Senior EHS Manager - Commercial Canada

Medtronic; Brampton; On-site; CAD 142,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic Canada seeks an Senior EHS Manager to lead environmental, health, and safety programs across Brampton and Milton. You will partner with field, sales, and service teams to ensure regulatory compliance and continuous improvement, balancing operational priorities with EHS excellence.

The role demands a hands-on, influential leader who can engage stakeholders and guide risk-based decisions while fostering a proactive EHS culture across the region.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive EHS experience with Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of managerial experience
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years or relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, or related field
• Strong working knowledge of Canadian and Ontario environmental and occupational health regulations
• Proven experience leading audits, investigations, and regulatory interactions
• Ability to travel between sites in Ontario

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and execution of EHS programs, management systems, and training to ensure regulatory and corporate requirements across service and repair, field/sales, virtual employees, and office environments.
• Serve as a visible regional EHS leader and trusted advisor, providing risk-based guidance and aligning EHS strategies with business objectives.
• Translate enterprise goals into regional strategies and actionable plans that drive continuous improvement, strengthen compliance, and advance a proactive EHS culture.
• Lead and influence an EHS professional, to ensure alignment, accountability, and consistent execution of EHS standards.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and strong safety leadership across the region.
• Represent the region within enterprise EHS leadership teams, contributing to strategy, sharing best practices, and influencing enterprise initiatives.

Education

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

Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years or managerial experience

7+ years of progressive EHS experience with Bachelor's degree and 5+ years managerial experience

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life

The Senior EHS Manager for Medtronic’s commercial operations in Brampton and Milton, Ontario, provides site and country level leadership and accountability for Environmental, Health, and Safety programs within a regulated commercial environment. This role partners closely with the Milton product service and repair site; field, clinical, and sales teams; administrative functions (on‑site and virtual); and site and country leadership to ensure regulatory compliance, effective risk management, and continuous improvement aligned with Medtronic’s mission and global EHS standards.

As a senior leader and subject matter expert, the Senior EHS Manager leads the implementation of EHS strategies, drives regulatory compliance, and advances employee engagement initiatives to support safe, sustainable, and efficient operations. The role requires a hands‑on, influential leader who can balance operational priorities with EHS excellence while serving as a trusted advisor to the business.

In addition, this position plays an active role on the Americas EHS leadership team, contributing to enterprise initiatives, standardizing best practices, and strengthening EHS performance across the region.

At Medtronic, we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we do. In-person exchanges are invaluable to our work. We’re working a minimum of 3-4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities may include the following, and other duties may be assigned.

• Lead the implementation and execution of EHS programs, management systems, and training to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements across service and repair, field/sales, virtual employees, and office environments.
• Serve as a visible regional EHS leader and trusted advisor, providing risk‑based guidance and aligning EHS strategies with business objectives.
• Translate enterprise goals into regional strategies and actionable plans that drive continuous improvement, strengthen compliance, and advance a proactive EHS culture.
• Lead and influence an EHS professional, to ensure alignment, accountability, and consistent execution of EHS standards.
• Drive standardization and adoption of EHS processes, tools, and best practices across sites and functions, effectively leading change and managing competing priorities.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and strong safety leadership across the region.
• Oversee risk identification and mitigation activities, including risk assessments, hazard analyses, PPE evaluations, and waste management practices.
• Ensure effective compliance monitoring, auditing, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and analyze EHS regulations; represent the company with regulatory agencies and in industry forums.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external regulators, demonstrating professionalism and transparency.
• Serve as a leader in incident response and escalation, ensuring timely decision making, effective root cause analysis and sustainable corrective and preventative actions, and manage workers' compensation programs.
• Represent the region within enterprise EHS leadership teams, contributing to strategy, sharing best practices, and influencing enterprise initiatives. Develops, administers and implements environmental, health, and safety programs in accordance with governmental requirements (Ontario and Canadian legislation, such as Ontario OHSA, EPA Ontario, CEPA) and Medtronic global standards.
• Manage emergency response procedures and business continuity plans at both sites.
• Effectively manages the EHS annual budget for commercial Canada.
• Provide/promote employee awareness/training on environmental, health, and safety.

Must Haves

• 7+ years of progressive EHS experience with Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of managerial experience, including multi‑site or regional responsibility
• Advanced degree with a minimum of 5 years or relevant experience with 5+ years of managerial experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Health & Safety, Safety Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, or related field
• Strong working knowledge of Canadian and Ontario environmental and occupational health regulations
• Proven experience leading audits, investigations, and regulatory interactions
• Ability to travel between sites in Ontario

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree in science, engineering, or occupational health
• Professional certification (e.g., JHSC, CRSP, CHSC, WHIMS, WSIB, ionizing radiation safety officer) or progress toward certification
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems
• Experience with EHS data management systems and structured problem‑solving (A3, Lean, Six Sigma)
• Strong change leadership, communication, and people leadership skills
• Experience leading or supporting site audits, inspections, and corrective action programs.
• Demonstrated success driving behavior‑based safety or employee engagement initiatives.
• Certifications preferred include First Aid, CPR and AED

SALARY RANGE: $142,400 - $178,000

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM:

Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical, operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility, managing performance, developing talent, engagement and inclusion, communicating business and operational developments, planning, prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:

Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.

Turns the department strategy into a commercial reality by developing, communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results .

Organizational Impact:

Initiates programs or projects based on identified business and / or tactical needs.

Innovation and Complexity:

Develops new objectives, new operating policies, products, processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.

Problems and issues faced are complex, difficult and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Communication and Influence:

Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors concerning ongoing operations, programs or processes.

Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties .

May interact on issues that have externally divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management:

Manages at least one (department, function, geography typically comprised of other People or Program managers and / or supervisors and experienced professionals.

Recommends strategies, goals and plans for a group.

Authorizes hiring, firing, promotion and reward within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.

Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

PLEASE NOTE:

• We use artificial intelligence (AI) to review resumes of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.
• This posting reflects a current, genuine vacancy that we are actively recruiting to fill.

Physical Job Requirements

• The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer and communicate with peers and co-workers.

Medtronic Canada strives through our vision to build a culture of inclusiveness through our commitment to employment equity and diversity. Discrimination is prohibited on any grounds protected under Canadian Human Rights legislation. Employment applications are encouraged from all members of our community. Upon request, candidates with disabilities will be accommodated during the recruitment process.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

This position is eligible for a short‑term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).