Consultant, Health & Safety

Consultant, Health & Safety

Build safer workplaces. Shape resilient organizations. Create impact at scale.

At ERM, you'll partner with leading global organizations to elevate occupational health and safety performance, reduce risk, and drive meaningful, lasting change across complex environments. This experienced-level role is ideal for a safety professional who brings strong technical expertise, curiosity, and a desire to grow alongside one of the world's leading sustainability consultancies.

In this role, you won't just support complianceyou'll help organizations build proactive, people-centered safety cultures that protect workers, strengthen operations, and support long-term sustainability goals.

Why This Role Matters?

Health and safety excellence is foundational to resilient, responsible organizations. In this role, you'll play a critical part in helping clients protect people, meet regulatory requirements, and move beyond compliance toward best-in-class EHS performance. Your work will directly support safer operations across industrial, high-tech, pharmaceutical, energy, and chemical environmentslocally and globallywhile advancing ERM's mission to create a more sustainable future.

What Your Impact Is:

• 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 help clients progress beyond regulatory compliance
• Collaborate with ERM's national and global technical experts, contributing to knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement
• Build trusted client relationships by delivering projects on time, on scope, and within budget

What You'll Bring:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Engineering, or a related scientific discipline. Or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of relevant experience supporting regulatory compliance and sustainable EHS programs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly translate technical information
• Experience gathering, analyzing, and interpreting health and safety or industrial hygiene data
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within multidisciplinary teams
• Willingness and ability to travel to client sites across North America
• Driver's License Required: This position requires a valid driver's license and/or the ability to operate a company vehicle due to the nature of job duties, which include frequent travel to various client locations across a large geographical area.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Preferred

• Experience supporting clients in High Tech, Power, Pharmaceutical, or Chemical sector environments
• Current or planned CIH or CSP certification
• Additional certifications such as OHST, SMS, or CHST
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, innovative client environments while consistently delivering high-quality work

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct qualitative and quantitative industrial hygiene and occupational risk assessments
• Support the development and execution of IH sampling plans and field surveys, including data interpretation
• Perform health and safety inspections, audits, and compliance assessments
• Contribute to the design and implementation of health and safety programs across areas including:
• Chemical and electrical safety
• Machine guarding and fire prevention
• Powered industrial vehicles and work at heights
• Emergency preparedness and response
• PPE programs, hazard identification, risk analysis, and Safety Management Systems
• Prepare clear, concise technical reports and client deliverables
• Collaborate as an engaged team member across multiple concurrent project teams
• Develop a working knowledge of ERM's broader consulting services and support cross-selling opportunities

For the Consultant, Health & Safety position, the anticipated annual base pay is $81,600 $103,128 (USD). Actual pay will depend on factors such as education, experience, skills, location, performance, and business needs. In some cases, pay may fall outside this range. 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.

Note: Bonuses, commissions, and other forms of additional compensation are not guaranteed and subject to the sole discretion of ERM and its policies and procedures.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our "boots to boardroom" approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location. ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!

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