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Concord, ON (Les Plats du Chef ULC):

Full time:

Posted Today:

R820342The Senior Site EHS Manager serves as the primary EHS authority for large, complex manufacturing sites, responsible for shaping, leading, and sustaining exceptional environmental, health, and safety performance across multi-line, and in some cases multi-building operations.

This role provides technical expertise, strategic leadership, and operational influence to proactively manage risk, ensure regulatory compliance, and embed EHS deeply into day-to-day decision-making. The Senior Site EHS Manager is a trusted advisor to site leadership, routinely influencing operational strategy, capital projects, and organizational change initiatives to ensure EHS excellence.

This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role, requiring extensive time in production environments to coach leaders, challenge unsafe conditions, and drive a strong, ownership-based EHS culture across a diverse and complex workforce.Duties and Responsibilities:* Site-Level EHS Leadership & Strategy

+ Serve as the senior EHS leader for large and/or highly complex sites, providing overarching direction, expert guidance, and accountability for all EHS matters.

+ Act as a key member of the site leadership team, integrating EHS considerations into business planning, operational execution, and continuous improvement initiatives.

+ Translate corporate and regional EHS strategies into site-specific execution plans aligned with operational risk profiles and business objectives.* Regulatory Compliance & External Interface

+ Drive the implementation of CHG EHS Programs and continuous improvement in EHS

+ Lead all environmental, health,



and safety regulatory compliance activities, ensuring adherence to OSHA, EPA, DOT, and applicable state and local regulations.

+ Serve as the primary site liaison with regulatory agencies, inspectors, and external stakeholders; lead inspections, audits, and follow-up actions.

+ Maintain expert-level knowledge of evolving regulatory requirements and proactively assess their impact on site operations.* Risk Management & Prevention Excellence

+ Lead and validate advanced safety and environmental risk assessments across multiple production processes, buildings, utilities, and support functions.

+ Identify systemic and emerging risks associated with complex operations, equipment, materials, and workflows; develop robust mitigation and control strategies.

+ Drive consistent implementation of safety defenses, exposure controls, and environmental protections aligned with corporate frameworks.Program Ownership & Continuous Improvement* Own and drive site-wide implementation of all corporate and site EHS programs, ensuring consistent application across multiple operational areas.* Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on injury reduction, exposure prevention, environmental impact reduction, and operational resilience.* Evaluate program effectiveness through audits, field observations,



and trending of leading and lagging indicators.* Incident Management & Critical Event Response

+ Lead and oversee serious injury, fatality potential, environmental release, and other high-risk incident investigations, ensuring strong root cause analysis and durable corrective actions.

+ Oversee injury and illness tracking and case management, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and proactive trend identification.

+ Serve as a key member of the site Emergency Response Team, supporting preparedness planning, drills, and incident response activities.* Data, Metrics & Performance Management

+ Drive collection, analysis, and communication of advanced EHS metrics and KPIs using Gensuite (or similar systems).

+ Analyze complex data trends across departments, shifts, and buildings to identify systemic gaps and improvement opportunities.

+ Provide clear, executive-level reporting to site and corporate leadership on EHS performance, risks, and strategic priorities.* Training, Coaching & Culture

+ Deliver and support advanced EHS training and coaching for leaders, supervisors, and employee safety teams.

+ Influence site leadership behaviors to strengthen accountability, visible leadership, and employee engagement in EHS.

+ Foster a culture where EHS ownership is embedded at all levels of the organization* Capital Projects & Change Management

+ Provide EHS leadership and technical input into capital projects, process changes, recent equipment installations, and facility expansions.

+ Ensure Management of Change (MOC) principles are applied to minimize risk during operational and organizational changes.* Collaboration & Corporate Integration

+ Partner closely with Corporate / Reg

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