culture with a sense of urgency to identify and appropriately manage the safety and environmental risks at all warehouse locations.
• Maintain documented corrective action plans to include regulatory issues, near-miss events, accidents, and injuries.
• Communicate processes and tools to promote sharing of lessons learned from safety and environmental incidents and corrective actions.
• Identify training needs and deliver training and culturally effective training methods and curriculum.
• Provide training to management and employees while soliciting feedback to improve existing programs or create new ones.
• Ensure compliance with regulations published by OSHA and state occupational safety agencies.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with local regulatory agencies that affect the business including City, Fire, CUPA, and local OSHA personnel.
• Work with Human Resource team to drive compliance through a safety performance management program.
• Provide information and analysis in support of any administration, action or hearing, lawsuit or regulatory action involving safety/injury and EHS matters on behalf of the company.
• Travel is required and expected to be approximately 10% or as needed by a facility.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental health and safety or related field or 3-5+ years of safety related experience.
• In-depth knowledge of OSHA and EPA standards.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead a team.
• Great attention to detail
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to explain technical concepts in simple terms.
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to effectively manage multiple tasks/projects.
• Ability to foster strong working relationships.
• Ability to motivate and influence behavior change.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, work well under pressure, take initiative, be flexible and cooperative.
• Competent in Microsoft Office.

Preferred Skills:

• Bilingual in Spanish
• Advanced Competency in Excel

Physical Office Location:

• This full-time position will be located at the Sacramento Regional Fulfillment Center.