Your Opportunity as the HS&E Coordinator
The Emporia facility is committed to fostering a culture where safety, health, and environmental stewardship are at the forefront of everything we do. The HSE Coordinator plays a vital role in supporting these efforts by partnering with employees and leadership to promote safe work practices, ensure regulatory compliance, deliver training, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and help create an environment where every employee returns home safely each day.
This position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our people, processes, and overall safety culture. If you are passionate about safety, enjoy working collaboratively across departments, and are committed to driving positive change, we encourage you to apply and become a key contributor to the continued success of the Emporia facility. This position will report to the HS&E Manager.
Location: 1525 Industrial Rd, Emporia, KS 66801 (Hostess Manufacturing Plant)
Work Arrangements: 100% on-site. Scheduled start time: 10am (12-hour shifts; rotating 4-on/3-off schedule) Flexibility is required, including a willingness to work off-shift hours, nights, weekends and/or holidays and to flow to the work as needed.
In this role you will:
Lead Safety Culture and Site Engagement
Serves as a visible HS&E leader on the floor by engaging team members, reinforcing safe behaviors, and promoting safety ownership at every level.
Coaches team members and Safety Functional Leaders (SFLs) to recognize hazards, assess risks, and follow safe work practices.
Provides coaching on behavioral observation safety (BOS) to strengthen safe behaviors, improve hazard recognition, and support meaningful safety conversations.
Promotes a positive safety culture through employee engagement activities, recognition programs, and daily safety discussions.
Supports leaders and teams in translating site HS&E goals into clear expectations and sustainable daily practices.
Spends approximately 70% of their time on the production floor conducting observations, coaching employees, supporting investigations, and following up on corrective actions.
Build Capability and Strengthen HS&E Ownership
Develops, delivers, and improves HS&E training, including new-hire orientation, qualification support, and floor-based coaching.
Builds site capability by serving as a subject matter expert for assigned HS&E key elements and mentoring sub-key element owners.
Manages assigned HS&E sub-key element systems and helps team members understand the related standards, expectations, and required behaviors.
Participates in development opportunities to strengthen HS&E expertise and apply new learning at the site.
Drive Hazard Identification, Risk Reduction, and Problem Solving
Facilitates routine hazard assessments, risk predictions, near-miss reviews, safety observations, and risk assessments to identify and eliminate workplace hazards.
Partners with team members to evaluate risks, define preventive and corrective actions, and implement sustainable solutions.
Leads or supports incident investigations and root cause analyses using continuous improvement tools to prevent recurrence.
Analyzes incident, near-miss, audit, and injury data to identify trends, prioritize risks, and recommend practical improvements.
Owns HS&E action plans and tracks actions to ensure timely completions and sustainable closure of identified gaps.
Support Operational Safety and Change Management
Provides HS&E leadership and floor support during outages, startups, commissioning, high-risk work, process changes, capital projects, and new product introductions.
Participate in risk assessments, safety reviews for equipment changes, process modifications, capital projects, and new product introductions to ensure risks are identified and controlled.
Monitors safety performance on the floor by conducting routine floor observations to verify compliance with PPE use, safe work practices, permit processes, machine…