Associate Manager, Safety Health and Environmental (SHE)

Energy Vault; Brantford; On-site; CAD 96,000 - 127,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the manufacturing sector seeks an SHE Associate Manager for their Brantford site. This role supports safety, health, and environmental management practices while ensuring compliance with legal and company standards. The successful candidate will provide leadership and technical expertise, engage team members, and manage critical project activities within a high-hazard environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits program

Profit sharing and incentive plans

Qualifications

• 5 years of SHE leadership experience in a global manufacturing setting.
• Experience with high-hazard chemical process safety management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Supports SHE compliance assurance processes and compliance with regulatory standards.
• Champions incident investigations and ensures corrective actions are deployed.
• Collaborates with stakeholders for effective closure of SHE-related actions.

Skills

SHE leadership

Risk reduction opportunities

Data interpretation

Communication skills

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

The Company's Total Rewards package is at or above industry levels. The expected base salary range for this position is between 96,650.00 CAD - 126,886.00 CAD. Job related skills, experience, education, and location will be considered in setting actual starting base salary. In addition to your base salary and depending on job level, eligibility, and performance, a total package may include profit sharing, a short-term incentive and/or long-term incentives. As a family company, benefits are a key piece of our Total Rewards package as well and we’re proud to provide a comprehensive, competitive, and differentiated benefits program that our people and their families value.

Summary:

The SHE Associate Manager supports deployment of SC Johnson’s Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) management practices for multiple manufacturing sites in the Brantford, ON region to ensure compliance with local legal requirements and SCJ global standards. The role will work closely with the Director, North America Regional SHE to align SC Johnson’s overall safety, health and environmental strategies with site-level targets and objectives. This role also provides technical and strategic leadership to ensure site-specific processes associated with the management of high-hazard chemical processes are effectively deployed and maintained. Success depends on technical knowledge and developing “champions” within the site to drive day-to-day SHE ownership.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports SHE compliance assurance processes, such as compliance calendars and leader standard work, to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations, and company standards.
• Supports compliance with regulatory standards including metric generation, data interpretation, and process safety risk reduction opportunities.
• Deploys internal audit processes, including SHE-related GEMBA and behavior observations, to proactively identify potential non-conformances.
• Partners with site stakeholders to ensure timely, effective closure of SHE-related corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborates with engineering and maintenance teams to ensure inspections, testing, and preventive maintenance of SHE-critical equipment are defined and documented.
• Provides expertise for external regulatory inspections related to safety, health, environmental, and fire protection matters.
• Champions incident investigations and ensures effective deployment of corrective actions.
• Maintains SHE training processes, ensuring required training is defined, comprehensive, and completed.
• Serves as SHE representative for Management of Change reviews to evaluate hazards and impacts.
• Verifies data accuracy in SHE databases and analyzes data to identify trends contributing to incidents and non-conformances.
• Drives injury reduction activities and promotes safety culture.
• Supports employee-driven safety and environmental teams and facilitates technical support for their activities.
• Partners with HR and medical teams for return-to-work programs.
• Manages onsite project activities in compliance with high-hazard standards.
• Provides input on SHE goals and budgets at the site level.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field.
• At least 5 years of SHE leadership experience in a global manufacturing setting.

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Advanced degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related discipline.
• Experience with high-hazard chemical process safety management (PSM), such as OSHA PSM or European Seveso Directive.
• Experience in engaging and empowering non-SHE program champions.
• Certifications like CSP, CRSP, CIH, CFPS, CHMM, or equivalent.
• Leadership experience managing teams.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Project management skills for handling multiple projects effectively.

Job Requirements:

• Full-time office hours with occasional nights/weekends.
• Up to 5% domestic travel.
• Approximately 60% office work and 40% manufacturing environment work.
• Not eligible for remote work or relocation.

Other duties may be assigned as needed. This job does not constitute a contract of employment and remains at-will.

Inclusion & Diversity

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SC Johnson is committed to accessibility and will provide accommodations for persons with disabilities in our recruitment process.