SHE Specialist

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