Manager, Regional Food & Safety

What You'll Do

You will oversee the development, implementation, and review of Food Safety and Health and Safety programs to ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements across multiple sites. You will provide leadership and direction to site management teams, supervise a direct report, and manage strategic initiatives to drive continuous improvement in safety performance. This role requires travel up to 50% of the time.

Essential Functions

• Develop, maintain, and review Food Safety and Health and Safety programs to ensure compliance with current and future legal, regulatory, and corporate requirements.
• Provide direct supervisory oversight to a Regional Food Safety Specialist and support site management teams in integrating safety performance and compliance into facility operations.
• Manage strategic reviews and implement objectives and programs to improve Food Safety and Health and Safety performance and mitigate future liabilities.
• Track metrics and drive improvement in Food Safety and Health and Safety performance, including processes to reduce associate injury and lost time rates and proactively manage Worker's Compensation cases.
• Conduct annual Safety Management Systems audits and facility readiness assessments for Global Food Safety Initiative audits and oversee regulatory reporting requirements.
• Represent the company on Food Safety and Health and Safety matters with external parties and ensure appropriate response to regulatory and legal issues.
• Oversee annual budgeting for self and direct report and support selected corporate initiatives with global application.
• Other essential duties may be applicable and assigned as necessary.

What Experience and Education You Need

• Bachelor's degree required in Safety Science, Safety Engineering, Safety Management, Risk Management, Food Science or equivalent.
• Minimum 7 years of experience required.
• Multi-site experience required.
• Knowledge of food safety and safety training management and Canadian standards and regulations.
• Experience with development and management of safety systems across multiple locations.

What Could Set You Apart

• Experience in warehouse or transportation industry.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently.
• Effective verbal and written communication.
• Ability to communicate professionally with all levels of the organization.
• Sound judgment in decision making.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Project.
• Initiative and self-motivation.
• Project management skills.

Physical Requirements

• Requires several hours per day of sitting, getting up and down from chairs, reaching, and/or bending.

• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work, including the operation of computers, telephones, and similar equipment.

• Requires ability to comprehend and communicate with others, verbally and/or in writing.

• May require travel by automobile and airplane for business.

• May require visits to warehouse operations in temperatures at or below freezing.

• May require the occasional lifting, carrying, positioning, and/or moving of objects weighing up to 20 pounds.