Senior HSE Specialist

Graymont Limited; Brossard; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in lime and limestone production seeks a Senior HSE Specialist for its Eastern Canada operations. This role involves managing health, safety, and environmental programs, ensuring compliance with regulations, and promoting a positive safety culture. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years' experience in the industry, with strong skills in communication, project management, and problem-solving.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and healthcare benefits

Financial support for ongoing learning and development

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience managing HSE requirements for industrial operations.
• Experience interacting with regulatory agencies (CNESST, WCB) preferred.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Assist plant managers in coordinating health, safety, and environmental programs.
• Lead environmental permit requirements and support HSE incident investigations.
• Collaborate effectively on continuous improvement projects to enhance HSE functions.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Analytical Skills

Project Management

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Science/Engineering

Health, Safety, or Environmental emphasis preferred

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Reporting to theCorporate Affairs & Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, Eastern Region, the Senior HSE Specialist will be a HSE business partner to Graymont’s operating plants, terminals and regional offices.

ABOUT GRAYMONT

Graymont is a global leader in the production and marketing of lime and limestone products. We have operations across North America and in the Asia Pacific region. Graymont’s growing business focuses on technology and application innovation. To achieve this, Graymont supports the training and development of its employees and provides them with opportunities to explore their careers across Graymont’s commercial, technological, engineering, environmental, human resources and finance functions, among others. Employees at Graymont receive competitive compensation and health care benefits, and may also qualify for financial support for ongoing learning and development to help them reach their full potential.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior HSE Specialist will assist the plant managers and other plant leaders in coordinating, implementing and maintaining the health, safety and environmental programs primarily for the Eastern Canada (ECAN). Furthermore, this individual will support the company HSE activities by achieving corporate objectives, driving overall ECAN improvement of plant safety culture and promote OneGraymont strategic approach :

• Manage primarily the environment and as well supporting health and safety while assuring sustainability of Graymont’s internal HSE standards.
• Lead or assist with environmental permit requirements, including support of timely completion of mandatory reports.
• Provide training and / or support for compliance and internal standard requirements, as needed.
• Support and / or facilitate HSE incident investigations using root cause analysis methodologies to prevent reoccurrence.
• Participate in company internal health, safety and environmental audits.
• Support and influence the local Health, Safety and Environmental committees to foster HSE growth.
• Provide oversight and coordinate ECAN compliance support activities, including reporting to ensure all reports are completed accurately and on time to provincial and federal regulatory agencies.
• Ensure alignment within the plants to promote growth of the site level HSE personnel, staff and front line employees while promoting the OneGraymont culture..
• Be a facilitator in order to create alignment between corporate objectives and workforce engagements to ensure regulatory compliance and foster continual improvement of Graymont’s Safety and Environmental standards while further supporting further advancement of the plant behavioural safety culture.
• Collaborate effectively with operations and other support functions in North America on continuous improvement projects to build and maintain a world-class HSE function.
• Support and advance activities aligned with Graymont’s efforts to decarbonize.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Science / Engineering related bachelor’s degree required, with a degree in Health, Safety or Environmental emphasis preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience managing environmental, health and safety requirements for an industrial operation.
• Experiencing interacting with regulatory agencies, CNESST and WCB preferred.
• Project management experience and qualifications preferred.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to influence others in decision making.
• Ability to work and solve problems independently.
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, prioritize and organize.
• Successful in both team and individual-based work environments.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work with limited direction and to function as a team member.
• Proficient in basic computer software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Relational Databases).