Position Summary

Reporting to the Director, Human Resources, the Manager, Safety will lead a team of Safety Advisors who will be located or assigned within the concrete, aggregate and cement businesses. This team will partner with local business leaders to ensure compliance and provide day-to-day leadership in the continued building of a culture of safety

Primary Responsibilities:

·         Corporate Social Responsibilities

·         Build strong and effective relationships with business leaders at all levels to gain sustainable commitment towards a strong culture of safety.

·         Drive safety performance to world class standards

·         Ensure compliance with corporate and legislative requirements.

·         Develop, implement and monitor safety program activities to meet business targets and objectives.

Human Resource Excellence

·         Create a high performance environment through "engaged" employees; Champion and conduct effective performance management; Coach and develop management capability for continued organizational effectiveness.

·         Support/implement HR programs and policies.

Better Cost Management

·         Work closely with the Corporate Safety Director to ensure continued alignment between the businesses and corporate safety mandates.

·         Drive continuous improvement of safety programs by leading ongoing audit and assessment processes

·         Organize and lead the organizational unit/operations to ensure efficiency, quality, service, and cost-effective management of resources.

·         Manage budgets, monitor, measure and report on operational issues; Analyze results and initiate appropriate action to achieve/exceed business objectives and targets.

·         Build effective partnerships with other organizational units and shared services to maximize best practices to achieve operational excellence.

Sustainable Environment Performance

·         Understand and operate in accordance with company programs, policies and legislative requirements to ensure that environmental standards and performance objective targets are met.

Permanent Market Innovation

·         Work closely with various businesses and cross-functional teams to establish safety strategy, tactics and targets and review the ongoing effectiveness of the safety program.

·         Develop innovative strategies to improve departmental initiatives and ensure continuous improvement.

·         Proactively build relationships with internal and external customers/suppliers to achieve a high level of quality in products and services.

Position Dimensions:

Energize People

·         Demonstrates a sense of optimism, ownership, and commitment; Encourages others to work hard and do their best to meet high performance standards; Provides praise or encouragement to others for efforts and accomplishments.

·         Listens carefully and attentively to others' opinions and ideas; Supports the open expression of all information and viewpoints.

·         Identifies the qualifications required for successful job performance; Makes accurate evaluations of people's capability and fit, using sound techniques to evaluate people's capabilities and performance, putting the right people in the right jobs.

·         Provides honest, helpful feedback to others on their performance; ·         Cultivates networks with people across a variety of functions and locations within the organization.

·         Provides useful on-the-job coaching & suggestions for improvement; Recommends developmental activities to other when the opportunity arises.

·         Encourages people to draw on each other's strengths and experience to work together effectively, within and across teams.  

Act as a Role Model

·         Demonstrates an openness to new ideas, assumptions, and opportunities. Takes advantage of available opportunities to update knowledge, skills, and abilities.

·         Can consistently be trusted to maintain confidences, and encourages others to do the same. 

·         Can be counted on to always follow through on commitments made to others.

Think the Business

·         Identifies and utilizes effective and integrative strategies for achieving individual and work unit goals.

·         Consistently makes sound decisions on everyday issues and problems, balancing information gathering with decisiveness.

·         Collects and understands important data used for financial metrics; Systematically and consistently draws accurate conclusions from financial and quantitative information.

Deliver Results

·         Focuses on appropriate details, so work gets done accurately; Acts resourcefully to ensure that work is completed within specified time and quality parameters.

·         Works to deliver on commitments and exceed customer requirements.

·         Achieves work objectives.

·         Works with others or gathers their input to enhance work processes or structures.

Experience & Educational Requirements:

·         Minimum 5 years progressive experience managing safety program in multi-site organization.

·         Strong change management skills including development and execution of culturally-aligned change management strategies and targeted plans

·         Demonstrated ability to engage and inspire and effectively develop and lead people

·         University Degree or College Diploma in related field.

·         Strong investigative, analytical, human relations and communication skills are required.

·         Sound working knowledge of the Ontario OH&S Act, Workplace Safety and Insurance Act.

·         Knowledge of Building Code, Industrial Hygiene standards, Construction Safety an asset.