Consultant, Health & Safety

At ERM, you’ll partner with global organizations to elevate occupational health and safety performance, reduce risk, and drive meaningful, lasting impact across complex environments. This role is ideal for a safety professional ready to apply deep technical expertise while growing alongside one of the world’s leading consultancies. 

Why This Role Matters? 

Health and safety excellence is foundational to resilient, responsible organizations. As a Consultant, Health & Safety in our Cleveland office, you’ll help clients protect people, strengthen compliance, and build proactive safety cultures across industrial, high‑tech, pharmaceutical, energy, and chemical environments. Your work will directly support safer operations—locally and globally—while 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 programs that move clients beyond compliance toward best‑in‑class performance 

• Collaborate with ERM’s national and global technical experts, contributing to knowledge‑sharing and continuous improvement 

• Build trusted client relationships by consistently delivering projects on time, on budget, and to scope 

What You’ll Bring: 

Required 

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety, Occupational Health, Engineering, or a related scientific discipline. 

• 3+ years of experience supporting day-to-day operations in a warehouse, manufacturing, production, logistics, or other operational environment. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings clearly. 

• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively to multidisciplinary teams. 

• Strong organization skills and ability to track actions, documentation, and follow-through. 

• Ability to spend significant time on the floor in an active operations environment. 

• 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 warehouse operation, light industrial, new site openings, temporary labor environments and contractor safety programs. 

• Familiarity with ergonomics in repetitive manual tasks, machine guarding, lockout/tagout concepts.

• OSHA 30 or similar certification/training. 

• Ability to thrive in fast‑paced, innovative client environments while producing high‑quality deliverables. 

• Ability to help develop practical SOPs, checklists, and training materials from the ground up. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Manage day-to-day support for the warehouse operations. 

• Conduct routine floor walks, inspections, and task-based hazard assessments. 

• Support development and implementation of site programs and operating procedures covering ergonomics, machine safety, material handling, housekeeping, fire/life safety, emergency preparedness, and contractor safety. 

• Partner with operations leaders to identify risks, recommend controls, and track corrective actions to closure. 

• Deliver and coordinate training for employees, temporary workers, contractors, and supervisors. 

• Support incident reporting, near-miss review, root cause analysis follow-up, and lessons-learned communication. 

• Coordinate with Facilities, Security, and site leadership on emergency response readiness, and evacuation planning. 

• Monitor waste handling, storage conditions, aisle clearance, and general site housekeeping expectations. 

• Maintain required records, inspection logs, training documentation, and risk assessment updates. 

• Support management of change when layouts, staffing, shifts, equipment, or workflows change. 

For the Consultant, Health & Safety position, the anticipated annual base pay is $80,000–$100,613 (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 consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to 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 , 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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