Consultant, Health & Safety

Job Overview

At ERM, you’ll partner with global organizations to elevate occupational health and safety performance, reduce risk, and drive meaningful, lasting impact across complex environments. This role is ideal for a safety professional ready to apply deep technical expertise while growing alongside one of the world’s leading sustainability consultancies.

Why This Role Matters? Health and safety excellence is foundational to resilient, responsible organizations. As a Consultant, Health & Safety in our Cleveland office, you’ll help clients protect people, strengthen compliance, and build proactive safety cultures across industrial, high‑tech, pharmaceutical, energy, and chemical environments. Your work will directly support safer operations—locally and globally—while advancing ERM’s mission to create a more sustainable future.

• Deliver high‑quality health and safety compliance support for complex client projects across North America and beyond.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate workplace health and safety risks through rigorous technical analysis.
• Support innovative EHS programs that move clients beyond compliance toward best‑in‑class performance.
• Collaborate with ERM’s national and global technical experts, contributing to knowledge‑sharing and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted client relationships by consistently delivering projects on time, on budget, and to scope.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Engineering, or a related scientific discipline. 3+ years of EHS experience supporting day‑to‑day operations in a warehouse, manufacturing, production, logistics, or other operational environment. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings clearly. Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to multidisciplinary teams. Strong organization skills and ability to track actions, documentation, and follow‑through.

Ability to spend significant time on the floor in an active operations environment.

Driver’s License

Required:

This position requires a valid driver’s license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to frequent travel to various client locations.

Preferred:
Experience supporting warehouse operations, light industrial, new site openings, temporary labor environments and contractor safety programs. Familiarity with ergonomics in repetitive manual tasks, machine guarding, lockout/tagout concepts. OSHA 30 or similar EHS certification/training. Ability to thrive in fast‑paced, innovative client environments while producing high‑quality deliverables. Ability to help develop practical SOPs, checklists, and training materials from the ground up.

• Manage day‑to‑day EHS support for the warehouse operations.
• Conduct routine floor walks, inspections, and task‑based hazard assessments.
• Support development and implementation of site EHS programs and operating procedures covering ergonomics, machine safety, material handling, housekeeping, fire/life safety, emergency preparedness, and contractor safety.
• Partner with operations leaders to identify risks, recommend controls, and track corrective actions to closure.
• Deliver and coordinate EHS training for employees, temporary workers, contractors, and supervisors.
• Support incident reporting, near‑miss review, root cause analysis follow‑up, and lessons‑learned communication.
• Coordinate with Facilities, Security, and site leadership on emergency response readiness, and evacuation planning.
• Monitor waste handling, storage conditions, aisle clearance, and general site housekeeping expectations.
• Maintain required EHS records, inspection logs, training documentation, and risk assessment updates.
• Support management of change when layouts, staffing, shifts, equipment, or workflows change.

For the Consultant, Health & Safety position, the anticipated annual base pay is $80,000–$100,613 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. This role may be eligible for bonus pay (casual and fixed term/flex force employees are not bonus eligible).

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, parental leave, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, AD&D insurance, 401(k) or RRSP/DPSP, and other applicable benefits to eligible employees.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.