Regional Environmental Health and Safety Manager at The Home Depot in Toronto, ON  M3C 4H9

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Position Description:

The Regional Environmental Health and Safety Manager (REHSM) is responsible for leading, managing and overseeing Environmental Health and Safety for a specified region.  This includes promoting a safe and healthy work environment, ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations and laws, and providing training and guidance to regional, district and store leaders.

The REHSM must be able to effectively communicate priorities, and strategy across a region to all levels of leadership to drive consistency of execution. The REHSM is responsible for collaboration across multiple functions in the development and execution of strategic initiatives. These include but are not limited to store operations, field operations, merchandising, legal, IT, human resources.  The REHSM is responsible for developing and supporting Environmental Health and Safety strategy both at a district and regional level. They are responsible for understanding market conditions and trends across the region they support, developing short term and long-term action plans to reduce environmental and safety risks.  Collaboration, effective communication, balancing stakeholders, business insights, technical and analytical skills are critical to the success of the REHSM.    leadership

Position Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with regional and district leaders to discuss identified trends, successes, and opportunities. 
• Safety Takes Everyone Partnership (STEP) and analyze Health and Safety performance and develop solutions that support outlier district/stores to drive incident reduction
• Lead and support Store Emergency Response planning and actions; Serious Incident Review Board- SIRB
• Develop and implement EHS policies and procedures for the division/region as it relates to incident reduction strategies.
• Conduct regular safety performance reviews/walks of stores to ensure compliance with EHS regulations and support EHS programs
• Work with the Operations   Health and Safety Manager and Learning team to prioritize Health and Safety training development. 
• Investigate serious incidents, and near-misses to identify root causes and support the develop corrective actions to prevent recurrence
• Support 3rd party vendor MSA/SOWs; including but not limited to 3rd party claims administrators, emergency alerts
• Work as a resource to regional and district operational leaders on EHS, Workers Compensation and Claims Management issues. Be the liaison with government and regulatory agencies overseeing Environment, Occupational Health and Safety, Workers Compensation, Labour, Fire and life protection and environment and dangerous goods
• Develop, test and rollout behavioural and engineering solutions using an agile approach  
• Merchandising support (DAF, Fixtures, POG, PLR, Seasonal Resets)

Competencies Required:

• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Engagement
• Action Oriented
• Resourcefulness
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Business Insight
• Balances Stakeholders
• Ensures Accountability

Candidate Qualifications

• Must fulfill minimum time-in-position (2 year)  
•  Experience in an Environmental or Occupational Health and Safety role
• Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation with 5+ years of experience in safety management and Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation, equivalent and the ability to obtain a designation within 2 years
• Experience in multi-unit support as a Safety Professional
• Knowledge of federal and provincial Workers Compensation, Health & Safety laws, and regulations
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including ability to constructively articulate viewpoint to Regional and District leaders
• Effectively prioritize multiple demands; adjust to change quickly and work constructively under stress
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint).
• Highly developed interpersonal skills for dealing with sensitive and controversial issues
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
• Personal qualities required to build and maintain effective collaborative working relationships with all leadership levels and external bodies
• Self-starter, independent, efficient, organized, goal oriented and able to produce high quality work.

In our commitment to efficiency, consistency, and a fair hiring experience for all candidates, The Home Depot Canada uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to assist with the screening and assessment of applicants for this position. This technology is used to quickly and consistently identify candidates whose skills and experience are the strongest match for the role. Our process is designed to ensure human oversight is maintained throughout the selection process.