Manager Health and Safety – Grand Falls

This is a fixed-term 15-month contract opportunity. The Manager, Health, Safety and Security is a key member of the site Leadership Team, responsible for providing strategic direction, coaching, and expertise to ensure a safe, healthy, and secure workplace. This role leads the implementation and continuous improvement of McCain's health, safety, and security management systems while fostering a proactive safety culture built on our "For Us For Family" mindset. The position partners closely with site leaders, employees, corporate functions, and external stakeholders to drive compliance, reduce risk, strengthen emergency preparedness, and embed safety as a core organizational value.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Champion a culture of caring where employees are accountable for their own health and safety and actively work to prevent at-risk behaviors.
• Partner with site leadership to embed safety and health as core values, driving engagement and continuous improvement toward an injury-free workplace.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and company health, safety, and security requirements, acting as the site lead during regulatory inspections and audits.
• Develop, implement, and maintain health, safety, and security policies, procedures, and programs that support operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
• Lead behavior-based safety initiatives, cultural assessments, and key elements of McCain's safety management system to strengthen safety fundamentals across the facility.
• Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, quality, and operations teams to ensure new products, projects, and processes align with site safety objectives.
• Utilize leading and lagging indicators to measure performance, identify opportunities, and drive data-informed safety improvements.
• Manage Workers' Compensation programs in partnership with Risk Management and support effective case management and return-to-work practices.
• Oversee site security programs, systems, and personnel, including conducting security audits and ensuring appropriate corrective actions are completed.
• Maintain emergency preparedness and crisis management plans, facilitating training exercises, drills, and simulations to ensure organizational readiness.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, including participation in Kaizen events, employee training, and process improvement activities.
• Provide leadership and development support to the site Safety Coordinator while influencing safety performance across the manufacturing facility.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful:

• Advanced Safety Certificate, Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Certified Safety Professional (CSP), or equivalent safety leadership experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in health, safety, and security management within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local safety regulations and workers' compensation requirements.
• Experience developing and delivering safety training programs and leading organizational change initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and employees at all levels and build a strong safety culture.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and behavior-based safety programs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience utilizing leading and lagging safety metrics.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and HR information systems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

This role is part of the site Leadership Team and reports directly to the Plant Manager, with a strong dotted-line reporting relationship to the Director of Safety & Health. The position has direct leadership responsibility for the site Safety Coordinator and works closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, human resources, and corporate health and safety teams.

Compensation Package: $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 CAD annual base salary equivalency, paid in alignment to contract term. The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we're on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Should this role hold a duration of 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite. This includes health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.