Health & Safety Coordinator (Contract)
About the role
POSITION TITLE: Health & Safety Coordinator
LOCATION: Barrie, Ontario
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Contract
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited is looking for a Health and Safety Coordinator to join our Health and Safety team for a 6-9 month contract at our Barrie, ON manufacturing facility. We are seeking an ambitious and progressive candidate to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. This is a great opportunity to be part of a growing team that manufactures heavy duty mobile mining vehicles for our customers worldwide.
About the Position**:** The Health and Safety Coordinator works closely with production and will assist the Health and Safety team with the development, implementation and promotion of strategies, procedures and systems across the company leading teams above and beyond compliance. The position also requires the following proficiencies:
- Develop content for online training, using Articulate software
- Coordinate and assess effectiveness of orientation and training activities
- Create monthly Safety Talks and support supervisors by attending regularly
- Prepare content and lead monthly meetings with Supervisors (SafeSups)
- Audit and lead action plans by evaluating program elements (Emergency Response, Machine-guarding, WHMIS, First Aid etc.) through observation, interviews, surveys, and documentation review.
- Ensure systems, processes and procedures are in place for early identification of hazards and appropriate communication of changes
- Develop and support Job Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments, advising on opportunities for improvement and process/procedure development,
- Update/Prepare/Assist supervisors with gaps from HS metrics (leading and lagging indicators)
- Review incident investigations and associated trends; Assist supervisors w/root causes, corrective actions, and follow up
- Draft and submit workers’ compensation reports, assist with return-to-work process (modified duties documentation, meet with employees, follow up on cases)
- Provide support to Joint Health, Safety Committee and assist with administrative tasks
- Create content and update communication boards
- Stay current with legislation changes and ensure organization complies with/implements standards, technical documents, policies and procedures
- Make recommendations on personal protective equipment
- Organize and act on air/noise assessments and medical surveillance as required
- Perform ergonomic assessments and recommend suitable tools/ equipment
- Encourage site-consistency in equipment use and processes
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure that all policies and procedures take health and safety into account.
- Travel between sites as required
- Attend training, conferences and symposiums as required
Qualifications
Education
- Health, Safety related certificate, diploma, degree, or equivalent
Experience
- Two or more years working in a similar role preferred
- Previous experience in a manufacturing environment is an asset
Skills
- Detailed-oriented and highly organized is a must
- Team-oriented, positive attitude, high aptitude, humble and willingness to learn
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Self-motivated; able to schedule priorities as assigned, working with minimal direct supervision
- Well-developed analytical and critical thinking skills
- Creative and innovative with focus on problem solving
Please note that employment with MacLean Engineering is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check conducted by our third-party provider, Sterling Backcheck. This process may include verification of employment history, education, and a criminal record check, depending on the requirements of the position.
We thank all applicants in advance for their application and interest in MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited. However only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005).
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.
About MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited
Great Things Happen Here
Equipping the mining world with innovative mobile equipment solutions is what we do at MacLean, but more importantly is the why. We aspire to be best-in-class leaders in the design, manufacturing, and support of engineered solutions that make mining safer, greener, and more productive. This brand promise is inextricably linked to our people.
We are building a diverse, top-performing employee base by hiring entrepreneurial, creative, hardworking, ethical, and safety focused candidates who want to make a lasting difference and build a career doing it. If this sound like you, dive in and join the MacLean innovation wave!
Join the MacLean innovation wave!
We are a global, family-owned company where we treat each other, our customers, and our host communities as if they were family. This is our competitive differentiator across the board when it comes to employee development, customer relationships, and business results.
Our production facility and branch footprint on four continents and market reach into six continents is in keeping with the scope of our ambition to develop paradigm-changing, tech-enabled mining vehicles the world over. This transformative vision requires a wide range of talent working together across the company’s manufacturing, engineering, product management, marketing, sales, aftermarket support, finance, and human resource functions.
Who we are
MacLean specializes in mobile equipment solutions based on underground mining experience, unit-of-one manufacturing expertise, and worldwide customer service and support.
We have been innovating for mining equipment safety and productivity for almost 50 years, supporting customers worldwide with branches across Canada as well as in the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and Australia.
Our Story
MacLean is the world’s largest Canadian-based underground mining vehicle manufacturer.
From modest beginnings retrofitting farm tractors out of an apple orchard barn in Southern Georgian Bay, Ontario, to today’s multi-national corporate network of some 1,000 employees across four continents and six countries, the next chapters of the MacLean mining innovation story are actively being written within the broad themes of the electrification, automation, and digitalization of the global industry.
The constant across the shifting sands of time and geography is the MacLean commitment to pursuing engineered solutions that make the underground environment safer and more productive.
The foundation for all of our work together is a shared culture of entrepreneurial innovation and customer focus. When we create what we call MacLean ‘Application Intelligence’ for the mining sector, we are leveraging multi disciplinary engineering expertise, continental manufacturing capacity, and decades of mining knowledge, to deliver safety and productivity enhancing solutions to the end-users who operate and maintain our products in underground mines around the globe.
We are a major employer in our host communities and, as such, we strive to be an employer of choice. On the leading edge of technological and manufacturing innovation, we never lose sight of the people behind the machines – the MacLean employees across our production facilities who work to create products of lasting value for the mining sector.
Our Values
The MacLean Way is our overarching vision, mission, and values statement. It is the embodiment of our history, present, and future: where we came from, who we are now, and where we are going.
Health & Safety Coordinator (Contract)
About the role
POSITION TITLE: Health & Safety Coordinator
LOCATION: Barrie, Ontario
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Contract
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited is looking for a Health and Safety Coordinator to join our Health and Safety team for a 6-9 month contract at our Barrie, ON manufacturing facility. We are seeking an ambitious and progressive candidate to work in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines. This is a great opportunity to be part of a growing team that manufactures heavy duty mobile mining vehicles for our customers worldwide.
About the Position**:** The Health and Safety Coordinator works closely with production and will assist the Health and Safety team with the development, implementation and promotion of strategies, procedures and systems across the company leading teams above and beyond compliance. The position also requires the following proficiencies:
- Develop content for online training, using Articulate software
- Coordinate and assess effectiveness of orientation and training activities
- Create monthly Safety Talks and support supervisors by attending regularly
- Prepare content and lead monthly meetings with Supervisors (SafeSups)
- Audit and lead action plans by evaluating program elements (Emergency Response, Machine-guarding, WHMIS, First Aid etc.) through observation, interviews, surveys, and documentation review.
- Ensure systems, processes and procedures are in place for early identification of hazards and appropriate communication of changes
- Develop and support Job Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments, advising on opportunities for improvement and process/procedure development,
- Update/Prepare/Assist supervisors with gaps from HS metrics (leading and lagging indicators)
- Review incident investigations and associated trends; Assist supervisors w/root causes, corrective actions, and follow up
- Draft and submit workers’ compensation reports, assist with return-to-work process (modified duties documentation, meet with employees, follow up on cases)
- Provide support to Joint Health, Safety Committee and assist with administrative tasks
- Create content and update communication boards
- Stay current with legislation changes and ensure organization complies with/implements standards, technical documents, policies and procedures
- Make recommendations on personal protective equipment
- Organize and act on air/noise assessments and medical surveillance as required
- Perform ergonomic assessments and recommend suitable tools/ equipment
- Encourage site-consistency in equipment use and processes
- Collaborate with other departments to ensure that all policies and procedures take health and safety into account.
- Travel between sites as required
- Attend training, conferences and symposiums as required
Qualifications
Education
- Health, Safety related certificate, diploma, degree, or equivalent
Experience
- Two or more years working in a similar role preferred
- Previous experience in a manufacturing environment is an asset
Skills
- Detailed-oriented and highly organized is a must
- Team-oriented, positive attitude, high aptitude, humble and willingness to learn
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Self-motivated; able to schedule priorities as assigned, working with minimal direct supervision
- Well-developed analytical and critical thinking skills
- Creative and innovative with focus on problem solving
Please note that employment with MacLean Engineering is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check conducted by our third-party provider, Sterling Backcheck. This process may include verification of employment history, education, and a criminal record check, depending on the requirements of the position.
We thank all applicants in advance for their application and interest in MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited. However only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005).
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.
About MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited
Great Things Happen Here
Equipping the mining world with innovative mobile equipment solutions is what we do at MacLean, but more importantly is the why. We aspire to be best-in-class leaders in the design, manufacturing, and support of engineered solutions that make mining safer, greener, and more productive. This brand promise is inextricably linked to our people.
We are building a diverse, top-performing employee base by hiring entrepreneurial, creative, hardworking, ethical, and safety focused candidates who want to make a lasting difference and build a career doing it. If this sound like you, dive in and join the MacLean innovation wave!
Join the MacLean innovation wave!
We are a global, family-owned company where we treat each other, our customers, and our host communities as if they were family. This is our competitive differentiator across the board when it comes to employee development, customer relationships, and business results.
Our production facility and branch footprint on four continents and market reach into six continents is in keeping with the scope of our ambition to develop paradigm-changing, tech-enabled mining vehicles the world over. This transformative vision requires a wide range of talent working together across the company’s manufacturing, engineering, product management, marketing, sales, aftermarket support, finance, and human resource functions.
Who we are
MacLean specializes in mobile equipment solutions based on underground mining experience, unit-of-one manufacturing expertise, and worldwide customer service and support.
We have been innovating for mining equipment safety and productivity for almost 50 years, supporting customers worldwide with branches across Canada as well as in the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and Australia.
Our Story
MacLean is the world’s largest Canadian-based underground mining vehicle manufacturer.
From modest beginnings retrofitting farm tractors out of an apple orchard barn in Southern Georgian Bay, Ontario, to today’s multi-national corporate network of some 1,000 employees across four continents and six countries, the next chapters of the MacLean mining innovation story are actively being written within the broad themes of the electrification, automation, and digitalization of the global industry.
The constant across the shifting sands of time and geography is the MacLean commitment to pursuing engineered solutions that make the underground environment safer and more productive.
The foundation for all of our work together is a shared culture of entrepreneurial innovation and customer focus. When we create what we call MacLean ‘Application Intelligence’ for the mining sector, we are leveraging multi disciplinary engineering expertise, continental manufacturing capacity, and decades of mining knowledge, to deliver safety and productivity enhancing solutions to the end-users who operate and maintain our products in underground mines around the globe.
We are a major employer in our host communities and, as such, we strive to be an employer of choice. On the leading edge of technological and manufacturing innovation, we never lose sight of the people behind the machines – the MacLean employees across our production facilities who work to create products of lasting value for the mining sector.
Our Values
The MacLean Way is our overarching vision, mission, and values statement. It is the embodiment of our history, present, and future: where we came from, who we are now, and where we are going.