## Senior EHS ManagerApply: 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 explicit, 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, new 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 / Regional EHS teams on enterprise initiatives, audits, and strategic improvement programs. + Share best practices across sites and support elevated EHS performance beyond the assigned location when needed.
* May support/over

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