Environmental Health & Safety Manager

Reporting to the Plant Manager, you will lead environmental, health, and safety programs at our Quincy manufacturing facility. You will ensure regulatory and company compliance, strengthen employee engagement, identify and reduce workplace risks, and promote incident prevention and environmental stewardship. You will partner with plant teams to integrate environmental, health, and safety practices into daily operations.

A Taste of Your Responsibilities

• Lead site environmental, health, and safety programs, management systems, and continuous improvement plans.
• Translate company policies and regulatory requirements into effective site procedures and operating practices.
• Advise plant leadership on environmental, health, and safety risks, compliance requirements, resources, and priorities.
• Partner with employees and leaders to identify hazards, assess risks, eliminate exposures, and prevent incidents.
• Develop and deliver required safety and health training and facilitate employee safety committees.
• Manage applicable programs including industrial hygiene, ergonomics, machine safety, contractor safety, and emergency response.
• Manage environmental permits, compliance requirements, records, control systems, and regulatory reporting.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and risk assessments and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Lead investigations of injuries, near misses, environmental events, and significant exposures using root cause analysis.
• Analyze environmental, health, and safety performance to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Partner with plant teams on capital projects, equipment changes, new processes, sustainability initiatives, and emergency preparedness.
• Support workers compensation and return-to-work processes in partnership with human resources.

Ingredients Required for Your Success

• Bachelor's degree in environmental health and safety, safety management, industrial hygiene, environmental science, or engineering preferred
• Four or more years of environmental, health, and safety experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Working knowledge of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, and applicable state and local requirements.
• Experience with incident investigations, audits, risk assessments, regulatory compliance, and corrective action processes.
• Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, data analysis, and employee engagement skills.
• Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, or another relevant certification preferred.
• Food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, environmental, health, and safety management systems, or continuous improvement experience preferred.

Physical Requirements

More information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply:

• You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination.
• You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size.
• This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.

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Compensation 

Pay Range:$82,000-$120,000

The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.

Our Benefits

We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:

• Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement

• Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan

• Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement

• Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities

Our Company

At Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions – within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.

Our focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.

Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. Reasonable accommodation may be made upon request.