If you enjoy the outdoors, helping small companies strengthen their safety management efforts, and want a rewarding
career position, this may be the perfect fit. Midwestern Insurance Alliance is seeking a full-time safety professional to
join our Loss Control team. The selected individual with meet with current and prospective workers’ compensation
policyholders largely, but not exclusively, within the mechanized logging and trucking industries.
The primary goals of the Loss Control Consultant are to provide insight and information about employers’ operations
and safety programs to assist in the workers’ compensation underwriting process and to assist existing policyholders in
preventing employee injuries.
This is a remote position which includes frequent travel throughout Arkansas and portions of the surrounding states.
Key responsibilities:

• Conduct assigned loss control surveys (both onsite and telephonic), including assessing existing safety
  management processes and observing policyholders’ work sites to evaluate injury exposures and to determine
  the existence and use of appropriate controls for the exposures.
• Write professionally worded reports that include a detailed summary of the policyholder’s operation and safety
  management practices, as well as descriptions of the deficiencies and/or opportunities for risk improvement.
• Provide meaningful recommendations and appropriate safety information to policyholders to assist in
  recommendation compliance and/or proactive safety training and education of their employees.
• Schedule assigned work according to requested due dates set by management

If interested see below.

Health & Safety Manager – Ditch Witch

JOB SUMMARY:
The position will assist in ensuring compliance with all Federal, State, Local, and Corporate Health and Safety requirements while building a culture of H&S excellence.  The Health and Safety Manager must be skilled in interpreting and complying with regulations that apply across business operations, exhibit excellent leadership skills, and be able to work across functional boundaries to achieve a zero-harm culture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly with Ditch Witch Health and Safety to develop and implement the TTC Global EHS Governance Manual across Ditch Witch employing proactive safety processes
  • Support effective behavioral based safety programs across Ditch Witch beginning with, but not limited to, the SafeStart  and DuPont STOP programs
  • Develop effective relationships with all levels of the organization
  • Administer mandated programs including, but not limited to hearing conservation, safety eye wear program, machine guarding, bloodborne pathogens, respiratory protection, hazard communications, and personal protective equipment
  • Assure reporting, including online reporting of health and safety requirements, is timely and accurate
  • Engage leadership across the organization to drive safety and health excellence across Ditch Witch with the goal of a zero-harm culture
  • Lead the continuation of Job Safety Analysis throughout our facilities to support continuous improvement through thoughtful comprehensive hazard identification and risk mitigation
  • Provide pertinent data for the daily, weekly, and monthly safety scorecards consistent with Toro requirements supporting continuous improvement of EHS systems including corrective action completion, compliance inspections and hazard identification
  • Manage departmental team members to:
    • Engage employees and provide opportunities for involvement on the safety team
    • Assure site safety team is staffed with a standard agenda & expectations and supported by local management including but not limited to scheduled audits, meetings, publishing/posting of minutes, and oversight of site health and safety metrics
    • Assure each location maintains a corrective action log to address concerns from employees, audits, and inspections
    • Provide ergonomic engineering assessment of manufacturing processes and equipment 
    • Maintain facility safety data sheet (SDS) files to assure they are complete
    • Complete powered industrial equipment training and maintenance of related records 
  • Train employees on company safety policies and procedures assuring all training is current and records are maintained including new employee orientation
  • Assist in new hire orientation including hazard identification training and new hire refresher training
  • Provide injury management support including checking on injured employees, coordination with Supervisors and coordination of onsite medical management
  • Support site management during incident investigations as required and implement effective countermeasures as appropriate
  • Partner with site Support Services Manager to assist in workers’ compensation cost containment
  • Review facility procedures and amend as required to keep company compliant with changing regulations on an annual basis
  • Collaborate with engineering, maintenance and operations functions on proper machine guarding implementation and usage
  • Provide technical guidance for H&S for Subsite, OK
  • Have relevant environmental engineering experience in water, wastewater, waste disposal, hazardous storage, and overall environmental best practices
  • Perform other duties as assigned

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Office environment with frequent work taking place on the factory floor, warehouse, and outside facility
  • Rapidly changing workloads and priorities with frequent deadlines
  • Work with confidential information
  • Regular use of personal protective equipment

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree (prefer EHS sciences, Engineering, or Engineering Technology)
  • 7+ years leading and building comprehensive safety programs with evidence of continuous improvement in a similar sized campus
  • Strong manufacturing business acumen with familiarity in manufacturing and material handling preferred
  • Excellent communication skills, both formal and informal, at all levels of the organization
  • Strong analytical, negotiating, presentation and facilitation skills
  • Ability to lead and direct teams and/or committees
  • Ability to conceive, develop, and execute EHS related projects within a manufacturing environment
  • Demonstrated knowledge of delivering direct health and safety training
  • Ability to develop, implement, and coordinate comprehensive health and safety incident prevention programs
  • Skilled in the standards, concepts, practices, and procedures within the health, safety and environmental fields
  • Experience with IS 45001 and ISO 14001 is preferred
  • Experience in Security is preferred
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

JOB DIMENSIONS:

• Position located in Perry, OK
  • Position reports to the Ditch Witch Health and Safety Director, also located in Perry, Oklahoma
  • In conjunction with the Director of Health and Safety and the Health and Safety Representative, responsible for the health and safety of approximately 1,600 employees
  • The position manages two direct reports
  • Travel requirements approximated at < 5%
  • Position is on first shift but will occasionally be required to work alternate shifts as needed for training, investigation, and culture development

If interested, contact:

Jane Sullenger
Email: jane.sullenger@ditchwitch.com