Environ & Safety Lead (Chilliwack)

Environ & Safety Lead (Chilliwack)

24 Oct
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Owens Corning
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Chilliwack

24 Oct

Owens Corning

Chilliwack

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Function: Envir, Health and Safety

Audience: Experienced Professional

Work Arrangement: On Site

Requisition ID: 70831

Job Band: 5B

HR Rep: Chase Reed

Build More Than Doors. Build Your Future.

At Owens Corning Doors - Yarrow , we're proud to be a leading manufacturer in the residential wholesale door industry, delivering quality products that help shape homes across North America.

We are seeking an Environmental, Health and Safety Lead (Manager) to join our Safety Department and Leadership Team at our high-volume Interior Door Manufacturing Facility in beautiful Chilliwack (Yarrow), BC.

Safety is at the core of everything we do. We are committed to providing a secure, respectful workplace where employees are empowered with the training, tools, and support they need to perform at their best. We believe that quality products start with a strong safety culture and a team that looks out for one another.

Why Chilliwack (Yarrow)?

Nestled between mountains, rivers, and farmland, Chilliwack offers exceptional quality of life -outdoor recreation, reasonable living costs compared to major metros, and easy access to Greater Vancouver. It’s the ideal place to grow your career without sacrificing lifestyle.

Role Overview & Key Responsibilities:

The facility EHS Lead (Manager) is responsible for building a site culture with an unconditional stance on safety and environmental compliance. The EHS Lead will manage all aspects of the development, implementation, and evaluation of SIF and critical safety programs along with other health and Environmental processes/programs/procedures to achieve and maintain a zero-injury environment. Key objectives will include identifying, eliminating,



and controlling hazardous conditions that may lead to injury and/or property damage. Use and application of safety standards, best practices, and analytical techniques along with behavior-based safety programs is essential. The successful candidate will provide leadership, guidance, and apply technical abilities to engage employees at all levels of the organization to develop and sustain a world-class safety and environmental program.

The EHS Lead is a critical member of the steering team, providing guidance and coaching in the areas of safety and environmental stewardship to all site employees. The EHS Lead interfaces across the business to provide solutions to safety and environmental compliance challenges as well as advances and innovation in hazard Identification. The position acts as the subject matter expert at the assigned facility and is accountable for building capability to ensure a sitewide EHS culture.

- Risk prevention in all areas identifying and documenting potential hazardous, including but not limited to materials exposure, accidents, near-miss, fires, other unsafe conditions, environmental spills and releases or other non-compliance. Use appropriate protocols and actions to address. Notify appropriate parties, and internal stakeholders for purpose of corrective action, preventive controls, and training as needed.




- Proactively identify potential hazards associated with all manufacturing processes, equipment, and materials by conducting formal risk assessments. Develop and implement control measures to mitigate identified risks and ensure a safe working environment. Regularly review and update risk assessments to reflect changes in operations and maintain compliance with evolving standards.
- Conduct timely and thorough EHS incident investigations including matters of workers’ compensation. Analyze all accidents/incidents to ensure root cause identification and corrective action, notify appropriate parties, document and submit report of findings.
- Provide support to all facility team members with respect to EHS awareness, leading emergency training, evacuation planning, emergency response, policy interpretation, safety audits, environmental inspections, and how to locate resources, etc. Ensure 100% completion of training plan and certified competence of all employees trained.
- Develop and update our Critical Safety Foundations and SIF Programs, and support development of other key safety and EHS programs in collaboration with site leadership and Doors Business Unit EHS.
- Develop innovative solutions and drive sustainability goals through partnership and influence of key stakeholders and team members at the site.
- Responsible for document maintenance and retention for EHS and Safety training requirements.
- Responsible for environmental reporting and compliance in accordance with federal, state and local ordinance requirements.
- Champion the Safety Committee and act as a resource to sub committees.
- Develop, implement and/or monitor EHS action plans and programs to ensure a high level of safet

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