At Canadian Solar, our vision is to make lives better by bringing electricity powered by the sun to millions of people worldwide. As a leading manufacturer of solar panels, inverters, and energy storage solutions, we've been an industry front-runner since our founding in 2001. Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in all parts of our organization as we navigate the complexities of a booming industry.
Throughout Canadian Solar's subsidiaries, e-Storage, Recurrent Energy, MSS and CSI Solar Co., we invest in our employees' growth. Our training programs and promotional opportunities ensure we all can continue to learn. We understand the importance of work-life balance and provide various flexible work options to support our employees' well-being. Join our team to "Make the Difference" by creating a lasting positive impact on the world and the communities where we operate.
Position Summary:
The EHS Supervisor oversees and enforces EHS programs and policies for the manufacturing facility, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local environmental, health, and safety regulations. This role leads daily site-level EHS operations, drives safety culture, and works cross-functionally with other depts. assisting to mitigate risk, promoting continuous improvement & devising the EHS strategy.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop, implement & maintain EHS procedures in accordance with federal, state, and local requirements.
- Support projects involving environmental site assessment & site investigation.
- Land assessments for industrial, commercial, or residential sites for environmental impact.
- Facilitate and support EHS hazard identification and risk assessments.
- Identify EHS training needs leading to the development & coordination of safety-training programs.
- Assists in compliance reviews, general risk assessments, and other safety assessments with the determination of effective controls and risk mitigation in support of Environmental, Health, and Safety management.
- Managing the Internal and external EHS Audit Programs, conducting Health & Safety inspections, audits, and surveys/ assessments.
- Monitor daily site conditions; perform safety rounds, audits, inspections, and hazard assessments.
- Lead incident investigations, root‐cause analysis, corrective and preventive action (CAPA).
- Oversee contractor safety, including prequalification, orientation, and monitoring.
- Support equipment safety (lockout/tagout, machine guarding, confined space entries).
- Establish, monitor, and report on EHS metrics (e.g. TRIR, DART, near misses, safety observations)
- Prepare management dashboards, trend analysis, and continuous improvement plans
- Work closely with production, maintenance, quality, HR, and operations to embed EHS into daily workflows
- Review process changes / new equipment from an EHS standpoint (Management of Change)
- Mentor and supervise EHS staff
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelors Degree in Occupational Safety, Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Strong knowledge of OSHA (29 CFR 1910), EPA, state regulations, and industry best practices
- Minimum 5 years of experience progressively in an EHS-related field, preferably with administrative and supervisory responsibility.
- Manufacturing experience is a plus.
- Good communication and teamwork skills, good problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety management system practices and developing, ISO 14001:2015 Environmental management System and ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management.
- Strong sense of responsibility, highly motivated, forward thinking, and servant leadership.
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What We Do
Founded in 2001 in Ontario Canada, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is as a global energy provider with successful business subsidiaries in 20 countries & regions on 6 continents. Canadian Solar is both a leading manufacturer of solar PV modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, with over 14,000 employees globally.
With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, Brazil and South East Asian countries, Canadian Solar now has module manufacturing capacity and has delivered more than 55 GW of premium quality solar modules to customers in over 150 countries in the past 20 years.
Canadian Solar has solar power projects globally and solar power plants that are in commercial operation, with a resale value of US$1.2 billion. In addition, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified utility-scale solar power project pipeline around 10 GWp, with projects being developed in the U.S., Japan, Latin America,Australia, EMEA, South East Asia, India and China. Of the total project pipeline, 2.9 GWp of projects are at late-stage development and have secured energy offtake agreements.
In 2018, Canadian Solar achieved a revenue of US$3.74 billion, Meanwhile, Canadian Solar was listed as the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer in terms of bankability for Q4 2018, and was named as Top 3 Global Utility-scale Solar PV Project Developer for 2017 by GTM Research.
Canadian Solar Founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Qu blogs as a LinkedIn Influencer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnqu/.
Canadian Solar is making the difference by delivering more clean, safe and affordable solar energy to the world.
