Health and Safety Manager

**Position Title**:Health and Safety Manager - Timaru

**Position Type**: Temporary - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Timaru

**Requisition ID**: 38968

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**.**

McCain Foods Timaru is seeking an experienced and proactive Health & Safety Lead for a 12-month fixed-term contract. In this pivotal role, you will drive the implementation and ongoing enhancement of our site’s safety management system, ensuring a secure and compliant environment for employees, contractors, and visitors alike. You will collaborate closely with operational teams to deliver hands-on support in risk management, incident reporting, compliance, and safety training. In addition, you will champion a culture of continuous safety improvement by actively engaging with frontline teams, supporting innovative safety initiatives, and ensuring rigorous adherence to relevant health and safety legislation and company policies.

**What you’ll be doing.**
- Coach Key Risk Area (KRA) working groups and provide expert safety guidance; act as the primary escalation point for project issues.
- Coordinate the Central Safety Committee and manage KRA group presentations in line with the H&S Due Diligence Calendar.
- Facilitate and coach process-based risk assessments, ensuring alignment with the annual safety plan.
- Lead investigations of high-potential incidents and oversee event/action management to ensure compliance by line leadership.
- Support the Senior Safety Manager and operational teams in the H&S aspects of McCain’s continuous improvement initiatives.
- Serve as a key liaison for employees in the return-to-work process.

**What you’ll need to be successful.**
- Experience with risk assessments and control implementation
- Knowledge of incident investigation principles
- Understanding of emergency preparedness and response
- Site inspection, monitoring, and audit experience
- Proficient in interpreting H&S audit/inspection data
- Experience developing or updating H&S documentation
- Skilled in coaching and influencing frontline teams on H&S systems
- Experience or willingness to coordinate return-to-work and injury management programs

**About the team**.**

You’ll be joining a small but high-performing and collaborative team that prides itself on delivering results while maintaining a supportive and enjoyable work environment. We work hard, tackle challenges together, and make sure to have fun along the way.

**About McCain**.**

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**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.

**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.

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**Job Family**:Manufacturing
**Division**:ANZ
**Department**:Timaru Sr Health and Safety
**Location(s)**: NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Timaru

**Company**:McCain Foods (NZ) Limited