Zachary O. Ritchie has over 5 years of experience in environmental health and safety roles at Cargill Turkey & Cooked Meats in Dayton, VA. He is currently the Environmental Health & Safety Supervisor, where he leads compliance programs and works to eliminate occupational injuries. Previously he was an Operations Supervisor responsible for multiple departments with 40 employees. He has a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Bridgewater College and completed Dale Carnegie training in 2015.

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Zachary O. Ritchie 2428 Millwood Loop, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
zoritchie001@gmail.com
(540)810-2778
EDUCATION Bachelor of Science in Biology/ Pre-Med
Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia
Dale Carnegie 2015
EXPERIENCE CARGILL TURKEY & COOKED MEATS
DAYTON,VA ( NOVEMBER 2013 -PRESENT )
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY SUPERVISOR
 Responsible for compliance and management of government and company programs in relation to OSHA,
ANSI, NFPA and Cargill guidelines.
 Lead team towards ergonomics and occupational illness/injury elimination.
 Responsible for 5.0 FTEin ergonomic coordinators who were responsiblefor timely reporting of occupational
injuries/illnesses, investigating every occupational illness/injury, onboard process of all new employees to the
company as well as maintain all safety programs. Some of these programs include; LOTO (lock out tag out),
PIT (powered industrial trucks), BBS (behavior based safety), near-miss tracking, 30 day new hire reviews, a
intricate Ramp-In process and communication of EHS Campaigns.
 Leader of a SIF/LIFE management call for all CTCM EHS Managers; concentrated towards comparing
incidents, sharing best practices and overall SIF Task reduction throughout the BU.
 Lead the development for a uniformed CTCM BU policy for JTA/CTA and Fixed Ladders.
 5 Why Champion, leading theefforts to develop and implement the 5WHY program in Dayton.
CARGILL TURKEY & COOKED MEATS
DAYTON,VA ( SEPTEMBER 2012 – NOVEMBER 2013 )
OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR
 Responsible for Shipping, Wing line, DAPEC, MST and Rendering departments with 40 FTE.
 Job requirements included: employee safety, quality assurance, product yields, labor efficiency, employee
turnover, engagement, scheduling customer orders and onboarding of new employees.
 Team member of theVA reliability excellence process improvement (REPI) initiative.
 Kaizen project lead, where improved yields for Whole Birds department generated a savings of $60,000
annually.
 Initiated a Wing Line cost savings project which resulted in $600,000 of realized savings.
 Implemented the addition of 5 robotic palletizers which generated $190,000 of realized savings annually.
 Learned the flow of product through the Dayton complex, a vertically-integrated turkey production business
that produces about 8 million pounds of turkey product each week.
 Gained both a broad perspectiveand in-depth knowledge of all phases of turkey production.
 Committees: United Way of Rockingham County, Ambassador Committee
SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
Experienced in Microsoft and MacOS; Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint;
Experienced with Maximo, Kronos, InfoView, YaleVision, InfoLink, Atlas Ergonomic Software and
Alchemy. Knowledge of Continuous Improvement, Kaizen, 5WHY, 5S, HACCP, CCP, GMPS.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational and analytical skills, data
management skills; Demonstrated leader and trainer.
 The United Way of Rockingham County
 Boy Scouts of America SJAC Chairman/Eagle Scout 2006
 Venturing Chairman/Quest Award 2008