Health, Safety and Environment Specialist

Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp. is a proud member of the Mondelēz family. We are a leading and growing North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years. If you're looking for a company that will provide you with opportunities for career growth and development, while working with an energetic team with deeply ingrained values of respect, direct and open communication, quality and accountability, we’d love to have you join our team. Our Consumer Brands: two-bite® brand, include two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™ and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™

Job Overview:

Responsible for providing leadership, support, and technical expertise to continuously improve the effectiveness of the site's HSE program, in accordance with applicable legislation and MDLZ standards. The role is tasked to ensure a safe workplace through prevention methods and the achievement of our strategic objectives (KPI’s, etc.)

*This is a fully on-site position*

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical resource for stakeholders by encouraging action in accordance with legislation and best practices, educating and generating awareness of HSE initiatives, and supporting continual development of the work environment and practices

• Ensure the monitoring, creation, implementation, and enforcement of HSE policies and procedures
• Revising and creating policies to stay current with department/company changes, legislation and related internal controls
• Maintain strict confidentiality of all information obtained, written, or verbally discussed within the HSE department

• Responsible to assist in the development, maintenance and implementation of site HSE Programs

• Assist in implementing forward thinking HSE efforts (risk-based and compliance)
• Remain current with legislation and leading best practices ensuring HSE policies and training are compliant

• Participate in discussions across the company to provide insight into current health and safety practices, as well as provide suggestions for areas of improvement

• Support and participate in the Joint Health & Safety Committees, continuously developing both the committee and the work environment through ongoing support in monthly meetings and inspections, coordination of workplace improvement activities, and education/training

• Identify training needs, co-ordinate, support, and conduct HSE training for sites

• Maintain a HSE training tracking sheet to ensure compliance and conduct formal safety orientations
• Participate in and conduct training initiatives as per business need
• Develop minutes and reports for documentation purposes
• Train and coach in situational challenges in different site areas, while providing support and recommendations for risk elimination

• Facilitate work environment hazard analysis/resolution through identification and elimination of hazards, calling meetings to review data, and making recommendations for resolution

• Continuously improve the HSE program through analyzing metrics and data, determining risk, and creating/implementing policies & activities for positive change, including external networking to develop best practices
• Facilitate incident investigations, proper root cause analyses, and development of corrective actions with responsible stakeholders

The Recipe for Success:

• Completion of a 4-year university degree in Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety or related field
• Minimum of 3 years of HSE experience
• Previous experience investigating incidents & accidents and conducting training in manufacturing environment
• Working towards CRSP or CHSC designation
• Excellent leadership and critical thinking skills – capable of leading cross functional teams in issue resolution and showing good judgement to put plans into effect to resolve concerns
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills to draft written correspondence
• Excellent influencing skills, with the ability to deal with conflict and crisis in a calm manner
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills (ability to be highly structured/detailed)
• Comfortable speaking in groups to present HSE training
• Excellent ability with MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Must stay current with legislation, regulations, theory, and case law related to Health & Safety and Canadian Standards Association (CSA). Current knowledge of changes and innovations in HSE.

What we can offer:

• It’s an exciting time to be part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part our growth and extraordinarily bright future.
• As we grow, we are committed to preserving the parts of our diversity & culture that is unique, people-focused and are core to our success at every size. Our values of Quality, Direct Communication and Respect mean something.
• Learning and growth; we are working to create an environment where sharing new ideas, experimenting and learning from each other is strongly encouraged.

Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply directly. Give and Go is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees regardless of race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic or national origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, record of offences (for which a pardon has been granted), disability, marital or family status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require an accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [email protected], citing "AODA" in the subject line, along with your request and contact information. While we appreciate all resume submissions, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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