Environmental, Health & Safety Manager - Cox Automotive

Cox Automotive Canada; Florida; On-site; USD 92,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation with pay

Paid holidays

Wellness hours

Job summary

Cox Automotive Canada in Florida is seeking a Regional Environmental Health and Safety Manager to lead the region's EHS programs and drive a culture of safety and compliance. You will partner with site leadership to implement safety and environmental practices, manage incident investigations, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to reduce injuries and environmental risk.

The role requires up to 65% travel, collaboration across CAI safety teams, and strong stakeholder engagement to align

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline required; 6+ years of EHS experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 65%.
• Experience in safety program management and incident investigation.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational implementation of EHS programs to build a proactive safety culture.
• Collaborate with CAI Safety Teams on leading and lagging indicators.
• Partner with Recon and Lean Daily Management to reflect Cox Automotive safety culture.
• Establish timelines and close corrective actions from inspections and audits.
• Support standardized environmental practices and regulatory compliance.
• Develop site safety and environmental policies and improvement plans.
• Coordinate training with auction site partners.
• Develop and implement incident response plans and reporting.
• Support Learning Team initiatives with frontline employees.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Requirements gathering

Risk assessments

Data analysis and visualization

Stakeholder management

Travel 65%

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Master's degree in a related field

Tools

SQL

Databases

Data Visualization

Job description

• Candidate must reside in Florida with a significant amount of travel to outside markets on a regular basis.

• Candidate must reside in Florida with a significant amount of travel to outside markets on a regular basis.

Job Title: Regional Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Manager

Job Summary

The role of the Regional EHS Manager is to ensure the successful implementation and practice of our EHS processes and procedures to drive a culture of caring among team members, clients/customers and vendor partners. Work directly with site leadership and employees, office and field-based personnel to drive improved engagement in the assigned region. Lead the development and implementation of sustainable safety and environmental programs across the business. A major focus on the maintenance of safety management systems and the reduction in the frequency and severity of injuries to our people by partnering with functional leaders and staff to analyze problems and successes to optimize future operations.

This role will work with partners across the region to align program support to the overall business objectives and culture we need to enable all team members to work safely and protect the communities where we operate. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships with supporting key stakeholders.

Primary Duties/Key Responsibilities

• Drive the operational implementation of EHS programs through partnership to build a proactive culture of safety, compliance and performance.
• Collaborates across all CAI Safety Teams (One EHS Team Approach) focused on both leading and lagging indicators to ensure proper safety defenses are being evaluated; key member of the incident investigation and improvement process.
• Partner with Recon and Lean Daily Management teams to ensure safety measurements impact and reflect the Cox Automotive safety culture, while driving leading indicator safety programs that establish a restorative approach.
• Work to establish timelines and action closure process on all identified corrective actions that arising from inspections, reviews and recommendations. Ability to remove an audit atmosphere to a department support relationship.
• Support revised standardized environmental practices to ensure consistency with company standards and all provincial and federal regulations.
• Assist in the building of site safety and environmental policies and improvement plans that focus on continuous improvement.
• Works with auction site partners to help in the development and implementation of the training.
• Develop and implement of incident response plan, to include incident and near miss reporting process and to include review, analysis and communication of findings.
• Assist with the Learning Team approach to working directly with employees and understand how work is completed to better protect the workforce.

Required Experience & Specialized Knowledge And Skills

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years' experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience; or 8 years' experience in a related field

Preferred Skills

• Strong interpersonal skills that foster team building and "buy-in" of new initiatives and goals at all levels of the organization
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements and facilitating requirements gathering sessions is required
• Ability to complete Risk Assessments and Safe Work Practices (Standard Work)
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently
• Experience in root cause and corrective action analysis
• Ability to drive programs and improvements across a matrix organization
• Experience with data analysis and visualization and familiarity with databases, data structure, and queries is preferred
• Ability to travel extensively (65%)

Organizational Position

Does this position have direct reports? NO

Reports to: Director/AVP level

USD 92,300.00 - 153,900.00 per year

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $92,300.00 - $153,900.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits

The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.

Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.

EOE, including disability/vets