Senior Specialist, EHS

Senior Specialist, EHS

Join Jubilant Hollister Stier as a Senior EHS Specialist and play a key role in strengthening our EHS culture. We are looking for a proactive and motivated professional who thrives in a dynamic environment and is committed to promoting safe, compliant, and continuously improving operations.

Role Overview:

In this role, you will play a key role in developing, implementing, and continuously improving the site’s EHS programs. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and other site functions, you will help drive a strong safety culture and ensure a safe, compliant, and prevention-focused workplace.

The Senior EHS Specialist acts as a trusted EHS advisor and subject matter expert to operational teams, ensuring alignment with applicable federal, provincial, and municipal regulatory requirements and Jubilant’s EHS standards and programs.

EHS Leadership and Culture

• Promote a proactive health and safety culture focused on prevention, employee engagement, and accountability at all levels of the organization.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve EHS programs, procedures, and tools designed to prevent workplace injuries, occupational illnesses, and environmental incidents.
• Advise managers and employees on EHS matters and support the integration of health and safety requirements into day-to-day operations.
• Support and facilitate site EHS committees and initiatives.
• Maintain effective mechanisms that enable employees to raise EHS concerns, identify risks, and propose improvement opportunities.

Compliance and Risk Management

• Ensure site compliance with applicable occupational health and safety and environmental regulatory requirements.
• Conduct inspections, audits, and risk assessments to identify hazards and compliance gaps and ensure appropriate corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
• Lead or support investigations following incidents, accidents, and near misses, including root cause analysis, definition of corrective actions, and follow-up through closure.
• Perform trend analyses and monitor EHS performance indicators to identify emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Maintain documentation, records, permits, and other required information to demonstrate regulatory and internal compliance.

Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health

• Develop and support industrial hygiene and occupational health programs, including occupational exposure risk assessments.
• Coordinate, as required, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, exposure monitoring, and medical surveillance programs.
• Ensure appropriate engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment are defined and implemented.
• Support risk assessments associated with new products, chemicals, processes, and equipment.

Training and Awareness

• Develop, coordinate, and deliver required EHS training for employees and managers.
• Monitor training requirements and ensure that appropriate competencies are maintained for activities involving EHS risks.
• Develop awareness initiatives to strengthen safe behaviors and employee engagement.

Environmental Management and Sustainability

• Oversee programs related to the management of chemicals and hazardous waste, including storage, documentation, and transportation.
• Support compliance with environmental requirements applicable to the site, including associated permits and regulatory obligations.
• Monitor site sustainability initiatives and performance indicators and contribute to periodic corporate reporting.
• Promote and support initiatives aimed at improving environmental performance and the sustainability of site operations.

Projects, Change Management, and Operational Safety

• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, and…