Health and Safety Manager

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Position Title: Health and Safety Manager

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Grade: Grade 06

Requisition : 40085

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

The Manager of Health and Safety is part of the Leadership Team at the Site providing guidance and strategic direction to leaders and implementing the management system (including, but not limited to work processes, standards, and procedures) as well as driving a Safety Mindset and Culture for all employees – For Us For Family. Leads with a proactive approach of continuous improvement in health, safety, and security and ensures emergency preparedness, crisis management, audit readiness, and compliance with compliance obligations.

• The position interacts with employees to ensure a culture of caring where each employee is accountable and responsible for Health & Safety conditions and behaviors. As a member of the leadership team, fosters and develops a culture where health & safety are ingrained as a core value with all employees.
• Ensure compliance with local, state/provincial, and federal health & safety compliance obligations. Acts as the primary plant representative in the event of regulatory site visits/inspections and engages with stakeholders in and outside the plant, including, but not limited to functional Corporate Team(s), Legal, and community resources.
• Develops and implements processes and procedures to ensure Site, employee, and contractor compliance with company and regulatory agencies.
• Strategic Leadership/Partnership, Change Leader, Performance Driver/Coach, functional expert/subject matter expert and change enabler to drive behavior-based safety programs, injury‑free culture, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborates with other facility functions, engineering, maintenance, food safety, quality assurance, etc.) to ensure new products, capital projects, and functional activities are aligned with facility health & safety objectives and injury prevention.
• Implements McCain’s "Key Elements of Safety (KES)" of the health & safety management process and Cultural Assessment process. Facilitates employee safety committees and acts as a resource for department health & safety meetings held by Line Supervisors and/or the Health and Safety department.
• Utilizes internal and external resources in the development of building a sustainable, comprehensive health and safety & security program. Stay abreast of pending developments in the health and safety & security areas that could impact the Site via professional associations, workshops, etc.
• Learn and develop the key skills required to implement continuous improvement disciplines into the safety improvement process (MDI). Participates and coordinates activities such as Kaizen events, and training/education in various continuous improvement processes.
• Develops and utilizes tools that will maximize the effectiveness and measurement of progress with leading and lagging indicators.
• Manages Worker’s Compensation in partnership with Human Resources.
• Plans, budgets, and executes specific programs and activities to prevent employee injury and illness and increase employee well‑being. Programs should target employee responsibility for individual health & safety and focus on both on‑the‑job and off‑the‑job activities that influence employee health.
• Ensures compliance with governmental and McCain security requirements. Manages in‑plant security systems and the security team. Conducts regular security audits and ensures proper corrective actions are taken. Assist in the area of Food Safety & Security as needed or requested.
• Ensures plant emergency action and crisis management plan is up to date and that the management team is prepared to respond to emergencies. Annually develops and conducts periodic crisis drill simulations.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health & safety, or Certified Safety Professional (CSP).
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