What are the responsibilities and job description for the Health & Safety Coordinator position at McCain Foods?
Position Title: Health & Safety Coordinator
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 04
Requisition ID: 43446
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.
The Health and Safety Coordinator supports the development and execution of the plant’s health, safety, and security strategy. This role focuses on driving continuous improvement in safety programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering a safe working environment. The Coordinator partners closely with the Health & Safety Manager and site leadership to reduce risk, prevent injuries, and strengthen safety culture through audits, training, and proactive initiatives.
What You’ll Be Doing.
You will be part of the plant’s Health & Safety team, working closely with the Health & Safety Manager, site leadership, and employee safety committees. This role plays a key part in supporting a proactive safety culture and ensuring alignment with regional and corporate safety initiatives.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
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.
Compensation Package: $58,800.00 - $78,500.00 . USD annually Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Location(s): US - United States of America : Idaho : Burley
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Grade: Grade 04
Requisition ID: 43446
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.
The Health and Safety Coordinator supports the development and execution of the plant’s health, safety, and security strategy. This role focuses on driving continuous improvement in safety programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, and fostering a safe working environment. The Coordinator partners closely with the Health & Safety Manager and site leadership to reduce risk, prevent injuries, and strengthen safety culture through audits, training, and proactive initiatives.
What You’ll Be Doing.
- Support day-to-day compliance with federal, state, provincial, municipal, and company health and safety regulations
- Conduct regular Key Elements of Safety (KES) inspections of equipment and facilities
- Partner with safety committees and leadership to promote safe work practices
- Lead and support health and safety audits, ensuring timely closure of findings and corrective actions
- Analyze safety data, incidents, and injury trends to identify improvement opportunities
- Assist supervisors in incident investigations and development of prevention action plans
- Audit contractor safety management programs, ensuring compliance with training, permitting, and insurance requirements
- Maintain OSHA/OH&S programs, including documentation, procedures, and annual reviews
- Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reports to track safety and operational performance
- Deliver health and safety training to employees and management
- Collaborate across teams while managing projects independently with minimal supervision
- Knowledge of occupational health and safety regulations (OSHA/OH&S) and compliance requirements
- Experience supporting health and safety programs in a manufacturing or industrial environment
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret safety data and trends
- Experience conducting audits, inspections, and incident investigations
- Effective communication skills with the ability to train and influence employees at all levels
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail for documentation and reporting
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and safety reporting systems (preferred)
You will be part of the plant’s Health & Safety team, working closely with the Health & Safety Manager, site leadership, and employee safety committees. This role plays a key part in supporting a proactive safety culture and ensuring alignment with regional and corporate safety initiatives.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide opportunities to make an impact that matters.
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.
Compensation Package: $58,800.00 - $78,500.00 . USD annually Bonus eligibility
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit detail available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Location(s): US - United States of America : Idaho : Burley
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.
Salary : $58,800 - $78,500