Environment, Health and Safety Manager [JH-15256]

Job summary

Lead health and safety programs across assigned poultry-processing facilities, ensuring regulatory and corporate compliance while managing investigations, audits, corrective actions, training, and emergency preparedness. Develop and coach safety staff, partner with operations leaders, and strengthen safety performance and continuous improvement across a unionized manufacturing environment.

Job details

A leading food manufacturing organization is seeking a Health and Safety Manager to oversee health and safety initiatives across multiple operational areas within its poultry processing business. The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership, ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety legislation, corporate standards, and industry best practices while driving continuous improvement and employee engagement. The Role: The Health and Safety Manager will lead and develop a team of Health and Safety Specialists and Coordinators while partnering with Operations and site leadership to strengthen safety performance across assigned facilities. This role will oversee safety programs, regulatory compliance, incident investigations, contractor management, training, and emergency preparedness, while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement in a unionized manufacturing environment. Key Responsibilities: Lead health and safety programs across assigned facilities, ensuring compliance with occupational health and safety legislation, WSIB requirements, corporate policies, Good Manufacturing Practices, and industry standards. Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to Health and Safety Specialists and Coordinators, partnering with Operations and the broader EHSS team to achieve safety objectives and drive continuous improvement. Oversee incident investigations, root cause analysis, safety performance reporting, workplace inspections, internal and external audits, and corrective action plans. Develop and maintain safety policies, procedures, orientation programs, job-specific training, and safe work practices, ensuring effective integration within the Integrated Management System (IMS). Manage key safety programs, including contractor compliance, machine safety, emergency response, first aid, respiratory protection, and regulatory liaison activities, while supporting environmental and sustainability initiatives. Qualifications: University degree or college diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or a related discipline; CRSP, CHSC, CSP, or equivalent safety designation preferred. Minimum 5–10 years of progressive health and safety experience in a similar industrial or manufacturing environment, preferably within a unionized workplace. Strong knowledge of Ontario occupational health and safety legislation, WSIB requirements, regulatory compliance, incident investigations, contractor safety, and workplace risk management. Proven leadership and people management skills, with experience coaching safety professionals, building high-performing teams, and developing strong relationships with employees, operational leaders, and external stakeholders. Strong business acumen, strategic thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in Microsoft Office and the ability to manage competing priorities, implement improvement initiatives, and deliver measurable results

What you’ll do

Lead health and safety programs across assigned poultry-processing facilities, ensuring regulatory and corporate compliance while managing investigations, audits, corrective actions, training, and emergency preparedness. Develop and coach safety staff, partner with operations leaders, and strengthen safety performance and continuous improvement across a unionized manufacturing environment.

Requirements

Requires a university degree or college diploma in occupational health and safety or a related discipline, with a CRSP, CHSC, CSP, or equivalent designation preferred. Candidates should have 5–10 years of progressive industrial or manufacturing safety experience, strong knowledge of Ontario legislation and WSIB requirements, and demonstrated leadership, communication, and problem-solving abilities.

Listed skills

• Continuous Improvement · Preferred
• Regulatory Compliance · Preferred
• Risk Management · Preferred
• Root Cause Analysis · Preferred
• Coaching · Preferred
• Team Leadership · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Occupational Health And Safety
• Regulatory Compliance
• Safety Program Management
• Team Leadership
• Coaching
• Incident Investigation
• Root Cause Analysis
• Workplace Inspections
• Auditing
• Contractor Safety Management
• Safety Training
• Emergency Preparedness
• Machine Safety
• Risk Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Stakeholder Communication

Job areas

• Security & Safety
• Manufacturing
• Management & Leadership
• Food & Beverage
• Environmental & Sustainability

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