Manager, Health & Safety

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Overview

Responsible for all activities and education related to health and safety, legislation. Providing guidance to our leadership teams to adopt and implement measures to reflect the priority and focus we have on health and safety. This role acts as an ambassador of our culture and values and will be responsible for supporting our locations in Quebec.

Work location: remote and flexible in Montreal.

How you will make contributions that matter:

• Collaborate closely with peer group in executing company safety policies by providing training and education to ensure that employees follow Corporate and Governmental Safety Standards.
• Work in collaboration with the Corporate Health & Safety team as well as other Quebec Health & Safety Specialists to foster and promote a culture of employee engagement and continuous learning.
• Influence change through comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis and proactively review and execute safety programs.
• Conduct frontline employee risk review and hazard assessments.
• Provide guidance and review of site incidents in developing supervisor’s skills in investigating and preparing detailed reports with strong corrective actions.
• Audit the facilities for legislative and corporate compliance and associated behaviors to ensure that training and preventative measures are addressing areas of opportunity.
• Support the deployment and integration of human organizational performance (HOP) for local Health and Safety team and operation and warehouse teams.
• Facilitate Learning Teams as needed.
• Partner with local agencies to develop strong relationships while developing a knowledge base within the dairy/food industry.
• Other duties as assigned.

You are best suited for the role if you have the following qualifications:

• A degree/diploma in Health and Safety or equivalent work experience. Registered as Canadian registered safety professional (CRSP), an asset.
• 2-3 years of Health and Safety experience in a medium to large organization.
• An ideal candidate has experience in HOP, training delivery, coaching and is motivated to seek and understand problems in a methodical way.
• Ability to communicate key HOP messages to senior leaders, site leaders, workforce and business partners.
• Understanding in operational learning methodologies that include both learning from incidents and learning from normal work.
• Ability to evaluate safeguards for error likely scenarios.
• Possess a thorough understanding of local and Quebec provincial regulations; CSA standards and ISO 45001.
• Ability to travel to Quebec sites and work all shifts as required (25% of time).
• Recognized leadership and autonomy, excellent communication, planning and work organization skills.
• Team oriented and strong ability to engage people.
• Proficiency reporting in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint with the ability to learn other online systems.
• Bilingual, French and English.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Advantageous corporate agreements
• Full range of group insurance benefits
• Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution
• Purchase option of company stocks
• Group RRSP
• Health and wellness program in the workplace
• Assistance program for employees and their families
• Saputo products at a discounted price

Salary

$90,530 to $118,820

We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family.

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