Senior Manager, Health and Safety

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization: Workplaces is responsible for the active management of the Global Real Estate Portfolio for all owned and leased properties, including lease and transaction management, all design, construction services, canteen services, and operational maintenance for all offices, showrooms and distributions centers for adidas North America (NAM). Workplaces supports the successful implementation of “Own the Game” by supporting revenue growth, portfolio optimization and creating great workplaces to attract and retain top talent across the globe. To ensure a successful and sustainable Portfolio, Workplaces collaborates within an extensive network of internal / external stakeholders including industry experts to provide value added service.   The Senior Manager Health & Safety will be responsible to manage and enforce company safety policies and ensure compliance with all applicable global, regional and local regulations for Spartanburg DCs Campus. The incumbent will develop and implement health and safety initiatives and protocols in accordance with adidas values, to analyze, evaluate, present and manage safety risk and provide confidence to all interested parties that adidas are responsible and effectively protecting brand value. A successful incumbent demonstrates the ability to build the trust and confidence to inspire change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis.   Key Responsibilities:

Implement written health and safety(H&S) programs, ensuring safe working conditions for all employees and compliance to company policies and all laws and regulations . Ensure site programs fully comply with health and safety regulations, adidas policies and Global H&S standards. Regulatory review and update site H&S programs. Timely evaluation and periodic review of the site operational H&S profile, to ensure application of effective controls. Establish mechanisms to ensure proactive H&S assessment of the impact of change. Ensures mechanisms are established to identify and manage H&S regulatory requirements that apply to site operations including preparation of impact assessments, registrations, and certifications. Implement the health and safety risk reduction strategies incorporating: Safety Standards, Policies, Environmental, Ergonomics, People Risk, Governance, Crisis Management, Event Risk, Incident Investigation & Management, Risk Assessment and Preventive Measures. Conduct risk assessments on the workplace organization, employee behaviours, and standard operating procedures to minimize and mitigate risks. Act as representative for Corporate H&S programs and initiatives as well as federal, state, and local health and safety agencies. Act as site Health and Safety Committee representative. Maintain all records and documentation in compliance with local Health and Safety Management System and ISO-45001 standard. Ensures implementation and maintenance of Health and Safety Management System that meet external and internal H&S standards and enhance and continuously improve the H&S program at the site. Establishes and maintains periodically evaluate the effectiveness of the site H&S management system. Support adidas corporate and third-party audit programs to ensure compliance with the Health and Safety Management System, regulations and other legal requirements. Captures, analyses, and reacts to safety metrics and reviews weekly and monthly incident trends to discover patterns on areas where the safety risk is highest. Support Operations incident investigation/near-miss process with training and root cause analysis and review corrective actions to ensure proper mitigation plans are being implemented. Integrates H&S risk assessment within operations thereby assuring all initiatives at the site are conducted in a safe manner and in full compliance with all applicable regulating bodies. Develop communication plan to