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A Day in the Life

The Senior EHS Manager for Medtronics commercial operations in Brampton and Milton Ontario provides site and country level leadership and accountability for Environmental Health and Safety programs within a regulated commercial environment. This role partners closely with the Milton product service and repair site; field clinical and sales teams; administrative functions (onsite and virtual); and site and country leadership to ensure regulatory compliance effective risk management and continuous improvement aligned with Medtronics mission and global EHS standards.

As a senior leader and subject matter expert the Senior EHS Manager leads the implementation of EHS strategies drives regulatory compliance and advances employee engagement initiatives to support safe sustainable and efficient operations. The role requires a handson influential leader who can balance operational priorities with EHS excellence while serving as a trusted advisor to the business.

In addition this position plays an active role on the Americas EHS leadership team contributing to enterprise initiatives standardizing best practices and strengthening EHS performance across the region.

At Medtronic we bring bold ideas forward with speed and decisiveness to put patients first in everything we -person exchanges are invaluable to our work. Were working a minimum of 3-4 days a week onsite as part of our commitment to fostering a culture of professional growth and cross-functional collaboration as we work together to engineer the extraordinary.

Responsibilities may include thefollowingand other duties may be assigned.

• Lead the implementation and execution of EHS programs management systems and training to ensure compliance with regulatory and corporate requirements across service and repair field/sales virtual employees and office environments.
• Serve as a visible regional EHS leader and trusted advisor providing risk-based guidance and aligning EHS strategies with business objectives.
• Translate enterprise goals into regional strategies and actionable plans that drive continuous improvement strengthen compliance and advance a proactive EHS culture.
• Lead and influence an EHS professional to ensure alignment accountability and consistent execution of EHS standards.
• Drive standardization and adoption of EHS processes tools and best practices across sites and functions effectively leading change and managing competing priorities.
• Foster a culture of accountability continuous improvement and strong safety leadership across the region.
• Oversee risk identification and mitigation activities including risk assessments hazard analyses PPE evaluations and waste management practices.
• Ensure effective compliance monitoring auditing and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and analyze EHS regulations; represent the company with regulatory agencies and in industry forums.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external regulators demonstrating professionalism and transparency.
• Serve as a leader in incident response and escalation ensuring timely decision making effective root cause analysis and sustainable corrective and preventative actions and manageworkerscompensationprograms.
• Represent the region within enterprise EHS leadership teams contributing to strategy sharing best practices and influencing enterprise initiatives. Developsadministersand implements environmental health and safety programsin accordance withgovernmental requirements (Ontario and Canadian legislation such as Ontario OHSA EPA Ontario CEPA) and Medtronic global standards.
• Manage emergency response procedures and business continuity plans at both sites.
• Effectively manages the EHS annual budget for commercial Canada.
• Provide/promote employee awareness/training onenvironmental health and safety.

Must Haves

• 7 years of progressive EHS experience OR advanced degree and 5 years of experience including multisite or regional responsibility
• Bachelors degree in Environmental Health & Safety Safety Engineering Industrial Hygiene Environmental Science or related field
• Strong working knowledge of Canadian and Ontario environmental and occupational health regulations
• Proven experience leading audits investigations and regulatory interactions
• Ability to travel between sites in Ontario

Nice to Have

• Advanced degree in science engineering or occupational health
• Professional certification (e.g. JHSC CRSP CHSC WHIMS WSIB ionizing radiation safety officer) or progress toward certification
• Knowledge of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems
• Experience with EHS data management systems and structured problemsolving (A3 Lean Six Sigma)
• Strong change leadership communication and people leadership skills
• Experience leading or supporting site audits inspections and corrective action programs.
• Demonstrated success driving behaviorbased safety or employee engagement initiatives.
• Certifications preferred include FirstAidCPR and AED

SALARY RANGE: $142400 - $178000

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONAL CAREER STREAM:Management and supervisory professionals with one or more employees who are focused on tactical operational and some strategic activities within a specified area. Levels within the management career stream typically have six or more direct reports. The majority of time is spent overseeing their area of responsibility managing performance developing talent engagement and inclusion communicating business and operational developments planning prioritizing and / or directing the responsibilities of direct reports. Goal achievement is typically accomplished through performance of direct and / or indirect reports. A key responsibility of roles in this career stream is managing people. which includes: accountability for mentoring developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets conducting performance reviews and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Autonomy:Manages large team which would typically consist of both experienced professionals and managers.
Turns the department strategy into a commercial reality by developing communicating and implementing business plans to achieve business results .
Receives assignments in objective oriented terms; has latitude to reinterpret objectives.

Organizational Impact:Initiates programs or projects based on identified business and / or tactical needs.
Decisions impact projects or operations affect the deadlines resources and funds and the achievement of organizational objectives.
Typically has budget or P&L accountability for a department function or geography.

Innovation and Complexity:Develops new objectives new operating policies products processes and standards in support of the job function strategy.
Problems and issues faced are complex difficult and undefined and require detailed information gathering analysis and investigation to understand the problem.

Communication and Influence:Communicates with internal and external customers and vendors concerning ongoing operations programs or processes.
Influences across functions and businesses while balancing divergent objectives to gain cooperation of other parties .
May interact on issues that have externally divergent objectives.

Leadership and Talent Management:Manages at least one (department function geography typically comprised of other People or Program managers and / or supervisors and experienced professionals.
Recommends strategies goals and plans for a group.
Authorizes hiring firing promotion and reward within own area.

Required Knowledge and Experience:Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in one department.
Typically has mastery level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job function.

PLEASE NOTE:

• We use artificial intelligence (AI) to review resumes of candidates and assess their fit based on the criteria outlined in the job posting. We do not use AI to make any final hiring or interview decisions.

• This posting reflects a current genuine vacancy that we are actively recruiting to fill.

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits resources and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission to alleviate pain restore health and extend life unites a global team of 95000 passionate people.
We are engineers at heart putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab to the factory floor to the conference room every one of us experiments creates builds improves and solves. We have the talent diverse perspectives and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

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