At Saputo, we bring good to the table by making high-quality products, investing in our people, and supporting communities around the world . As a top 10 global dairy processor, we value contributions that matter and strive to foster an inclusive, growth-driven work environment. Ready to bring your best?
Overview of the Role
Saputo Dairy Products Canada is seeking a passionate Health & Safety Specialist for a contract role (until March 31, 2028) to support and advance all health and safety initiatives, programs, and legislative compliance activities. This role partners closely with Health & Safety Department leaders across the organization to promote a strong safety culture, provide expert guidance, and ensure the consistent adoption of best practices and safe work procedures that reflect our commitment to making health and safety a top organizational priority.
Schedule: Monday to Friday, office-based role, during regular business hours. Flexibility is both required and supported.
How you will make contributions that matter:
Serve as the functional lead for the department’s SharePoint site, overseeing content management, access control, and the organization of safety resources.
Act as the program lead for the WSIB Health and Safety Excellence program, while partnering with and supporting Health and Safety Advisors across the Ontario region.
Generate comprehensive safety reports and actively monitor, review, and track safety compliance reports submitted by individual sites
Collaborate closely with peer groups in executing company safety policies by providing training and education to ensure that employees follow Internal and Governmental Safety Standards (OHSA/CSA)
Work in collaboration with the Corporate Health & Safety team as well as other Health & Safety Specialists to foster and promote a culture of employee engagement and continuous learning.
Influence change though comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis and proactively review and support the execution of health and safety programs.
Engage in regular frontline employee discussions to observe and learn from normal work, ensuring that desktop and site audits are grounded in a deep field-level understanding of how work is actually performed and documented to promote positive relations and ensure a healthy and safe working environment.
Support the deployment and integration of human organizational performance (HOP) into written Health and Safety programs.
Participate and support Learning Teams as needed.
Other duites as assigned.
You are best suited for the role if you have the following qualifications:
A degree/diploma in Health and Safety or equivalent work experience. Registered as Canadian registered safety professional (CRST. CRSP)
3-5 years of Health and Safety experience in a medium to large organization.
An ideal candidate has experience in HOP, training delivery, coaching and is motivated to seek and understand problems in a methodical way.
Understanding in operational learning methodologies that include both learning from incidents and learning from normal work.
Ability to evaluate safeguards for error likely scenarios.
Possess a thorough understanding of local and Ontario provincial regulations; CSA standards and ISO 45001
Recognized leadership and autonomy, excellent communication, planning and work organization skills
Team oriented and strong ability to engage people.
Proficiency reporting in SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint with the ability to learn other online systems.
We support and care for our employees and their families by providing:
Competitive salaries
Advantageous corporate agreements
Full range of group insurance benefits
Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution
Purchase option of company stocks
Group RRSP
Health and wellness program in the workplace
Assistance program for employees and their families
Saputo products at a discounted price
Salary: $80,130 to $105,170 per annum. Salary offers will vary commensurate with experience, education, skills and training.
We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family. Saputo welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations up to the point of undue hardship are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
All applications are carefully considered by our Talent Acquisition team.
Artificial Intelligence tools may be used in screening applications.
Artificial Intelligence is not used to assess or select applications.
In Canada, Saputo is a leading cheese manufacturer and fluid milk and cream processor, with a portfolio of well-loved brands such as Dairyland, Armstrong, Neilson, Alexis de Portneuf, and many more. Whether your expertise lies in manufacturing, operations, supply chain management, sales, quality assurance, or in any other function, your role is integral to our success. You will make contributions that matter, all while working alongside colleagues who genuinely care about your success and who will roll up their sleeves to help.
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We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family. Saputo welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations up to the point of undue hardships, are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
