Universal Forest Products Work Values

Daily Duties at Universal Forest Products:

* Provide accurate and timely feedback to the Division President on safety related challenges with-in the division. * Communicate with all Regional Vice Presidents to ensure they are notified on their respective plants improvements and challenges. * Accountable for 21 wood manufacturing facilities located in 10 different states and Canada across the Northeast and Great Lakes region. * Visit each location on regular basis inspecting facility operations to ensure that safe job practices are followed, programs are administered to standard of all relevant safety policies. * Ensure that all plant safety personnel are fulfilling their responsibilities to provide a safe productive workplace for each employee. * Verify that all required machine/process guards are in place and operational and that all documentation of training and investigation reports are completed and accurate. * When/if injuries occur investigate and facilitate the investigation of all accidents to determine root cause and ensures that corrective measures are implemented. * Monitor workers compensation reports for each facility, analyzing the data to determine where cost reduction can be applied to lower the overall workers compensation cost. * Ensure that all workers compensation claims are reported accurately and in a timely manner to take care of each individual employee and identify claims that may or may not be non-work related to third party workers compensation provider. * Each month monitor each facility’s OSHA 300 log to ensure they are accurate. * Oversee all division safety budgets for each facility and ensure that each facility that has money allocated to their safety accounts is spent on appropriate tools dictated by the corporate safety committee. * Train all new plant managers on job appropriate corporate and division safety policies and procedures. * On an annual basis direct key training requirements including forklift training, Lockout/ Tag out, First Aid/ CPR, supervisor safety training, 45 day training, annual retraining requirements and effective management techniques. * Provide annual training on various safety related topics to all 21 locations focusing on training employees on how to train others, developing a strong culture and how to encourage a safe atmosphere. * One of seven corporate safety committee members that focused on corporate directives and policies, identifying areas of improvement for each of 86 facilities.

What they like about Universal Forest Products:

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Tags

Safety, Environmental, Health, OSHA, DOT, Compliance

Skills

Sales Support, Software Implementation, Requirements Analysis & Specification, Leadership , Risk Management, Risk Reduction Techniques, Ergonomics techniques and training, Continuous Improvements/ Lean Manufucturing, Train the Trainer, DOT Compliance, Advanced First Aid, Lockout/ Tag out trained, Hazardous Communications Trained, Microsoft Office Suite, Hazardous waste management and transportation

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