EHS Process Specialist
Contract On-site | Brampton, ON
Compensation Range
$70K - $80KCompensation will be determined based on the successful candidate's experience, skills, and qualifications, and may also be influenced by internal equity and market conditions.
Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Compliance & Regulations: Ensure adherence to municipal, provincial, and federal EHS regulations. Monitor legislative changes and advise management on required adjustments.
- Ergonomic Program Leadership: Lead ergonomic assessments, track workplace musculoskeletal risks, and provide recommendations to reduce injury potential.
- Cross Functional Activities: Collaborate with process and manufacturing engineers to incorporate safety controls into process design, equipment modifications, and capital projects.
- Hazard Elimination & Reduction: Identify and mitigate engineering-based hazards in machining, casting, assembly, fluid systems, and material handling operations.
- Evaluate and specify engineering controls, machine guarding, ventilation, interlocks, and energy isolation devices to eliminate or reduce exposure at the source.
- Digital Documentation: Contribute to developing, reviewing, and maintaining digital work instructions for safety and environmental procedures. Create standardized workflows for program documentation.
- Program Management: Organize, implement, and maintain EHS programs, policies, and procedures with regular reviews and updates.
- Risk Assessment: Conduct safety risk assessments and hazard analysis. Identify potential hazards and recommend corrective actions.
- Training & Development: Develop and deliver EHS training programs to ensure all employees understand safety procedures and protocols.
- Incident Investigation: Lead incident investigation processes, analyze trends, prepare reports, and provide recommendations to prevent recurrence.
- Inspections & Audits: Conduct regular safety inspections of facilities, equipment, and processes. Ensure timely implementation of corrective actions.
- ISO Management Systems: Develop, implement, and maintain documentation processes supporting ISO management systems.
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration: Work with Sales, HR, Operations, and Facilities to integrate EHS considerations across all organizational activities.
Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Degree or graduate coursework in EHS, industrial hygiene, or process safety is an asset.
- Experience: 3+ years of progressive EHS experience in a manufacturing, heavy industrial, or process engineering environment.
- Demonstrated experience with Process Safety Management (PSM), process hazard analysis, or management of change (MOC) programs.
- Proven track record of leading incident investigations and driving closure of corrective actions at a systemic level.
- Practical familiarity with industrial manufacturing processes — machining, casting, welding, fluid power systems, or related — is strongly preferred.
- Knowledge: Strong understanding of ergonomic risk factors and risk assessment methodologies. Familiarity with ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 standards is an asset.
- Skills: Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication abilities. Proficient in EHS management software and training delivery.
- Attributes: Detail-oriented, proactive, and capable of working independently and collaboratively. Strong commitment to safety culture and environmental responsibility.
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