National Health and Safety Coordinator

EMCO Corporation is one of Canada's leading construction wholesale distribution businesses, serving contractors and partners across the country. Backed by more than 115 years of experience, we combine the strength and stability of a national organization with the agility and entrepreneurial spirit of a growing business.

Our purpose is to help build stronger communities by delivering the products, expertise, and service that support critical systems in residential, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure projects across Canada.

What makes EMCO Corporation different is our people and culture.

Our teammates are empowered to make decisions, develop customer relationships, drive growth, and shape the future of their business. We provide the tools, support, and mentorship needed to succeed, while encouraging initiative, accountability, and innovation.

Our culture is built on four core values:

Fairness & Caring

Trust & Respect

Generous Listening

Straight Talk

Diversity, Inclusion & Opportunity

EMCO Corporation is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where every teammate can succeed. We believe that diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and ideas make us a stronger organization and better partner to our customers.

We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, and individuals from all backgrounds. We are particularly committed to increasing representation of women in leadership and throughout the construction wholesale industry by creating an environment where talent, performance, and potential drive opportunity.

Why Join EMCO Corporation? Learn from experienced leaders and mentors

Participate in industry-leading training and development programs.

Competitive salary, benefits, pension, and profit-sharing programs

Long-term career growth with one of Canada's most respected organizations

Team-oriented culture that supports work-life balance.

Job Description The Health and Safety Coordinator, reporting to the National Health & Safety Leader, plays a key role in fostering and advancing Emco's world-class Health, Safety, and Wellness (HS&W) culture, supporting our vision that “No One at Emco Gets Hurt.”

In this role, you will contribute to the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of a wide range of HS&W programs and initiatives that help Emco meet its health and safety objectives and regulatory obligations. Responsibilities include supporting program development, conducting safety assessments and inspections, evaluating Profit Centre (PC) safety programs, assisting with environmental health and safety initiatives, developing and implementing policies and procedures, coordinating incident investigations, and maintaining health and safety data and reporting processes.

Working closely with management and teammates across the organization, the Health and Safety Coordinator provides guidance, support, and expertise on all matters related to health, safety, and wellness, helping to create a safe and healthy workplace for everyone.

Job Responsibilities H&S Incident Tracking, Reporting and Follow-up

Lead the process of tracking and reporting H&S incidents from inception to completion. This includes reconciling the status between internal incident records and third party WCB board records, ensuring timely follow-up and communication of incident status

Coordinate with Emco’s third party WCB claims management team (Windley Ely), the Payroll and Benefits team administrators and PC Managers (PCMs) as needed throughout the life of active WCB claims

Interact with PCs, Windley Ely, and Payroll and Benefits team to ensure incident/hazard reports are completed with the appropriate information, including recommendations and corrective actions

Conduct post-incident investigations when needed including interviews with injured teammates to effectively track root causes and corrective actions

Process WCB invoices, statements, payroll assessments, and payments as required by each jurisdiction

HS&W Policy Maintenance and Support of Strategic Priorities

Support the National Health and Safety Leader regarding key priorities including:

Write, publish, and communicate policies, supplements, PowerBI’s, Reports, job aids and best practices that support sustainable safe workplaces.

Assess HS&W risks at a PC level, develop teammates understanding of such risks and support the implementation of controls at the PC level to ensure safe work environments

Provide tailored recommendations for annual regional priorities including supporting annual health, safety and wellness forecast reviews

Facilitate regular regional HS&W meetings t