Health & Safety Manager

At Rubicon Organics our vision is to be the most trusted house of premium cannabis brands, creating elevated experiences for people everywhere. Our mission is to build brands people believe in by delivering elevated experiences in all we do. Through uncompromising quality, purposeful innovation, and trusted partnerships, we create products and relationships that enrich lives and help shape the future of cannabis.

As a publicly traded Canadian company (TSX-V: ROMJ), we cultivate, produce, and distribute award-winning premium cannabis products under brands including Simply Bare™, 1964 Supply Co.™, Homestead Cannabis Supply™, and Wildflower™. We are passionate about sustainability, innovation, and operational excellence, and we're looking for people who want to make a meaningful impact while helping shape the future of the premium cannabis industry.

Under the direction of the Director of Operations, the Health & Safety Manager is responsible for leading the company’s health and safety function across a growing organization of approximately 300+ employees. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the design, implementation, ownership, and continuous improvement of the company’s Safety Management System (SMS). The Manager will partner with leaders across departments, and ensure health and safety programs are scalable, compliant, effective, and aligned with business growth.

This position is accountable for building a strong safety culture, strengthening due diligence, improving leading and lagging safety performance, and ensuring the organization is audit-ready and positioned for long-term success.

Based out of Delta BC with occasional commute to Hope BC.

The Health & Safety Manager successfully establishes the Safety Management System as a living, company-wide operating framework; strengthens leadership accountability; develops the Safety Advisor and broader organization; improves audit readiness and compliance performance; reduces risk exposure; and helps create a workplace where safe work is fully integrated into how the business operates every day.

• Own the company’s Safety Management System (SMS), including implementation, governance, maintenance, and continuous improvement, ensuring the system remains practical, scalable, and aligned with operational growth.
• Lead the rollout of the SMS across all departments and sites, including standards, procedures, training, accountabilities, documentation, and performance monitoring.
• Develop and execute the company’s annual health and safety strategy, objectives, and roadmap in alignment with operational priorities and risk profile.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to the Safety Advisor, while establishing clear priorities, development plans, and performance expectations for the safety function.
• Serve as the primary internal subject matter expert and strategic advisor to operations leadership on occupational health and safety risk, compliance obligations, and best practices.
• Partner with managers and supervisors to embed safety responsibilities into daily operations, leader standard work, and decision-making processes.
• Build a proactive safety culture by promoting accountability, visible leadership, employee engagement, hazard reporting, and continuous improvement.
• Support the company’s long-term maturity in health and safety management by benchmarking programs, identifying improvement opportunities, and leading strategic initiatives that strengthen overall organizational capability.

• Ensure compliance with applicable occupational health and safety legislation, regulations, standards, and internal requirements, including WorkSafeBC…