Managing Technical Consultant - Health and Safety, Electrical

Make a Lasting Impact on Safety Performance Across Complex, High-Hazard Environments

Are you a trusted health and safety consultant who thrives on solving complex challenges, influencing organizational culture, and helping clients achieve meaningful improvements in safety performance? ERM is seeking a Managing Technical Consultant, Health and Safety (Electrical) to join our growing Safety and Risk team. In this leadership role, you will partner with some of the world's leading organizations to reduce risk, strengthen safety culture, and drive sustainable business performance while helping expand ERM's industry-leading consulting practice.

As part of a global network spanning more than 40 countries, you'll collaborate with technical experts, business leaders, and multidisciplinary teams to deliver innovative solutions that create safer workplaces and stronger organizations.

Why This Role Matters

Safety is more than compliance—it's a critical driver of operational excellence, workforce wellbeing, and business resilience. Organizations today face increasingly complex safety, process risk, and regulatory challenges that require strategic thinking, technical expertise, and strong leadership.

In this role, you will help clients proactively manage risk, strengthen safety systems, prevent serious injuries and fatalities, and build lasting organizational capability. Your expertise will directly influence how organizations protect their people, manage high-hazard operations, and achieve long-term success.

What Your Impact Is

As a senior consultant and people leader, you will:

• Guide clients through complex safety and risk challenges across high-hazard industries.
• Design and implement innovative safety programs that improve performance, reduce risk, and strengthen compliance.
• Lead multidisciplinary projects that help organizations build stronger safety cultures and operational resilience.
• Mentor and develop technical professionals while helping grow ERM's Safety and Risk practice.
• Build trusted client relationships that generate long-term partnerships and business growth.
• Contribute to industry-leading solutions that improve worker safety, leadership effectiveness, and organizational performance.

What You'll Bring

Required

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Chemistry, Engineering (Chemical, Environmental or Mechanical), or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of a degrree of 8+ years.
• 4+ years of consulting experience supporting organizations in safety management, risk management, EHS performance improvement, leadership development, or safety culture initiatives.
• Experience managing client relationships, preparing proposals and contracts, and contributing to business development activities.
• Strong background working within high-hazard industrial or construction environments ideally experience with data centers, power or heavy manufacturing.
• Demonstrated experience supporting construction safety programs on active project sites, including contractor and subcontractor oversight.
• Working knowledge of OSHA General Industry (29 CFR 1910) and Construction Standards (29 CFR 1926), with experience applying requirements in field-based settings.
• Experience participating in daily work planning activities, including toolbox talks and pre-task planning.
• Ability to conduct field observations, evaluate risk controls, and assess the effectiveness of safety programs and procedures.
• Strong project and program management capabilities with the ability to balance scope, schedule, budget, and client expectations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical report writing and client presentations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
• Willingness to travel up to 75%, depending on project, client and business needs.
• Passion for safety excellence, continuous improvement, and helping organizations achieve world-class EHS performance.
• 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

• 6+ years of consulting experience in health, safety, risk management, or EHS performance improvement.
• Professional credentials such as CESCP, CSP, ASP, CIH, CHMM, PE, or similar certifications.
• Experience leading safety transformation initiatives, behavioral safety programs, or safety leadership development efforts.
• Experience facilitating workshops and training programs.
• Knowledge of Serious Injury and Fatality (SIF) prevention and management.
• Experience supporting high-hazard industries and process safety programs.
• Experience conducting incident investigations and root cause analyses.
• Experience performing compliance audits and safety assessments.
• Knowledge of ISO 45001 and/or ISO 14001 management systems.
• Leadership coaching and organizational culture change experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct electrical safety program assessments against OSHA and NFPA 70E requirements.
• Perform electrical shock and arc flash risk assessments.
• Review arc flash studies, short-circuit studies, and protective device coordination studies.
• Evaluate electrical safe work practices (ESWP), energized work procedures, and lockout/tagout programs.
• Conduct fire and life safety assessments for existing and new facilities.
• Evaluate compliance with applicable fire codes, building codes, and fire protection standards.
• Support permit applications, equivalency requests, and variance submissions.
• Evaluate lithium-ion battery storage, charging, and deployment operations.
• Support compliance evaluations against NFPA 855, IFC, UL standards, and local regulations.
• Develop and implement innovative safety and risk management programs that help clients proactively manage operational, compliance, and workplace safety risks.
• Lead complex safety and process safety projects, including audits, assessments, safety studies, and strategic program development.
• Design solutions addressing construction safety, management systems, serious injury and fatality prevention, process safety, machine safety, and safety culture improvement.
• Support incident investigations, root cause analyses, corrective action development, and verification of risk controls.
• Coach leaders and frontline personnel to strengthen safety leadership capabilities and improve organizational performance.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on complex health, safety, and risk management challenges.
• Conduct field-based assessments and observations to verify the effectiveness of safety controls and programs.
• Partner with clients to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainable performance gains.
• Build and expand client relationships that generate repeat business and long-term partnerships.
• Collaborate with ERM account teams, Principals, and Partners to develop proposals, win new work, and grow the Safety and Risk practice.
• Lead, mentor, develop, and inspire technical professionals to achieve project and business objectives.
• Support project managers in delivering high-quality work that meets scope, budget, schedule, and client expectations.
• Deliver training, field coaching, workshops, and targeted assessments that help clients strengthen safety performance and organizational capability.
• Collaborate with ERM's global network of technical experts to share best practices and deliver integrated client solutions.

For the Managing Technical Consultant, Health and Safety position, the anticipated annual base pay is $99,900–$130,900 (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.

Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

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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