Manager, Environmental H&S Compliance - City of Toronto, Toronto

What you'll do

As the Manager, Environmental Health & Safety Compliance for Toronto Water, you will hold a pivotal leadership role within the City of Toronto. This position offers a unique opportunity to strategically advance the division's environmental compliance, occupational health and safety, quality management, risk management, and emergency preparedness programs. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, providing senior-level expert advice to foster a culture of safety, compliance, and continuous improvement across a complex operational environment in Toronto.

• Lead Toronto Water’s environmental compliance, occupational health and safety, quality management, risk management, and emergency preparedness programs.
• Provide direction to a multidisciplinary team, fostering a strong culture of health and safety, environmental stewardship, accountability, innovation, continuous improvement and operational excellence across Toronto Water.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve divisional environmental, health and safety, emergency preparedness, and compliance frameworks, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Serve as Toronto Water’s designated Quality Management System (QMS) representative, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements and management system standards.
• Lead the division-wide emergency management program, including emergency planning, preparedness exercises, risk assessments, and business continuity initiatives.
• Provide leadership during emergency, incident, and regulatory response activities, including serving as the divisional Incident Management System (IMS) liaison.
• Oversee environmental and health and safety compliance monitoring, auditing, inspections, investigations, corrective actions, and continuous improvement programs to ensure compliance with applicable legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Advise senior leadership on compliance risks, regulatory developments and changes, emergency preparedness, and program improvement opportunities.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with regulators, emergency management partners, auditors, government agencies, and internal stakeholders to support compliance and operational excellence.
• Lead strategic planning, performance measurement, and special projects that enhance environmental stewardship, workplace safety, and organizational readiness.
• Oversee the day-to-day operations of the unit, including workforce planning, work quality, performance management, attendance management, staff development and labour relations.
• Develop and manage the unit's operating budget, ensuring effective stewardship of resources and achievement of business objectives.

Who we're looking for

We are seeking a collaborative and results-oriented leader with a proven track record in environmental, health, and safety management. The ideal candidate for this City of Toronto administration job will demonstrate strong leadership capabilities, an ability to manage complex programs and organizational change, and a commitment to enhancing organizational resilience and regulatory compliance within a large public sector context, particularly related to water services in Toronto.

• Post-secondary education in Environmental Science, Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Emergency Management, Public Administration, or a related discipline; relevant professional designations or certifications are considered an asset.
• Extensive progressive management experience in environmental compliance, health and safety, emergency management, risk management, quality management systems, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience leading, motivating, coaching, and developing multidisciplinary teams including professional, technical and unionized staff.
• Considerable supervisory experience, including performance evaluations, assignment of work and resources and budgets.
• Strong knowledge of applicable environmental, health and safety, emergency management, and drinking water and wastewater legislation and regulatory requirements including the Safe Drinking Water Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Environmental Protection Act, Ontario Water Resources Act, Fisheries Act, Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act, and Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and continuously improving management systems, policies, standards, and compliance programs in government or related agencies, including ISO-based frameworks such as ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems, ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems, ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), Ontario Drinking Water Quality Management system and continuous improvement frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in emergency preparedness, business continuity, risk assessment, incident management, and organizational resilience.
• Strong understanding of compliance auditing, regulatory inspections, investigations, corrective action programs, compliance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong financial, project, and program management skills, including experience managing budgets, performance measures, and strategic initiatives.
• Excellent communication (report writing and public speaking skills), stakeholder engagement, collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, influence and issue management skills, with regulators, emergency management partners, senior leaders, operational staff regulators, and external partners to build effective partnerships.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change, manage competing priorities, and foster a culture of safety, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess risk, interpret data, and provide evidence-based recommendations to support organizational objectives.
• A valid Class “G” Driver’s License for the Province of Ontario.

About the company

Join the City of Toronto, an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an accessible and inclusive workplace culture that reflects the diverse residents it serves. Toronto Water, a key division, plays a vital role in the city's infrastructure, managing essential water services and environmental stewardship. The City is dedicated to employment equity and provides barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), offering Code-protected accommodation throughout the recruitment process.