Health and Safety Manager

**Position Title**:Health and Safety Manager **Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time **Position Location**: Portage La Prairie **Grade**: Grade 06 **Requisition ID**: 35979 **About McCain.** At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain **Leadership Principles.** Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles. **We are customer obsessed.** Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success. **We think big and plan ahead.** Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success. **We bring out the best in our people**. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together. **We act like owners.** Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain. **About the role.** In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy. We are currently looking for a** Health & Safety Manager located in Portage La Prairie, MB**. The Manager of Health, Safety, and Security is part of the Leadership Team at the Site providing guidance and strategic direction to leaders and implementing the management system (including, but not limited to work processes, standards, and procedures) as well as driving a Safety Mindset and Culture for all employees - For Us For Family. Leads with a proactive approach of continuous improvement in health, safety, and security and ensures emergency preparedness, crisis management, audit readiness, and compliance with compliance obligations. **Accountabilities**: - The position interacts with employees to ensure a culture of caring where each employee is accountable and responsible for Health & Safety conditions and behaviors. As a member of the leadership team, fosters and develops a culture where health & safety are ingrained as a core value with all employees; everyone believes zero harm is achievable and employees are actively engaged in performing their work in a safe manner while also preventing at-risk behaviors. - Ensures compliance with local, state/provincial, and federal health & safety compliance obligations. Acts as the primary plant representative in the event of regulatory site visits/inspections and engages with stakeholders in and outside the plant, including, but not limited to functional Corporate Team(s), Legal, and community resources. Develops and implements processes and procedures to ensure Site, employee, and contractor compliance with company and regulatory agencies. - Collaborates with other facility functions, (engineering, maintenance, food safety, quality assurance, etc.) to ensure new products, capital projects, and functional activities are aligned with facility health & safety objectives and injury prevention. - Implements McCain’s "Key Elements of Safety (KES)" of the health & safety management process and Cultural Assessment process, which includes identification of health & safety behavior supervisor training, and employee involvement to ensure a strong health & safety foundation and to build a culture of safety for all employees. Facilitates employee safety committees and acts as a resource for department health & safety meetings held by Line Supervisors and/or the Health and Safety department. - Utilizes internal and external resources in the development of building a sustainable comprehensive health and safety & security program. Stay abreast of pending developments in the health and safety & security area that could impact the Site via professional associations, workshops, etc. - Learning and developing the key skills required to implement continuous improvement disciplines into the safety improvement process (MDI). Participates and coordinates activities such as Kaizen events, and training/edu