Regional Health and Safety Advisor (manufacturing)

Stella-Jones is a leading manufacturer of essential infrastructure products focused on serving utilities and railroads, as well as supplying big box home improvement stores across North America. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Stella-Jones operates a vast network of facilities that employs more than 3,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Built on strong foundations with a coast-to-coast reach, we offer real opportunities for career success and community impact.

Position Summary

This position is responsible for developing, reviewing and overseeing the implementation and overall compliance to health and safety policies, programs and procedures constituting our environment, health and safety management system. Duties include performing health and safety audits, creating initiatives to reduce and prevent incidents, developing and conducting training sessions, providing leadership to health and safety advisors and operations’ leaders on health and safety standards and strategies, conducting regular site visits and reporting health and safety KPIs and projects updates to Executive Management.

Responsibilities

• In collaboration with the Senior Manager, Health and Safety, developing, maintaining and overseeing the implementation of health and safety programs and procedures in accordance with company policy and regulatory standards.
• Performing compliance, and system-based audits at SJI facilities.
• Participating in the SJI Management of Change (MOC) process to verify compliance with established standards and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Investigating serious injuries in collaboration with facility Management to identify root cause, countermeasures and validate action plan.
• Monitoring and analyzing completed incident reports to identify strategies to minimize and prevent incidents.
• Monitoring national and provincial regulatory updates to provide operations with awareness and strategies to comply.
• Developing and providing training sessions to provide guidance to health and safety advisors and operations’ leaders.
• Acting as point of contact to provide SJI leaders with health and safety standards and strategies guidance.
• Conducting site visits at facilities to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Attending at least one Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) meeting quarterly.
• Monitoring Canadian facilities KPIs.
• Supporting the HR department in RTW and other strategies.
• Preparing monthly and annual health and safety projects updates.
• Maintaining Convergence (Online Training) structure.
• Reviewing new SDSs and initiate the annual review of the facility level SDSs inventory.
• Perform other duties as required and requested.

Qualifications and Core Competencies

• Post-secondary education in health and safety or combination of education and experience.
• Proficient in French both spoken and written, English proficiency an asset
• CRSP/CSP (an asset)
• valid driver’s license
• Minimum 8 years of managing EHS and conducting H&S audits in an industrial environment
• Strong understanding of Federal and Provincial H&S regulatory requirements
• Proficient in developing and maintaining H&S management systems
• Experience with various H&S audit protocols (COR, ISO)
• Experience with the change management process
• Experience conducting incident investigations, root cause analysis and development of mitigation strategies
• Proficient in creating and presenting training materials
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite
• Able to work under pressure and prioritize projects
• Consistently applies strategic and critical thinking in all aspect of work
• Effective interpersonal and leadership skills
• Initiative-taking and excellent collaborator
• Knowledge of wood treating industry is an asset.

As a Stella-Jones employee, you will enjoy access to excellent benefits and incentives, including:

• Extended health and dental coverage
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D)
• Short-Term and Long-Term disability coverage
• Competitive compensation
• Annual Profit Share Program
• Retirement program (RRSP) with generous Company match (150% of employee's 4% contribution)
• Company Share Purchase Program with 25% Company contribution match
• Career advancement opportunities

Stella-Jones is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, provincial, or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Stella-Jones makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.