Health & Safety Advisor

Company Profile - Cérélia Bakery

Cérélia North America is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario (Canada), which was incorporated in 1983. Cérélia’s key businesses are food manufacturing of cookies, rolled dough and pancakes/waffles for retail, food service and brands. Cérélia North America employs approximately 900 associates.

The activities of Cérélia North America are split over 3 different locations:
**Toronto, Ontario (CA)**: 2 factories and 1 distribution Center (cookies)

**Columbus, Ohio (USA)**: 1 factory (cookies & rolled dough)

**Liberty, South Carolina (USA)**: 1 factory (pancakes & waffles)

Cérélia Group currently operates 12 production plants globally with approximately 2,500 associates throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. Products are sold in 50 countries with current sales above 600 million Euros (CA$800 million). Cérélia ’s business model is the combination of quality, innovation, and cost efficiency. Cérélia has invested more than CA$250M in new factories and production lines in North America.

At the core of Cérélia’s strategy, our corporate responsibility focus points include the reduction of our environmental footprint, a responsible sourcing policy, the improvement of the nutritional profile of our products, and finally the development and engagement of our associates.

Cérélia expects and supports its associates to demonstrate the following core values:
**Entrepreneurial Spirit**: “Every day is an opportunity”
Together with Cérélia “Building our success together”

**Commitment**: “Positive energy in everything we do”

Company Offering

Our ambition is to become the world leading partner for dough solutions, empowering consumers to create happy home baking moments.

Cérélia offers a wide range of baked cookies, cookie dough, pizza dough, pie crust, puff pastry, pancakes, frozen waffles, and breakfast sandwiches; commercialized under our clients’ brands, both retailers, food service and industrial companies, as well as under its own brands: English Bay Bakery, JusRol, and Pop Bakery.

Company Strategy

Cérélia North America’s strategy is articulated around 4 axes, aiming to improving its performance and seizing future growth opportunities, while embracing the company’s heritage and distinctive strengths:
**Create a solid base**: doing well what we do today, increase customer satisfaction and profitability

**Drive innovation around our 3 product platforms**: cookies, rolled dough and pancakes / waffles

**Enhance our capabilities & talent**: implementing new systems, developing a broader industrial footprint, and investing in our talent
Accelerate growth, through organic growth, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions

In 2020, we reset and refocused the business around the Toronto facilities for cookies, while adding rolled dough products with an excellent reputation and distribution across the US retailers, to our portfolio.

In March 2021, US Waffle, leader in pancakes & waffles joined the Cérélia family. In June 2021, we opened a new, state-of-the art, 150,000 sqft factory in Columbus, Ohio.

Cérélia continues to strengthen the relationship with its strategic customers across multiple distribution channels: food service, in-store bakeries, retailers, clubs, convenience stores, and industrial partners.

Primary Responsibilities

Reporting to the VP, People &Culture, the Health and Safety Advisor leads the development, the execution and the monitoring of the of EHS programs and initiatives in compliance with Federal and State regulations and standards. The Health and Safety Advisor works closely with operations management and employees to develop an EHS culture and improve the overall EHS performance. This is a hands-on role with significant time spent in all parts of the operation, observing, monitoring, training and coaching employees towards EHS goals and initiatives.

Drive the implementation of EHS Programs to achieve EHS excellence. This will include but not limited to all environmental expectations, emergency preparedness, safety risk assessments (SRA’s) and EHS procedures, hazardous materials, ergonomics, contractor safety, EHS culture, security, etc.
Drive improvement and track goal(s) achievement through collection, analysis and communication of EHS and KPI data (including but not limited to programs evaluation, workplace audits, training completion, injuries and illnesses and other significant events in an EHS management system.
Develop and implement appropriate corrective preventive actions / continuous improvement plans.
Drive EHS compliance to ensure completion and accurate recording of EHS metrics, including training, audit findings, inspections, etc.
Monitor and recommend best practices, and develop policies, procedures related to Environment, Health & Safety.
Participate in the design phase of continuous improvement, operation, and CAPEX projects.
Ensure ongoing compliance and interpretation to internal p