Location: Sandy Run, South Carolina
Package: Competitive with benefits
Position Type: Permanent / full time

About us:

We are one of the world’s leading manufacturers of collagen products for the food industry. We supply high quality edible films and coatings to over 1,000 customers in more than 100 countries, delivering our purpose of ‘Creating the Added Layer of Value’.

Primarily used by customers in the production of a wide variety of sausage and meat products, our aspirations reach way beyond our current products and services, and appeal to our natural curiosity to improve what we do.

As a global organisation, we currently employ around 2,000 people spanning the Americas, UK/EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. We offer careers in research and development, science and food technology, manufacturing and supply chain operations, engineering, sales, and a range of other business support functions. We are always seeking talented people to join the amazing colleagues we have, to keep growing our business.

Our mission is to sustainably utilise technology and biomaterial science-based solutions, to delight our customers. We are a business committed to the pursuit of better. The constant pursuit of what’s next, what’s needed, what’s possible now, and in the future. Do you want to be part of our journey?

About the role

As the Health and Safety Coordinator, you will be responsible for the site safety culture and performance. You will review, develop, and conduct all Devro activities relating to Occupational Health and Safety. You will also create a visible profile for safety by working with management and employees to ensure the delivery of safety-related outcomes.

In addition to having the knowledge and experience in occupational health and safety, you will need to have a creative mindset and enjoy collaborating to produce an effective internal training and development system to achieve OSHA compliance.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate improvement on all leading and lagging indicators on Safety
• Adherence to the Health & Safety, PSM, and training plans
• Demonstrate improvement on injury rates on site year on year to create a zero-accident culture in Devro
• Maintenance of existing H&S Management System, with a focus on continuous improvement and legislative compliance
• Safety systems, document control, and record keeping ensuring legislative requirements are met, and internal controls are maintained
• Manage incident reporting system to ensure incidents/accidents are investigated, root causes identified, corrective actions taken, and feedback is given to relevant parties
• Managing workers compensation claims and liaise with the Insurer, Employee doctor, Rehabilitation, and other Medical Personnel, as necessary
• Initiate safety awareness programmes and always promote health and safety
• Active involvement in Risk Assessment processes to ensure actions/controls are realistic and planned for action
• Provide advice, guidance, and assistance to assist in the provision of a safe workplace.
• Enable departments to undertake risk assessment processes to identify hazards and ensure that appropriate control measures are in place
• Liaise with Department on matters of Safety, Health, and rehabilitation and reporting on safety statistics. In addition, ensuring Life Saving Rules compliance.
• Provide administrative support to the Health & Safety Manager as required and perform ah-hoc duties in line with training and qualifications that may be delegated

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in health & safety or other related field is desirable but not essential
• 5-10 years of safety-related experience is essential
• Previous experience with Workers Compensation and PSM would be highly desirable
• Safety-related certifications are desirable (e.g., ASP, OHST, SMS, etc.) or driven to train and obtain further safety qualifications whilst in the role is essential
• Effective communication with excellent influencing skills with all levels of the organisation is essential
• Computer literate with experience using Microsoft office
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills is essential
• Creative mindset and a compassionate approach are highly desirable
• Working knowledge of OSHA and life safety regulations
• Ability to interpret and apply national health and safety legislation and policy

What next?

If this sounds like a role that you would be interested in, then we would love to hear from you. To apply, please email a copy of your CV, along with a cover letter explaining the key attributes that you could bring to the role.

Email address for applications: recruitment@Saria-foodpharma.com

Closing Date: 13/5/2025

*Please note, closing dates are subject to change and, at time of high volume of applications, this may be brought forward.

Other important information:

We believe it takes diversity of thought, culture, background, and perspective to create a truly innovative company. So if you share our values, purpose and drive for growth and sustainability, then we want to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to be able to pursue an application with us, please let our Recruitment team know.

Information Security is paramount at Devro, so your application and any personal data you share with us will be processed and stored in line with our Candidate Privacy Notice which you can view here https://www.devro.com/careers.