Joining the team at SC Johnson Professional® makes you part of a family company with a deep history in the professional market as a leading manufacturer of skincare, cleaning and hygiene products, and smart technologies. We provide solutions to Healthcare, Clean Industrial, Industrial, Office & Institutional, Hospitality & Travel, and Retail & Entertainment markets.

SC Johnson Professional® is a business unit within SC Johnson, a family-owned and led company and leading manufacturer of quality, trusted products since 1886.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Associate Manager plays a critical, hands-on role in advancing SHE excellence across two SC Johnson Professional manufacturing sites in the Brantford region operating under a shared leadership model. This on-site leader partners closely with plant leadership, operations, engineering, and frontline supervisors to turn SHE standards and regulatory requirements into practical, consistent execution that protects people, the environment, and the business.

With a strong presence on the plant floor, the SHE Associate Manager drives regulatory compliance, reduces operational risk, and strengthens a proactive safety culture across both sites. This role provides direct technical expertise and execution-focused support for site-specific SHE programs, ensuring they are not only implemented, but embedded into daily operations and sustained over time.

Success in this role comes from building trusted partnerships at all levels of the organization—coaching leaders and empowering frontline “SHE champions” to take ownership, increase accountability, and continuously improve safety, health, and environmental performance across the Brantford operations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Executes SHE compliance assurance processes (e.g., compliance calendars, leader standard work) to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements, permits, and SC Johnson standards.

• Collects, analyzes, and interprets SHE performance data to support compliance and identify opportunities to reduce operational and process safety risk.

• Conducts internal SHE audits and verifications, including GEMBA walks and behavioral observations, to proactively identify hazards and non‑conformances.

• Partners with site leadership and functional teams to drive timely and effective closure of SHE corrective and preventive actions.

• Collaborates with engineering, maintenance, and operations teams to ensure inspections, testing, and preventive maintenance for SHE‑critical equipment and high‑hazard processes are executed and documented.

• Provides hands‑on SHE technical support during regulatory inspections and interactions with enforcement agencies.

• Leads and supports SHE incident investigations, ensuring root causes are identified and corrective actions are implemented effectively.

• Deploys and maintains site SHE training programs, ensuring required training is defined, relevant, and completed as required.

• Participates in Management of Change (MOC) reviews to evaluate and control safety, health, and environmental risks associated with operational changes.

• Supports site injury reduction initiatives and employee‑driven safety programs by coaching leaders and frontline teams.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING:

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• 5+ years of relevant safety, health and environmental (SHE/EHS) experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment, preferably with hands-on program implementation and compliance responsibility at the plant level

PREFERRED EXPERIENCES AND SKILLS:

• Proven ability to engage ‘SHE champions,’ empowering them to take day-to-day ownership of safety and environmental processes.”

• Designation as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or country equivalent

• Experience leading teams/managing others

• Effective communication skills that permit the clear and concise transfer of information to stakeholders

• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Full-time core office hours with expectation to be available for occasional nights/weekends

• Up to 10% domestic travel may be required

• This position is not eligible for relocation assistance

• Work in an office environment will be approximately 50% of time

• Work in a manufacturing environment will be approximately 50% of time

Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned

at any time with or without notice as assigned by the Manager. The job description

does not constitute a contract of employment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports SHE compliance assurance processes, such as compliance calendars and leader standard work, to enable compliance with applicable laws, permit authorizations and company standards.
• Supports compliance with regulatory standards including metric generation, interpretation of data, and identification of opportunities to improve process safety risk reduction.
• Deploys internal audit processes, including SHE-related GEMBA and behavior observations, that proactively identify potential SHE non-conformances.
• Partners with stakeholders at each site to drive timely, effective closure of identified SHE-related corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborates with each site’s engineering and maintenance teams to ensure that inspections, testing, preventive maintenance activities associated with SHE-critical equipment and applicable high-hazard processes are defined and appropriately documented.
• Provides subject matter expertise to support periodic external regulatory inspections associated with safety, health, environmental and/or fire protection matters.
• Champions the investigation of safety, health and environmental incidents and ensures that corrective and preventive actions that address root causes are effectively deployed across the site.
• Deploys and maintains training processes to ensure that required safety, health and environmental training for the site is defined, addresses required content and is tracked to completion.
• Serves as a SHE representative for Management of Change (MOC) reviews to evaluate and control potential health and safety hazards and environmental impacts associated with business activity changes.
• Verifies the accuracy of data in the company’s SHE database (e.g., Entropy) and analyzes the data to identify loss trends that can contribute to injuries and illnesses, adverse environmental impacts and SHE process non-conformances.
• Drives site injury reduction plan activities to deliver on physical risk reduction and culture change
• Supports the deployment of employee-driven safety and environmental teams and facilitates technical support for team activities that promote a safe, healthy and environmentally responsible workplace.
• Partners with operations, human resources and medical teams to effectively manage return-to-work programs for work-related injuries and illnesses.
• Partners with SCJ Job Sponsors to manages onsite project-related activities consistent with SCJ’s High-Hazard Work Authorization Standards
• Provides input on site-level SHE goals and budgets.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Bachelor’s degree from an academic university in Occupational Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 5+ years of progressively increasing SHE leadership responsibility in a global manufacturing organization

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Advanced degree Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, or related discipline
• Experience in high-hazard chemical process safety management (PSM) such as the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration PSM standard or European Seveso Directive.
• Experience in driving day-to-day ownership of SHE processes to non-SHE program “champions”
• Designation as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) or country equivalent
• Experience leading teams/managing others
• Ability to interact with others, establishing open, candid and trusting relationships to create win/win outcomes
• Effective communication skills that permit the clear and concise transfer of information to stakeholders
• Project management experience to enable prioritization and management of multiple projects to completion

Job Requirements:

• Full-time core office hours with expectation to be available for occasional nights/weekends
• Up to 5% domestic travel may be required
• Work in an office environment will be approximately 60% of time
• Work in a manufacturing environment will be approximately 40% of time

Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned

at any time with or without notice as assigned by the Manager. The job description

does not constitute a contract of employment.

The Company's Total Rewards package is at or above industry levels. The expected base salary range for this position is between 99,539.00 CAD - 130,645.00 CAD. Job related skills, experience, education, and location will be considered in setting actual starting base salary. In addition to your base salary and depending on job level, eligibility, and performance, a total package may include profit sharing, a short-term incentive and/or long-term incentives. As a family company, benefits are a key piece of our Total Rewards package as well and we’re proud to provide a comprehensive, competitive, and differentiated benefits program that our people and their families value.

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe Inclusion and Diversity is more than a program. We embed inclusive practices in our day-to-day work, the way we relate to our colleagues, collaborate, and make decisions.

We value the collective richness of the differences people bring to the organization, including style, personality, thoughts, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and disability – that enables all to bring their full contributions to the organization.

SC Johnson & Son Inc., SC Johnson Professional, and SC Johnson Lifestyle Brands is committed to accessibility in its workplace and recruitment processes for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation in order to participate in this recruitment process, please contact Human Resources.