at Gate Gourmet, Inc. in Schiller Park, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Gate Gourmet, Inc., Schiller Park, IL seeks
Senior Manager, Business Unit Ops, Compliance & Transportation – Working in the Airline business services and catering industry specifically, provide operational leadership and development for unit operations and QEH&S team members through teaching and coaching. Develop, implement and support transportation safety process improvements in conjunction with unit management and QEH&S regional teams including field implementation of training, quality, environmental, health and safety processes. Review, research and recommend new safety developments including new technology that will improve fleet operations, catering safety and reduce losses. Drive successful attainment of regional QEH&S goals, objectives and targets at the unit level. Liaise with support functions such as HR and Customer Service, etc. to evaluate and reduce potential risks by evaluating and continuously improving risk prevention process effectiveness within airline catering operation. Development of technical airline catering training material and processes and provide operating unit technical support in the areas of quality, food safety, occupational safety and health, chemical safety, waste management, waste water and storm water pollution prevention, air quality and environmental annual reporting. Lead and support cross-functional improvement teams in developing new QEH&S standards and best practices. Prepare proposals and reports for unit and regional leadership. Ensure adherence to departmental budgets. Liaise with unit customers, union representatives, airport and regulatory agencies to identify emerging trends and issues to include monitoring, measuring and communicating safety trends, targets and impacts. Working with food safety hazard analysis and critical control points within the airline catering industry to assess and ensure compliance with local, state and federal food safety, environmental, health and safety regulations. Partner with units to integrate sustainable compliance solutions within operations. Support Environmental Compliance Calendars for assigned units. Work with regulatory agencies and environmental consulting firms to achieve goals and ensure permits are in place. Drive waste minimization, reduction and recycling process through the identification of opportunities and targets. Support operating unit program implementation. Support operating units in determination of quality defects, accident and injury root causes, corrective and preventive actions and lead complex safety related incident investigations. Developing and leading innovative safety programs in airline catering industry and monitor, measure and communicate unit safety trends, targets and impacts through the use of QEH&S scorecards and by performing safety and quality auditing. Use of Safety Management Systems within the airline catering industry to include evaluating and continuously improving unit risk prevention process effectiveness (BMS, Critical Control Points, PRIDE and ramp SQUAD). Work with operations leadership to optimize deployment of QEH&S processes. Ensure regulatory reporting responsibilities of units are met. Administer corporate QEH&S policies and procedures within hub units and make improvement recommendations. In conjunction with HR, identify and support implementation of CSR, health and wellness initiatives at the unit level. Development of standard operating procedures in compliance with IATA and ISAGO standards and strong contributor in global compliance councils such as Global Ramp Safety Council. Will travel 10% US to provide specialist support & training to other company facilities.
