Health and Safety Specialist
Wonderbrands View all jobs
- Calgary, AB
- $80,000-85,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure Occupational Health and Safety compliance with health and safety laws and regulations
- Actively coaches leaders in leadership behaviors to improve communication, safety behaviours and activities on the production floor to improve and attain a goal of zero injuries
- Performs safety evaluations, site level self-audits, run site safety committee and ergonomics programs
- Assist in the investigation and resolution of incidents including root-cause analysis and provide probable causes of incidents and recommendations for resolution and appropriate corrective and preventative measure.
- Attend all JHSC meetings facilitated by the business partner as an Advisor
- Work with our agency partners to share best practices related to H&S and jointly manage the return to work program
- Provides hands-on guidance to facility leaders regarding incident reporting/investigation program to ensure company standards and process are met
- Assists in the identification and analysis of trends. Communicates observations and provides suggestions for incident reduction measures
- Investigate/research; recommend and implement Health & Safety Best Practices
- Produce statistics for leaders regarding accidents
- Undertake risk assessments, site inspections and identify potential hazards
- Lead in-house training with operations team to address health and safety issues and risks and transfer knowledge
- Provides internal support for WSIB and Non-Work Related Incident cases. Acts as facility safety contact for these types of claims, interfaces with H&S/WSIB Specialist and injured team members
- Work with department leaders and T&D Business Partners to determine alternate duties, and return schedules
- Three to five years prior experience in a manufacturing setting working in a Health & Safety Role
- Proven competency in fostering a Health & Safety environment
- Proven facilitation, verbal and written communication skills along with superior interpersonal and organizational skills required to deliver training and coaching to teams and individuals at all levels within the organization
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment within specified timeframes and where attention to detail and effective multi-tasking is essential
- Customer and Product Centricity - Responds to the needs of both internal and external customers in a timely and courteous manner, showing a sense of urgency; always keeping our products front and centre.
- Flexibility, Agility, Adaptability - Adapts to changes; changes strategy in response to new information; responds appropriately and quickly without having all parameters defined; demonstrate tolerance for speed and uncertainty.
- Team Work and Collaboration - Uses appropriate interpersonal styles and methods of communication to gain agreement or acceptance of a plan or activity. Is effective in building constructive relationships; uses tact; interacts with others in an open, friendly manner, encourages collaboration.
- Passion for Excellence – Always looks for ways to improve effectiveness or efficiency, making recommendation to increase productivity in quality of work; develops innovative solutions, challenges the status quo. To be the best, never compromising.
- Drives Execution - Takes risks, learn from their mistakes, builds trust and is a role model to others. Has a “hands-on” style; is aggressive in achieving desired results.