Supervisor, Compliance

Why Guelph:
**What we offer**

We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees. Many of our positions offer:

- Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
- Paid personal days;
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements;
- Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100-per-cent employer matching;
- Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
- Employee and Family Assistance Program;
- Parental leave top up program;
- Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
- Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview:
**Key duties and responsibilities**
- Provide visible and positive leadership to staff, developing and nurturing a work environment that is inclusive, respectful and motivating.
- Responsible for the management, supervision and guidance of staff including hiring, training and evaluating performance.
- Responsible for the development, scheduling and updating of multi-year work plans, budgets and related reporting.
- Lead development and oversee departmental environmental compliance and management systems, keeping up to date on changes to legislation and provincial consultations, updates to the Drinking Water Quality Management System, and the management systems of solid waste (ISO 14001-2015) and wastewater (CSA-217-2025).
- Collaborate with the Environmental Services’ management team to conduct internal audits, manage external audits, ministry inspections and review related reporting.
- Maintain positive working relationships with the Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks.
- Lead the formal response process to provincial levels of government related to emerging and changing compliance legislation.
- Lead continuous improvement, including process improvements and role clarification, and champion the development of a continuous improvement culture across the department.
- Lead the development and/or update of emergency and contingency protocols and procedures and oversee the execution of test exercises, identifying opportunities for improvement and documenting all compliance-related decisions.
- Draft and review Council reports, Briefing Notes and Memorandums, as required; present to Council on their role and responsibility as it applies to drinking water system, or other.
- Facilitate ECA amendments and consolidations with Ministries as required for the department.
- Work with corporate partners to deliver compliance and performance objectives, develops effective working relationships with all internal support departments.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.

**Qualifications and requirements**
- Extensive experience in legislative and regulatory compliance related to solid waste, water and/or wastewater, preferably in an operational municipal setting.
- Knowledge of all applicable provincial and federal legislation and regulations pertaining to municipal water, wastewater and solid waste.
- Experience supervising staff or leading work teams, preferably in a unionized environment, with motivational and team building skills.
- Experience developing management systems and maintaining accreditation.
- Excellent communication skills, with strengths in written and oral communications with staff, contractors, external agencies and the general public.
- Applied knowledge and experience leading continuous improvements, including root cause analysis, process improvement, and other improvements. Lean Six Sigma accreditations would be an asset.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and timelines.
- Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook and Teams).
- Knowledge of budget preparation processes and control.

**Hours of work**
35 hours per week Monday to Friday.

**Pay/Salary**
Non-union Grade: 7: $105,560.00- $131,950.00

**How to apply