At Russell Stover, not only do we love chocolate, but we love our jobs! Every day we go to work exhibiting our values of excellence, innovation, entrepreneurship, responsibility, and collaboration. Working at Russell Stover you’ll be part of the leading manufacturer of boxed, seasonal, and sugar-free chocolates. For over 100 years, Russell Stover Chocolates, Whitman’s, and Pangburn’s have been crafted with the finest ingredients to bring happiness to generations. Today, we produce over 55 million pounds of chocolate annually, and our legacy brands can be found in 13 company-owned stores and over 9,000 wholesale accounts. Join our team and let’s continue making chocolate lovers happy! 
 

A day in the life…

As the Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) Manager, you will play a key role in continuous efforts to reduce employee injuries and improve facility operations. You will ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations through effective EHS program development and implementation. You will ensure EHS programs are updated, implemented, maintained, integrated into daily operations, and effective. You will also look over necessary records and make sure they are maintained in accordance with established guidelines.

In this role, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our Safety Culture, be an active leader and resource to the operating departments, Safety Pillar, Safety Committee, and relevant teams. You will also educate employees on safety principles and research, communicate, and partner with operations for the resolution of safety inquiries and help identify and correct hazardous workplace conditions. You will provide safety accounting and loss intelligence to the facility not limited to compliance, risk, and accidents. As the EHS Manager, you will ensure employees receive medical treatment as appropriate and manage Workers’ Compensation Claims. You will be directly reporting to the Plant Manager with a dotted line to the Senior Manager of Environment, Health, & Safety.

Relocation package available if qualified. 

• Develop and provide technical and administrative direction on all environment, health and safety policies and programs applicable to manufacturing. Lead local safety pillar team implementing and driving continuous improvement initiative.
• Oversee and ensure compliance with all OSHA and EPA regulations including, but not limited to, Hearing Conservation, Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication and CPR, First Aid and AED requirements.
• Review internal policies and practices to ensure they are current and appropriate.
• Conduct hazard, risk and ergonomic assessments and develop new or, where necessary, amend policies and procedures.
• Analyze incident reports and evaluate injury case studies based on available facts. Track incident metrics and apply findings. Lead injury and incident inquiries and evaluations.
• Prepare training materials and programs in support of required regulatory programs.
• Work jointly with operations and engineering to improve operational efficiencies and reduce regulatory compliance expense.
• Provides support and assistance to plant management.
• Workers compensation claims management, reporting and transitional duty assignments.
• Communicating areas of concern to site personnel to improve overall performance.
• Responsible for supervising the 2nd shift Health & Safety Supervisor
• Responsible for direction, coordination and assigning Transitional Duty assignments to employees in accordance with work restrictions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an EHS related program or 4 years of experience in an EHS role
• Knowledge of EPA and OSHA regulations and compliance program management
• Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Must be able to bend, stoop, climb, reach and lift.
• Must be able to stand on hard, wet, slippery surfaces for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• 5 years’ experience implementing regulatory compliance in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with OSHA and EPA regulations and compliance program management
• Experience conducting EHS training
• PSM/RMP experience with anhydrous ammonia
• RCRA hazardous waste compliance and hazardous materials handling experience
• Experience in food manufacturing environment
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal communication, organizational and time management skills
• Bilingual in Spanish

What it’s like at the Russell Stover Plants

• Safety. Your safety is important to us, so we provide protective gear. We also go through an in-depth Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) training on your first day and continue to share safety tips daily
• Surroundings. You’ll be working around different machines – Schubert’s, forklifts, electric pallet jacks, and chocolate candy banks/steels.
• Activity. Some activities may require standing in one place for long periods, walking around, or climbing stairs/ladders, and routinely lift 50 lbs.
• Temperature. You will be comfortable year-round with our climate-controlled environment. Our temperatures are consistently around 63°F but could fluctuate depending on your specific role.
• Smell. You will enjoy a variety of deliciously sweet aromas and you may end your day smelling like chocolate!
• Dress code. Relaxed, with a few rules to follow for food safety, personal safety and in guidance with our good manufacturing practices (GMP). Comfortable, closed-toe shoes are required. Leather, imitation leather, or rubber boots or shoes must be worn in the kitchen and other areas when working around hot liquid/product or hot water.

At Russell Stover Chocolates, we don’t just accept difference — we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Russell Stover Chocolates is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.
 

We provide equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
 

Employment by Russell Stover Chocolates is contingent upon I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification, passing the urinalysis drug screen, education verification, and satisfactory reference and background checks.