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Regional Health & Safety, Risk Manager – Western Canada

Surrey, BC Full-time $ -$ /year

Who We Are

Emterra Group is a dynamic, growth-oriented, and safety-focused group of companies providing collection and processing services for recycling, organics, and waste across Canada. Our work helps keep communities clean, supports waste diversion, and contributes to the circular economy. We are proud of the work we do and the people who make it possible. We are looking for a practical, people-focused safety leader who believes safety is built through trust, visible leadership, strong relationships, and a shared commitment to helping every employee go home safe every day.

Job Summary

Reporting directly to the Director, Health & Safety/Risk, the Regional Health & Safety, Risk Manager – British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba provides regional leadership for health, safety, risk, prevention, claims, and field execution across Emterra’s operations in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. This role leads a team of three Safety Specialists and is accountable for ensuring consistent safety standards, visible leadership, practical risk reduction, and strong operational support across multiple sites. The successful candidate will be a hands‑on leader who builds trust through active site presence, coaches leaders and employees in real time, and ensures safety expectations are translated into day‑to‑day operating routines. Frequent travel to operational sites is required, including approximately 20% travel within the Prairies.

Leadership Opportunity

This is a regional, field‑focused leadership role requiring strong people leadership, operational credibility, and disciplined follow‑through. The Regional Health & Safety,



Risk Manager will be expected to spend meaningful time at sites, in yards, on routes, and with front‑line leaders to understand how work is actually performed and where risk is created. Success in this role will come from leading a team of health and safety specialists in the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the Health & Safety Management System (HSMS), ensuring compliance with provincial regulatory requirements while driving consistent standards, audit readiness, and operational excellence across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

What You Will Do

- Lead the regional health, safety, risk, and prevention program across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, with a strong focus on visible leadership, site‑level execution, operational risk, and practical field support.
- Provide direct leadership, coaching, prioritization, and performance support to three Safety Specialists reporting to this role, including clear regional priorities, site visit plans, development goals, and accountability for follow‑up.
- Maintain an active site presence through frequent site visits, yard walks, route observations, ride‑alongs, field‑level audits, start‑of‑shift observations, toolbox talks, and supervisor coaching to assess risk and reinforce safe work practices.
- Partner with regional operations leaders, site managers, supervisors,



dispatch, maintenance, and support teams to identify and reduce risks related to collections, processing, fleet, traffic and pedestrian exposure, equipment, weather, public interactions, contractor activity, and site‑specific hazards.
- Strengthen collections‑specific safety routines, including pre‑trip and post‑trip inspections, circle checks, route hazard reporting, safe backing practices, helper positioning, manual material handling, distracted driving prevention, defensive driving, and incident escalation.
- Coach front‑line supervisors on how to conduct effective safety conversations, complete meaningful observations, close corrective actions, reinforce expectations, and hold employees respectfully accountable for protected work practices.
- Investigate and trend injuries, near misses, motor vehicle incidents, property damage, customer or public safety events, route hazards, equipment concerns, and repeat‑risk behaviours.
- Lead serious incident response, root cause analysis, claims management, return‑to‑work coordination, regulatory interactions, and corrective action follow‑up across British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
- Use route observations, telematics or camera insights where available, claims data, collision trends, inspection results, employee feedback, customer concerns, and supervisor observations to build targeted risk reduction plans.
- Support onboarding, refresher training, driver/helper safety coaching, return‑to‑work planning, contractor or temporary worker orientation where applicable, and collections‑specific safety campaigns.
- Ensure compliance with applicable occupational health and safety, work

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