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Position Title: Manager Health and Safety Grand Falls

Position Type: Temporary - Full-Time ​

Requisition ID: 45272

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In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About the role.This is a fixed-term 15-month contract prospect. The Manager, Health, Safety and Security is a key member of the site Leadership Team, responsible for providing strategic direction, coaching, and expertise to ensure a safe, healthy, and secure workplace. This role leads the implementation and continuous improvement of McCain’s health, safety, and security management systems while fostering a proactive safety culture built on our “For Us For Family” mindset.

The position partners closely with site leaders, employees, corporate functions, and external stakeholders to drive compliance, reduce risk, strengthen emergency preparedness, and embed safety as a core organizational value.

What you’ll be doing.

- Champion a culture of caring where employees are accountable for their own health and safety and actively work to prevent at-risk behaviors.
- Partner with site leadership to embed safety and health as core values, driving engagement and continuous improvement toward an injury-free workplace.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, local, and company health, safety, and security requirements, acting as the site lead during regulatory inspections and audits.
- Develop, implement, and maintain health, safety, and security policies, procedures, and programs that support operational excellence and regulatory compliance.
- Lead behavior-based safety initiatives, cultural assessments, and key elements of McCain’s safety management system to strengthen safety fundamentals across the facility.
- Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, quality, and operations teams to ensure new products, projects, and processes align with site safety objectives.
- Utilize leading and lagging indicators to measure performance, identify opportunities, and drive data-informed safety improvements.
- Manage Workers’ Compensation programs in partnership with Risk Management and support effective case management and return-to-work practices.
- Oversee site security programs, systems, and personnel, including conducting security audits and ensuring appropriate corrective actions are completed.
- Maintain emergency preparedness and crisis management plans, facilitating training exercises, drills, and simulations to ensure organizational readiness.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives, including participation in Kaizen events, employee training, and process improvement activities.
- Provide leadership and development support to the site Safety Coordinator while influencing safety performance across the manufacturing facility.

What you’ll need to be successful.

- Advanced Safety Certificate, Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Certified Safety Professional (CSP),



or equivalent safety leadership experience.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in health, safety, and security management within a manufacturing or industrial environment.
- Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local safety regulations and workers’ compensation requirements.
- Experience developing and delivering safety training programs and leading organizational change initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders and employees at all levels and build a strong safety culture.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and behavior-based safety programs.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience utilizing leading and lagging safety metrics.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and HR information systems.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

About the team.This role is part of the site Leadership Team and reports directly to the Plant Manager, with a strong dotted-line reporting relationship to the Director of Safety & Health. The position has direct leadership responsibility for the site Safety Coordinator and works closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, quality, human resources, and corporate health and safety teams. As a highly visible leadership role, this position plays a critical part in shaping and sustaining the culture of the manufacturing facility.

About McCain.Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.

Leadership principles.At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

AI & Digital Capabilities.At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture.

The McCain experience.We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another.

Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.Our purpose is grounded in building meaningful relationships. We’re big believers in the power of working together in person—it helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and grow as a team.





At the same time, we recognize the importance of flexibility. Most office-based roles follow a hybrid model, with the option to work remotely two days a week. There may be exceptions depending on the role and location, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter for more details. Compensation Package: $97,500.00 - $130,000.00 0 CAD annual base salary equivalency, paid in alignment to contract term The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting.

Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Should this role hold a duration 12 months or longer, you will be eligible for our full benefits suite.

This includes the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.

Job Family: Manufacturing

Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Grand Falls

Company: McCain Foods (Canada)

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