Manager - H&S Systems & Assurance - Toronto, Canada - Kinross Gold Corporation

Description

Start Date ASAP

Contract Full-Time, Permanent

Hybrid Work Environment (3 days in office, 2 days remote with flexible hours)

Dress Code Business Casual

Location Downtown Toronto, Outside of Union Station (TTC & GO accessible)

A Great Place to Work

Who We Are

Kinross is a Canadian-based global senior gold mining company with operations and projects in the United States, Brazil, Mauritania, Chile and Canada. Our focus on delivering value is based on our four core values of Putting People First, Outstanding Corporate Citizenship, High Performance Culture, and Rigorous Financial Discipline. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol:K) and the New York Stock Exchange (symbol:KGC).

Mining responsibly is a priority for Kinross, and we foster a culture that makes responsible mining and operational success inseparable. In 2021, Kinross committed to a greenhouse gas reduction action plan as part of its Climate Change strategy, reached approximately 1 million beneficiaries through its community programs, and recycled 80% of the water used at our sites. We also achieved record high levels of local employment, with 99% of total workforce from within host countries, and advanced inclusion and diversity targets, including instituting a Global Inclusion and Diversity Leadership Council.

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Purpose of Role

To provide technical support and advise to the global organization to ensure the effective implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Company H&S management system and to provide assurance that material H&S risks are well controlled.

Key Responsibilities

• Model company values and set the tone for a positive safety culture.
• Promote and apply professional and ethical standards.
• Support maintenance and improvement of the Company H&S (Safety & Sustainability) audit program including audit procedures, budgeting, planning, training, organization, scheduling, communications, coordination, contracting and continuous improvement.
• Participate in, or lead, the planning and development of Company H&S MS processes and support their global implementation and ongoing maintenance and improvement.
• Support maintenance of the corporate International Cyanide Code Certification program including interfacing with the Cyanide Institute, coordination of audits and pre-audits, tracking of certifications including those within the supply chain and coordination with the corporate supply chain function.
• Support management of the corporate Responsible Gold Mining Principles assurance program, including all aspects of the assurance program including selection of the assurance provider, scheduling and follow up.
• Provide technical support and advice regarding compliance with Company policies, legal requirements, and commitments.
• Support development and implementation of a strategy for communicating H&S MS and assurance activities to key stakeholders throughout the business.
• Support development and implementation of processes for monitoring, measuring, and evaluating H&S performance and to ensure that audit and assurance and follow up work is completed in accordance with agreed plans, is subject to appropriate quality assurance procedures, and is reported to senior management, promptly, accurately, and completely.
• Maintain processes for H&S knowledge collection and sharing lessons learned.
• Facilitate H&S risk management workshops and reviews to ensure quality is high.
• Maintain Company H&S risk register and action tracking processes up to date and accurate.
• Facilitate risk management and audit training for staff and coach and mentor H&S team members on risk management and audit tools and techniques.
• Ensure all required H&S audit training and certification is in place and maintained.
• Provide input to development of contractual requirements and scopes of work for RM&A services and equipment.
• Oversee delivery of human and organisational performance (HOP) and operational learning teams training.
• Lead or participate in major incident investigations.
• Conduct regular analysis of H&S MS & Assurance data to identify trends and make recommendations for improvement.

Professional Parameters

Autonomy - Makes high-level independent judgments. Plans judgements with guidance only in the most complex situations.

Influence/leadership - Develops relationships with senior management, H&S Professionals, and Practitioners to create/influence H&S-related policy, objectives, and strategy and to act as a change agent to support improvement in H&S. Liaises with industry leaders and H&S regulatory agencies.

Complexity - Creatively performs a range of highly complex H&S activities and leads on formulation, implementation, and evaluation of H&S strategy, often working with diverse cultures and changing business environments.

Business and organizational skills - Understands the wider organizational and business environment and the impact on management of H&S as well as the interdependency of H&S and operations. Personal planning and organizational skills to meet work/project deadlines. Engages to support availability of required resources. May manage an H&S group.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in H&S, risk management, business administration or related field or equivalent experience with increasing levels of responsibility.
• Experienced in planning, developing, organizing, and executing wide range of H&S MS & Assurance programs with a proven record of accomplishment of delivery in mining or other high hazard industries.
• Experienced in working collaboratively with all departments across a diverse organization, building strong working relationships and credibility at all levels.

Other

• Professional and discreet, with the ability to judge when information must be treated confidentially.
• Have a hands-on approach and be a team player.
• Prior Kinross experience is considered an asset.
• English essential, French, Arabic, Portuguese, or Spanish languages are an advantage.
• Ability to function within the qualifications outlined in the attached physical demands sheets.

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge - Demonstrates understanding of advanced theoretical H&S concepts and technical knowledge within a systematic and coherent H&S body of knowledge. Recognized as an expert within and outside the organization.
Analyze and evaluate information - Applies cognitive and technical skills to access, analyze and evaluate information to think critically, generate and evaluate complex ideas and inform H&S strategy and practice.

Problem solving - Applies critical thinking, information gathering, problem solving and communication skills and judgment to identify and analyze complex H&S problems to generate innovative, practical evidence-informed solutions while taking into account legislation and industry standards and the organizational environment. Applies cognitive, technical and communication skills to justify and prioritize proposed solutions while taking into account H&S principles as well as organizational, legal, industry and other relevant factors. Applies problem-solving techniques to develop an integrated strategy for H&S and related management issues.

Transmit knowledge skills and ideas - Interprets and tailors' information to communicate knowledge and ideas to workplace, professional and regulatory audiences using appropriate communication strategies and formats. Prepares reports for a range of audiences using appropriate data displays.

Soft skills - Uses communication and engagement skills, including negotiation and conflict management skills, to initiate, promote and support change. Uses mentoring skills to develop H&S capability of site operational and H&S personnel.