Health & Safety Manager

Who we are:

At Sierra Forest Products, we’re more than a leading North American distributor of specialty wood products—we’re a team committed to professionalism, care, and creating spaces that enhance lives and the health of the planet. Founded on the principles of integrity and belonging, we’ve built an organization where your contributions truly matter.

The Health and Safety Manager provides leadership, guidance, andexpertistothe business units in the development and implementation of health and safety strategies, standards, policies, and processes.

You will ensure compliance with legislative requirements andfacilitatethe effective use of the Health & Safety Management System (HSMS).

In this role,you willequip line management and field personnel with the necessary tools, information, and awareness to address health and safety concerns proactively. Through expert guidance and support,you willwork to mitigate risks, prevent occupational injuries and illnesses, and foster a strong culture of workplace safety.

• Ensure implementation and continuous improvement of safety, health andlosscontrol processes and systems within the assigned regional areas.

• Participate in the effective development, delivery and implementation of health & safety policies, programs and communications that support the implementation of the Health, Safety and Environment Improvement Plan (HSE-IP) across the business units within scope.

• The development, implementation and direction of the facility’s Occupational Health and Safety Program and will continually strive to support the company’s goals to provide a safe and healthy workplacetoallemployees.

• Assist unit management in the development and implementation of the H&S Improvement Plan objectives, identifying improvement areas and developing associated action plans.

• Determine through needs-analysis the requirements and priorities for safe work processes in maintenance and operational functions with a focus on high-risk tasks.

• Support site management to facilitate the early and safe return to work for employees who are injured or become ill at work.

• Provide analysis and interpretation of health and safety metrics and key performance indicators.
• Provide H&S statistical information and key indicators in a meaningful format for business units and management teams to support effective decision-making.
• Works to ensure compliance with all applicable legislation and fulfillment of contractual environmental, health and safety requirements.

• Provide on-going coaching to management teams on their responsibilities with respect to applicable legislative and corporate health & safety requirements and provide assistance to develop solutions to achieve compliance to those requirements.
• Develop and deliver health & safety training modules and programs reflective of applicable legislative requirements and corporate health & safety policies, procedures, and practices.
• Facilitate various training programs including, but not limited to, orientation, mobile equipment, crane, material handling, workplace specific hazardous material information systems, as well as several others as required.

• Facilitate and participate in incident/accident investigations and risk assessments.
• Develop corrective actions and follow up on actions to ensure compliance and root-cause analyses are completed according to incident type and risk.
• Assertively manage post-incident matters including incident reporting,…