Main mission
The OHS partner is responsible for defining, implementing and monitoring the company's occupational health and safety policy. It ensures a safe working environment that complies with the various regulations, laws and standards while promoting a culture of occupational risk prevention.
Key Responsibilities
- Development of the OHS strategy
- Define and manage the OHS policy in connection with the management's alignments.
- Setting occupational safety and health targets.
- Ensure regulatory and technical monitoring of the right behaviours to adopt.
- Plan, ensure compliance, and follow up on external audits and inspections in partnership with our external firm Médial.
- Occupational Risk Management
- Identify, assess and prevent occupational risks.
- Apply, supervise and track corrective actions with respect to risk assessments.
- Propose and implement corrective and preventive action plans.
- Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Manage relationships with various external partners.
- Ensure the follow-up of the CNESST's relative requirements.
- Work with our OHS event management partner.
- Animation and awareness
- Train and raise awareness among internal and external employees about good OHS practices.
- Plan, organize and lead prevention campaigns, audits, emergency inspections and simulations or Adhoc committees.
- Actively participate in the development of the health and safety culture in the company.
- Management and coordination
- Supervise, lead and monitor OHS activities via the OHS Committee in place.
- Ensure healthy relations between the various internal and external stakeholders during corrective interventions, improvements or compliance.
- Work as a team with the Human Resources, Maintenance and Production Management Department.
- Monitoring and performance indicators
- Monitor OSH performance indicators (KPIs) (AT/ASST, frequency rate, severity rate, etc.).
- Prepare periodic reviews and reports to be presented to management.
- Recommend areas for improvement.
Required skills
- Knowledge and mastery of occupational health and safety regulations (Labour Code, standards, laws, etc.).
- Knowledge of project management, risk management and OHS.
- Analytical skills, rigor, ability to manage crisis situations.
- Demonstrate positive, participatory and mobilizing leadership.
- Know how to manage priorities well.
- Be a role model in OSH.
- Adopt a high standard of professionalism, be respectful and have an ease of collaboration.
- Have an ability to communicate ideas and be proactive both orally and in writing.
- Proficient in the Office 365 suite.
Desired profile
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, with a certification in occupational health and safety.
- Significant experience (at least 5 years) in an OHS management function and in training.
- Bilingual English / French.
