Safety Coordinator (La Barca)

About Us

Diageo is the world's leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Don Julio, Casamigos, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness.

Our Purpose

Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Function

Promote safety culture in place, implementing and overseeing company's employee safety at work.

About the Role

This position is responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining health and safety programs to ensure all employees' highest level of compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitors health and safety regulations and provides technical support and leadership to Area Managers to ensure compliance with internal standards and Federal, State, and Local laws.
• Provides direction and makes decisions regarding all site safety activities.
• Serves as a liaison for regulatory agencies.
• Tracks and reports Governance critical metrics (Risk and Health).
• Conducts plant safety and health inspections and mentors with operations team members on-the-job.
• Ensures full compliance and adherence to site work permits.
• Delivers and implements training programs, including new hire safety training and annual refresher training for all employees on various safety topics.
• Maintains contractor safety program, including the qualification process, orientation, and safety compliance.
• Provides mentorship and leadership to improve employee safety engagement.
• Supports and drives the Behavior Based Safety Program for the site.
• Conducts risk assessments and recommends risk reduction and control strategies to site leadership.
• Conducts root cause analysis for incidents, accidents, and near misses.
• Provides corrective actions and lessons learned at the site and corporate level.
• Leads and ensures adherence to the internal audit program schedule.
• Rolls out/embed critical safety and environmental programs throughout site processes and infrastructure, including Zero Harm, SFIP, STPS, NFPA, etc.
• Implements continuous improvement programs related to health, safety, and the environment.

Experience and Skills

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience in Chemical, Environmental, Industrial Engineering or similar.
• 5+ years broad and deep technical experience in HS or equivalent experience in industrial operations.
• Excellent knowledge of local regulations and Safety Management System.
• Ability to lead all aspects of EHS management systems in production environments, including identification, assessment, control, crisis management, and business recovery plan.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction.
• Vital planning, interpersonal, and follow-up skills.
• Critical thinker and problem solving skills.
• Leadership strength in capability development, partner management and union worker relationships.
• Excellent communication skills to get along with general management and union worker.
• English and Spanish proficiency required.

Benefits

We offer stellar benefits!

Diversity Statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity. For our business to thrive and Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the outstanding contribution each person brings.

Location and Type

Worker Type: Regular

Primary Location: La Barca