Job Description

Christensen Farms is one of the largest, family-owned pork producers in the United States, marketing approximately 3 million hogs per year. Headquartered in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota,

our 50 year old company operates throughout the Midwest with facilities in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, and South Dakota. Christensen Farms owns three feed mills, manages

140,000 sows on 44 farms, and oversees more than 350 nurseries and grow-finish sites. Our organization employs nearly 1,000 people and maintains 1,500 contract partnerships. We

are an industry leader with a proven commitment to ethical practices, food safety, and nutrition. Join our team!

Position Overview:

The Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring the safety, health, and well-being of CF employees. Ability to design, implement, and monitor effective programs and initiatives to

reduce safety-related incidents is critical for success in the role. The Safety Manager will be expected to provide long and short-term strategies to ensure that each department is

responsible for maintaining programs that continuously improve the approach to promote and protect the health and safety of CF employees. It will be essential to build strong

relationships and be able to collaborate effectively with managers, supervisors and other partners both within and outside the organization to achieve the desired results. It is

expected that the individual in this role will be highly motivated to provide solutions and execute efficiently with a high degree of detail for follow through.

What You Will Do:

• Provide leadership to the safety committee through relevant expertise, guidance, and decision-making as required.
• Assemble and analyze safety incident data and routinely provide statistical information to executives, department leaders, safety committee members, and management.
• Advise CF's leadership team on strategic safety issues and develop associated risk management solutions.
• Ensure compliance with corporate safety programs, OSHA, Worker's Compensation, and DOT laws and regulations via reporting and site visits. Assist management with development of corrective action.
• Provide procedures for proper investigation and reporting of safety incidents. Ensures that all incidents are fully investigated.
• Provides programs to train managers, supervisors, and employees to implement safety programs, including safety orientation for new employees and current staff, injury prevention, operational controls development, and job hazard analysis.
• New supervisor training required such as monthly inspection, near miss reporting, etc.
• Recommend, implement, deliver, and maintain corporate safety training programs related to the departments they support.
• Respond to requests to participate in site inspections and audits with/by insurance company representatives, government agencies, and CF auditors.

What You Offer Us:

• Bachelor's degree or related experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of safety and health leadership experience in a production environment.
• Pluses: OSHA certification
• Experience in Human and Organizational Performance safety concepts
• Experience with serious injury and fatality prevention initiatives
• Demonstrated root cause analysis and problem-solving skills
• Direct and indirect people leadership

What We Offer You:

• A strong leadership career track with opportunities to grow.
• We offer a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, a flexible spending account (FSA), life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid time off bank, an employee assistance program (EAP), and more.
• Be an active part of an organization that gives back to the community in many ways – including feed programs that support local farms, food shelf programs, food support for veterans, agriculture education and promotion, FFA/4H support, charitable contributions, etc.
• A company that has a passionate purpose for food safety, animal welfare, and for living its core values every day – respect, integrity, excellence, adaptability, and innovation.
• A culture that fosters employee growth, hybrid work options, promotion from within, and a highly team-oriented workplace environment.
• The targeted base pay range for this role is $85,000 to $115,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills, and experience.

Reports To:

Director of Safety

Christensen Farms promotes a culture of inclusion and strives to attract a diverse set of candidates for each of our open positions. We are an equal employment opportunity employer and proud to offer employment and growth opportunities to all candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status.

Learn more about how you can put your passion and talent to work with us at:

https://www.christensenfarms.com/careers/positions-available/