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Senior Manager, Health & Safety
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11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
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Application Deadline:
8 October 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Our client is not looking for another consultant. They are looking for the person who defines what the organization stands for.
This is a founding-level role for someone who has built their career around a singular conviction: that workplace safety saves lives and that the organizations who take it seriously operate better in every dimension. If you are that person a practitioner a thought leader an educator and an advocate this is the role built for you.
In this role you will be the intellectual and professional anchor of the consulting and training practices. You will set the standard for how our client shows up in the field in the boardroom and in the broader occupational health and safety community across Canada.
Key Responsibilities
1. Shape the Firms Point of View
4. Drive Business Growth
Qualifications and Experience
You are a senior occupational health and safety professional who has outgrown purely technical roles and is ready to lead not just deliver. You bring:
Preferred Background
Why Join Our Client
This is an opportunity to join a growing Canadian OHS training and consulting firm at an exciting stage of its evolution. The Senior Manager Health & Safety will play a meaningful role in expanding the consulting capability deepening customer partnerships and helping build a more integrated approach to workplace safety compliance and training across Canada.
This is a founding-level role for someone who has built their career around a singular conviction: that workplace safety saves lives and that the organizations who take it seriously operate better in every dimension. If you are that person a practitioner a thought leader an educator and an advocate this is the role built for you.
In this role you will be the intellectual and professional anchor of the consulting and training practices. You will set the standard for how our client shows up in the field in the boardroom and in the broader occupational health and safety community across Canada.
Key Responsibilities
1. Shape the Firms Point of View
- Own and evolve our clients intellectual position on workplace health and safety what they believe what they advocate for and where they are taking customers.
- Monitor legislative regulatory and industry shifts and translate them into clear firm positions updated programs and proactive customer guidance.
- Identify the emerging issues in H&S before they become headlines and make sure our client is already the voice in the room.
- Serve as the senior-most technical authority on all consulting engagements audits program development incident investigations compliance reviews and strategic safety advisory engagements.
- Set the standard for how all consulting work is scoped delivered and quality-assured.
- Lead complex high-stakes customer engagements directly particularly those involving regulatory scrutiny Ministry of Labour matters WSIB or enterprise-level safety transformation.
- Build and mentor a team of consultants and trainers establishing a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Serve as the senior curriculum architect ensuring all training programs are technically accurate legislatively current pedagogically effective and procedurally consistent.
- Personally deliver keynote and flagship training programs to customers and industry audiences.
- Oversee quality assurance for all instructors including evaluations performance conversations and development plans.
- Identify and develop new training offerings that extend our clients reach into new sectors and customer needs.
4. Drive Business Growth
- Partner with leadership on business development lending credibility to proposals leading discovery conversations with senior customer stakeholders and supporting account expansion.
- Develop scalable premium consulting and training offerings that strengthen our clients competitive positioning.
- Build the kind of long-term customer relationships where our client is the first call not one of several vendors.
Qualifications and Experience
You are a senior occupational health and safety professional who has outgrown purely technical roles and is ready to lead not just deliver. You bring:
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Preferred Background
- Experience supporting customers in construction industrial transportation utilities or other higher-risk sectors.
- Experienced and competent workplace trainer capable of delivering engaging health and safety programs to diverse audiences.
- Familiarity with safety management systems COR-related requirements contractor safety programs and field-based compliance expectations.
- Comfort working in both strategic advisory settings and practical on-site environments.
- Proven ability to lead mentor and coordinate a team of health and safety professionals consultants and instructors.
- Experience contributing to business growth through relationship management proposal support or account development is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing and updating occupational health and safety programs to maintain regulatory compliance.
- Experience developing training materials consulting deliverables policies procedures or compliance documentation aligned with legislative and industry standards.
- Experience supporting the development of compliant workplace training programs or eLearning content is an asset.
- Be a self-starter that takes initiative identifies opportunities and acts without supervision.
- Builds trusted customer relationships and strengthens the organizations credibility as a consulting partner.
- Delivers practical actionable and well-structured consultation deliverables.
- Helps develop consistent service offerings that support growth and standardize operational procedures.
- Manages and develops internal staff trainers and the consultation team.
- Ensures continued compliance and standardization of all training and consultation programs.
Why Join Our Client
This is an opportunity to join a growing Canadian OHS training and consulting firm at an exciting stage of its evolution. The Senior Manager Health & Safety will play a meaningful role in expanding the consulting capability deepening customer partnerships and helping build a more integrated approach to workplace safety compliance and training across Canada.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
About Company
Change Connect helps mid-market companies in Toronto and the GTA build the strategy, team, process, and technology to make sales predictable and scalable.
