$110,000–$120,000 Per Year
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Senior Safety Manager (Ecommerce Environment)
Employment Type: Direct Hire
Location: Santa Fe Springs, CA (Onsite)
Compensation: $115,000-$120,000 DOE
Overview
We are partnering with a growing, high-volume eCommerce and distribution organization to identify a Senior Safety Manager for their Santa Fe Springs operation.
This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for driving safety strategy, compliance, and culture across a large-scale warehouse and fulfillment environment supporting more than 2,000 employees. The Senior Safety Manager will lead a team of safety professionals while partnering closely with operational leadership to strengthen existing programs, improve processes, reduce risk, and elevate overall safety performance.
This opportunity is ideal for a hands-on safety leader who enjoys being on the floor, influencing change, and building best-in-class safety programs within a fast-paced distribution, logistics, fulfillment, manufacturing, or industrial environment.
Why This Opportunity?
- Lead safety initiatives for a large-scale, high-volume operation
- Support a workforce of more than 2,000 employees at a single location
- Drive meaningful safety transformation and process improvement initiatives
- Partner directly with senior operational leadership
- Manage and mentor an established safety team
- Make a measurable impact on employee safety, compliance, and operational excellence
- Join a growing organization committed to continuous improvement
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all safety programs and initiatives across a large warehouse and distribution operation
- Develop, implement, and continuously improve safety policies, procedures, and training programs
- Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations, Cal/OSHA requirements, Lockout/Tagout programs, machine guarding standards, electrical safety requirements, and powered industrial truck safety programs
- Conduct audits, inspections, risk assessments, and incident investigations
- Analyze safety metrics and trends to identify opportunities for process improvements and risk reduction
- Develop and promote a strong culture of safety throughout the organization
- Evaluate existing programs and recommend enhancements to improve compliance and operational effectiveness
- Partner closely with operations, HR, and leadership teams to achieve business objectives while maintaining a safe work environment
- Lead, coach, and develop safety personnel
- Manage corrective action programs and ensure timely resolution of safety concerns
- Maintain safety documentation, compliance records, and regulatory reporting
- Support operational needs across multiple shifts as required
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of progressive safety leadership experience within warehouse, distribution, fulfillment, logistics, manufacturing, eCommerce, or industrial environments
- Bilingual English/Spanish required
- Experience supporting large employee populations within complex operational environments
- Strong knowledge of OSHA and Cal/OSHA regulations
- Extensive experience with:
- Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)
- Machine Guarding
- Electrical Safety
- Forklift and Powered Industrial Truck Programs
- Hazard Identification and Risk Mitigation
- Proven success improving and transforming safety programs, procedures, and policies
- Experience leading audits, inspections, incident investigations, and root cause analysis
- Strong leadership, communication, and employee engagement skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization
Preferred Qualifications
- CSP (Certified Safety Professional)
- CHST (Construction Health and Safety Technician)
- ASP (Associate Safety Professional)
- Experience leading large-scale safety transformation initiatives
- Experience managing direct reports and developing safety teams
- Previous experience supporting high-volume distribution, fulfillment, manufacturing, or logistics operations
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Vaco provides expert consulting, permanent placement, executive search and strategic staffing for companies around the world, in the areas of accounting, finance, technology, healthcare, operations, administration and more. As a premier talent solutions firm, Vaco connects people to their dream jobs and helps leading companies find talent to grow their business. Since its founding in 2002, Vaco has grown to more than 35 offices across the globe, 700+ employees, more than 3,000 consultants and $450M in revenue. Vaco has been named to Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies for past 11 years and is dedicated to developing long-term relationships, life-long careers and creative client solutions.