We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.
We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.
We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!
Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.
Job Description Summary
Provides support and oversight of Environment, Health, & Safety (EHS) functions for multiple food manufacturing locations. Leads and/or participates in the execution of Lamb Weston's EHS Management System, EHS Pillar, and corporate initiatives. Builds capabilities of facility resources and mentors EHS staff. Reports to the Director, Environment with a strong focus on environmental compliance and development. Implements key initiatives of the EHS function by working through the various plant managers and their department leadership teams. Provides 1:1 mentorship to site EHS leaders and occupational health nurses to ensure a safe work environment and engaged employees.
Job Description
Act as liaison to the EHS Pillar leaders in the Lamb Weston Operating Culture
Administer the Key Concepts of EHS to build an operating culture that integrates protecting people and the environment with daily operations.
Provide EHS leadership and assistance to facilities to comply with all applicable EHS regulations and established standards. Ensure EHS compliance tasks are managed in a timely manner within our EHS information management system (Enablon). Act as a liaison for the Company to regulatory agencies (e.g., inspections, conference committees, SME, etc.).
Lead in the active engagement of all employees in EHS related activities. Train and coach employees in engagement activities and leadership to foster an interdependent culture at each facility.
Provide leadership toward identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating hazards to reduce risk.
Lead assurance efforts to include support for the internal or external audits and assessments and drive plant self-assessments to ensure monitoring and measuring performance.
Provide EHS guidance in plant early management design and review process.
Ensure management of change processes are robust at each facility to reduce risk as new materials, processes, or procedures are introduced that may represent a new or previously unrecognized hazard.
Provide leadership to ensure plants have adequately identified hazards and subsequent emergency response action and response plans. Support training efforts of responders.
Lead incident management efforts to ensure: Effective root cause analysis training (using TapRooT) of plant EHS and operations leaders; ensure timely reporting and analysis of incidents; ensure corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) are developed, shared, and tracked to completion.
Support mentoring of EHS Team Leaders and interns and participate in recruiting efforts.
Basic & Preferred Qualifications
Position Requirements
MS degree in environmental science or engineering or a closely related field, or Bachelor's degree plus equivalent experience.
EHS certifications preferred: Certified Environmental Manager, Professional Engineer, Certified Safety Professional, or Industrial Hygienist
Minimum of 10+ years of experience in environment leadership roles, preferably over multiple locations, in manufacturing (required).
Technical expertise and experience: EHS leadership training, root cause investigation, EHS regulatory compliance and inspections, environmental permitting (air and wastewater).
Experience with ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 or ISO risk-based management systems preferred.
Extensive knowledge of EPA, OSHA, DOT and worker's compensation laws.
Strong communication/presentation skills and the proven ability to motivate leaders.
Frequent travel 50%, with infrequent support trips within the U.S. as required.
Physical Requirements:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste and smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. The employee will be exposed to a noisy environment that varies from hot to cold in temperature. 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Industry-Competitive Benefits
Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:
Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
Paid Time Off
Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
Family-Friendly Employee events
Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Job Requisition ID: Req-234851
Time Type: Full time
Anticipated Close Date: 07/16/2024
In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $110,610.00 - $165,920.00
Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law
