Safety Specialist

Overview:

- **Who we are**

Imagine working in a place where **continuous improvement** and** innovation** is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.

But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.

At 7-Eleven the **entrepreneurial spirit** is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to **better serve the needs of our customers**.

Today we are **redefining convenience and the customer experience** in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to **come make history with us**.
- **How we lead**

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our **Leadership Principles**.
- Be Customer Obsessed
- Be Courageous with Your Point of View
- Challenge the Status Quo
- Act Like an Entrepreneur
- Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
- Do the Right Thing
- Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

**Responsibilities**:

- Monitor the various safety risks and hazards within the workplace (stores, food centers, and office) to ensure the safety of all team members, customers, and visitors. The Safety Specialist will lead efforts to implement programs and policies that will result in safe work practices, regulatory compliance, and a reduction in work-related injuries._

The Safety Specialist’s general duties will include:

- Developing 7-Eleven Canada Safety goals and implementing programs, policies, and initiatives to achieve them;
- Direct engagement with Operational leadership, stores, food centers, and office management to assist in conducting risk assessments of workplace hazards. Developing corrective action plans/mitigation measures for safety deficiencies that are identified;
- Conducting employee injury investigations and performing root cause analysis;
- Supporting store implementation of safety programs, policies, and procedures;
- Monitoring the environment for regulatory risks;
- Monitoring store compliance with 7-Eleven’s safety policies and procedures;
- Engaging with Operational Leadership (Market Managers, Area Leaders) on safety best practices to assist in developing a proactive Safety culture;
- Collaborate with Corporate Affairs and Legal to ensure regulatory compliance. Review and monitor company OHS policies and procedures including (but not limited to) the following:

- COVID prevention controls and mitigation measures
- First Aid procedures
- Violence prevention procedures
- Working alone procedures
- Emergency procedures
- Bullying and harassment procedures
- WHMIS
- Implement and oversee safety-related training programs for store-level associates, including new-hire onboarding and regular refresher training on critical OHS topics.
- Verify that stores are executing key OHS programs, policies, and procedures including, but not limited to:

- Conducting Safety checklists.
- Maintaining a dedicated store-level Safety Captain/Safety representative.
- Conducting routine store-level Safety meetings.
- Perform store-level safety audits and inspections to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and company safety policies.
- Collaborate with Legal, Government Affairs, and other support resources to respond to regulatory inquiries, inspections, and investigations. Work with stores to ensure compliance with all orders.
- Legal and Government Affairs to continue to provide oversight of OHS enforcement risk to the corporation and to communicate to OHS agencies of complied orders.
- The Safety Specialist will play a critical support role in gathering necessary documentation and facts to assist with 7-Eleven’s response.

Qualifications:

- 7-10 years of hands-on safety experience, with a background in Occupational Health & Safety or Regulatory Compliance
- Location - Calgary, Alberta with the availability to travel across Canada as job requires.