Environmental Health and Safety Manager

**Role**:
The role will be responsible for ensuring compliance with Sysco’s corporate vision for Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) commitments, goals and approaches by implementing Sysco’s EHS program. Maintain excellent relationships with front line workers and all levels of management to support corporate, regional and site business objectives. Implement the overall EHS process including: environmental, occupational health and safety, workers compensation, fleet safety, contractors, and transportation compliance through a team of National & Regional EHS Directors and Leaders, as well as a EHS Projects & Analytics National Manager.

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Assist with the development, implementation, and maintenance of an EHS management system
- Perform regulatory and best practice-driven hazard/risk assessments and develop action plans to drive improvement
- Develop and present site-specific training programs to stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Conduct internal site audits, develop reports and maintain records
- Support external audits and progression of corrective action compliance
- Assist in the development of standardized safety systems, policies, training, safety campaigns and programs to prevent injury and ensure compliance with Federal, Provincial and municipal laws
- Align with Sysco Corporation to implement the corporate EHS strategy
- Design safety methods to motivate and influence the creation of a world class safety culture
- Implement standardized, actionable safety metrics and communication protocol to leadership teams to drive safety improvement
- Maintain awareness of potential pending and current legislation that may impact safety standards, programs and initiatives
- Actively drives performance and urgently strives to strategically solve problems and follow projects through to completion, integrated and balanced with the big-picture strategy
- Monitor and communicate regulatory changes to the organization, recommending changes to result in compliance and provide technical support when needed
- Ensure accident prevention/abatement through detailed injury and accident reporting, loss analysis & trending and investigation compliance
- Work with Provincial regulatory officials to resolve any compliance or practice violations
- Provide support to customers by ensuring contractor safety, and conducting on-site job hazard assessments
- Complies with Sysco’s Food Safety Policy and procedures to ensure food safety, quality and legality requirements are met.
- Is willing to work safely with mínimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their Supervisor.
- Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present.

Perform other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications/Skills/Job Requirements**:

- 5+ years of EHS program management experience
- Strong knowledge of applicable Environmental and Health and Safety regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of principles and practices of business management including supervision; assigning, evaluating, and modifying work functions and processes of executing programs; content and formatting of reports, and presentations
- Bachelor's Degree is strongly required for this position with major course work in EHS, Risk Management or a closely related field
- Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation.
- The National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO) and other professionally recognized certifications in the safety, risk management related field are highly desirable
- Intermediate proficiency in the use of a variety of PC software including all Microsoft products
- Six sigma methodology certification and practice are highly valued
- Strong _knowledge of applicable Environmental and Health and Safety regulatory requirements.

Knowledge of principles and practices of business management including: supervision; assigning, evaluating, and modifying work functions and processes of executing programs; content and formatting of reports and presentations.

Strong background in EHS with a proven record of results.

Actively drives performance and urgently strives to strategically solve problems and follow projects through to completion, integrated and balanced with the big-picture strategy.

Excellent leadership and team building skills, able to influence decision makers.

Able to coordinate planning and collaborate with other business units in a way that is mutually beneficial.

The ability to drive a strong safety philosophy and implement programs designed to effectively change behavior and prevent injury using rational and research based data driven methods.

Excellent ability to analyze and independently solve a variety of difficult situations and problems using timely decision making.

Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and intera