Sustainability, Health & Safety Manager - Red Deer, AB

Description

The Sustainability, Health, & Safety (SHS) Manager - Manufacturing is responsible for ensuring that the overall Badger Infrastructure Solutions Sustainability, Health, and Safety Strategy is integrated into the manufacturing team’s day-to-day operations. This position reports directly to the VP Manufacturing, with functional reporting to the VP Sustainability, Health, and Safety.

This role champions communication of our Safety culture through strong messaging, rigorous engagement, transformational leadership, and coaching. Through continuous monitoring, reporting and analysis this role will ensure Manufacturing’s success in monitoring hazards, advising employees on ways to minimize risks, perform assessments to detect potential hazards and plan precautionary measures. 

The manager is accountable for ensuring that the processes and management systems are in place to prevent incidents and injuries. The Manager performs risk analysis and hazard assessments, supports training and competency development and assessment, identifies both safe and at-risk behaviors, identifies near misses and good catches, completes work site and equipment inspections, completes pre-job planning and incident investigations, provides change management and lessons learned, and promotes employee use of stop work authority.

• Develops and executes a 1-year business plan ensuring alignment with the overall corporate strategic plan, manufacturing’s business plan, and SHS’s business plans.
• Drives the annual improvement plan with engagement of the manufacturing management team.
• Interprets manufacturing strategies and aligns with Sustainability, Health, and Safety initiatives, strategies, reporting and organizational objectives.
• Promotes, applies, and leads SHS strategy to Manufacturing management, supervisors, and employees.
• Ensures the management has integrated plans for monitoring the manufacturing facilities for compliance with all Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) requirements.  
• Monitors and updates leadership with any changes in OHS legislation and or best practices impacting Manufacturing facilities, processes, and practices.
• Promotes the use and application of safety operating procedures.  
• Partners with manufacturing leadership to ensure all internal and external audits are executed with proper documentation, follow-up, and corrective actions.
• Supports and drives the development and implementation of SHS training as required for manufacturing.
• Leads and assists manufacturing supervision and management in completing incident investigations including root cause and counter measure analysis, preparation of reports, incident summaries, and management follow up.
• Assists manufacturing management with worker illness, injury, first aid, worker compensation claims, return to work, and other applicable SHS matters as requested.
• Ensures incidents, spills, and all reporting is documented and submitted in a timely manner to internal stakeholders and management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or a diploma in Occupational Health & Safety or related discipline, or a combination of education and management experience that would be considered equivalent.  
• Professional certification (CRSP or CSP) required.
• Minimum of 5 years of SHS or Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) Manager experience.
• Understanding of regulatory and technical matters related to managing health and safety risk and prior experience in a plant supporting SHS and HSE initiatives.
• Demonstrated use of decision-making skillset with the ability to make sound judgements.
• Ability to influence strategy and collaborate with cross functional leaders.
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and manage tight times.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Leadership, mentoring, coaching, and training experience preferred.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

The salary for this position will be commensurate with education or work experience.

Will be required to successfully complete pre-employment screening, which includes a criminal background check and drug and alcohol test.  

Badger Daylighting, and its parent company Badger Infrastructure Solutions Ltd. (TSX:BDGI), is North America’s largest provider of non-destructive excavating services. We work for contractors and facility owners in a broad range of infrastructure industries, including energy generation, electricity and natural gas transmission networks, roads and highways, telecommunications, water and sewage treatment and general municipal infrastructure. 

Our key technology is the Badger HydrovacTM, which is used primarily for safe excavation around critical infrastructure and in congested underground conditions. The Badger Hydrovac uses a pressurized water stream to liquefy the soil cover, which is then removed with a powerful vacuum system and deposited into a storage tank. Badger manufactures and designs our truck-mounted hydrovac units, giving us the opportunity to incorporate feedback from our hydrovac operators into existing and future design and manufacturing processes.

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