EHS Leader
About The Position
The EHS Leader is responsible for ensuring employee compliance with the company's safety and environmental systems through an auditing program. This role involves EH&S incident investigation and reporting, leading site EH&S training, and monitoring, maintaining, and developing Company Safety and Environmental programs. The position serves as the primary contact for environmental regulatory issues with Toronto Water and MECP, handles community concerns, and is the main contact for the Fire Department, owning the fire protection plan. Responsibilities also include coordinating employee safety and JHSC meetings, managing KPIs related to environmental issues, managing the effluent treatment system with a hands-on approach, and overseeing hazardous waste, waste, and recycling disposal contractors. The role requires staying up-to-date on all Federal, Provincial, and Municipal reporting requirements, including wastewater spill reporting, CHEMTRAX, NPRI, and EASR reporting. Additionally, the EHS Leader manages building security and updates internal communications. This position offers the capability for a hybrid work schedule.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with Safety Standards (OHSA), WHMIS.
- Experience with Municipal, Provincial, and Federal environmental regulation.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience with Environmental and Safety Standards in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of federal, provincial, and municipal safety and environmental regulations.
- Experience conducting safety audits and inspections and developing and implementing corrective action plans.
- Strong training and communication skills, and experience developing and delivering safety training programs.
- Experience investigating incidents and accidents and developing and implementing preventive measures.
- MS Office Intermediate level is mandatory.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred in an applicable technical or business field or equivalent experience in an EH&S role.
- Strong knowledge of municipal sewer by-laws preferred but not necessary.
- Advanced level MS Office skills are an asset.
Responsibilities
- Ensure employee compliance to the company’s safety and environmental systems through the auditing program.
- Conduct EH&S incident investigation and reporting.
- Lead site EH&S training.
- Monitor, maintain, and develop Company Safety programs.
- Serve as the primary contact with Toronto Water and MECP on environmental regulatory issues.
- Act as the primary contact for community concerns.
- Maintain & develop the internal EH&S auditing program.
- Be the main contact for the Fire Department and own the fire protection plan.
- Coordinate employee safety & JHSC meetings.
- Maintain and summarize key KPIs related to environmental issues.
- Monitor, maintain, and develop Company Environmental programs.
- Manage effluent treatment system with a “Hands-On Approach”.
- Manage hazardous waste, waste and recycling disposal contractors.
- Handle waste water spill reporting.
- Manage CHEMTRAX reporting.
- Manage NPRI reporting.
- Manage EASR Reporting.
- Stay up-to-date on all Federal, Provincial and Municipal reporting requirements.
- Manage building security (keys, key fobs, etc).
- Update Nitta TV and physical bulletin boards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
