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About the Role

An established mechanical contractor is seeking an experienced Safety Manager to lead its COR-certified health and safety program across a diverse portfolio of construction projects. This role involves setting expectations, strengthening safety systems, guiding project leadership, managing organizational risk, and ensuring consistent execution across active construction sites.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ongoing management, evaluation, and improvement of the company's COR-certified health and safety program
• Establish consistent safety expectations across projects, supervisors, employees, and subcontractors
• Partner with project and site leadership to identify operational risks and implement effective hazard controls
• Oversee construction-site inspections, audits, corrective actions, and compliance follow-up
• Ensure required health and safety boards, plans, procedures, and documentation are established for new projects
• Lead or oversee investigations involving incidents, injuries, property damage, and near-misses
• Identify root causes, establish corrective actions, and communicate lessons learned across the organization
• Direct worker, supervisor, and subcontractor safety orientation, training, coaching, and competency initiatives
• Lead the development and review of site-specific health and safety plans for mechanical construction activities
• Ensure construction operations comply with Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act, applicable construction regulations, WSIB requirements, client standards, and company policies
• Track safety performance, identify trends, and present actionable recommendations to company leadership
• Maintain organizational qualifications and safety information within ISNetworld, Avetta, and other third-party compliance platforms
• Represent the company during client meetings, audits, project reviews, and external safety discussions
• Maintain the confidentiality of employee, financial, and organizational information
• Promote a visible, accountable, and prevention-focused safety culture throughout the business

Requirements

• Active Canadian Registered Safety Professional, CRSP, designation
• Direct health and safety experience within mechanical construction
• Demonstrated experience leading construction health and safety programs
• Strong knowledge of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act and applicable construction regulations
• Experience managing or providing senior oversight for a COR-certified safety program
• Demonstrated expertise in incident investigation, risk assessment, auditing, corrective-action management, and regulatory compliance
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management capabilities
• Ability to influence safety performance across employees, subcontractors, supervisors, project managers, clients, and senior leadership
• Applicants without both a CRSP designation and relevant mechanical construction safety experience will not meet the minimum requirements for this position.

Skills

• Health and safety program management
• Risk assessment
• Auditing
• Incident investigation
• Corrective action management
• Regulatory compliance
• Leadership
• Coaching
• Communication
• Documentation
• Stakeholder management
• Safety culture promotion

Location

• Toronto, Ontario

Work Type

• Full-Time
• Permanent

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• CRSP designation

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000 CAD annually

Benefits

• Comprehensive extended health and insurance benefits
• Extended health and prescription drug coverage
• Dental and vision coverage
• Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Additional voluntary accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity options

About the Company

• The company delivers new construction, renovations, retrofits, and large-scale infrastructure projects across healthcare, long-term care, education, government, laboratories, pharmaceutical facilities, sports and recreation, hospitality, retail, commercial, and industrial sectors.

Equal Opportunity

• Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process.
• AI disclosure: Artificial intelligence is not used to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.