About The Role
The Safety, Health and Environment Specialist leads site‑wide SHE programs to ensure legal compliance, reduce risks and environmental impact, and strengthen a proactive safety culture. As part of the Plant Management Team, this role plays a central role in fostering a strong safety culture and supporting sustainable operational performance. The position drives continuous improvement, manages SHE incidents, and provides expert guidance across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
* Designs, maintains and leads the implementation of the local safety and environmental management systems
* Leads SHE incident management and drives management of relevant programs and actions relating to documented risks and or incident follow up
* Conducts SHE meetings, audits and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective and preventive actions and implement follow up assessments.
* Provides site employees, contractors and visitors with guidance on health and safety and confirms site complies with Barry Callebaut, industry, local, state/provincial and national guidelines and regulations.
* Collaborates with management to develop and maintain an Emergency Response Plan and serves as primary contact for site SHE incident notification, investigation and case management.
* Integrating occupational health and safety imperatives with business decision-making and risk management
* Advising on engineering and maintenance practices to drive improvement of safe systems
* Drive positive SHE culture, through but not limited to: embedding the 10 BC Life Saving Principles, Gemba safety talks and training, and putting Safety first demonstrated by consistent management behaviors
* Ensure compliance is regularly audited and performance assessed and use the results to drive further improvement.
* Responsible for monitoring and measurement of SHE KPIs and targets - SHE Scorecard
About You
* Master’s degree in Science or Engineering or equivalent industrial experience
* Qualifications required by local regulatory authorities: to add by the location
* Project Management skills
* Internal auditor or ISO auditor qualification a plus
* Experience of Lean/TPM tools and ways of working a plus
* Good working English required
* Understand the requirements of relevant standard such as ISO 14001; ISO 45001 or OSHSAS 18001
* Minimum 5 years’ experience in a factory-based role: Safety, Health or Environment role, Operations, Continuous Improvement, Process Improvement or Quality
* Experience with SHE management systems and risk management
* Experience with influencing behavioral change in a team/department
At Barry Callebaut, we are committed to Diversity & Inclusion. United by our strong values, we thrive on the diversity of who we are, where we come from, what we’ve experienced and how we think. We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where people can truly be themselves, grow to their full potential and feel they belong. #oneBC - Diverse People, Sustainable Growth.
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