Sr. Health & Safety Consultant

About OSG

OSG is a national leader in workplace health and safety, delivering training, consulting, and software solutions that help organizations operate safer, smarter, and more effectively.

We partner with organizations across Canada to navigate complex regulatory environments, reduce risk, and build strong safety cultures that support both compliance and performance. Our approach combines practical expertise, modern learning solutions, and a deep understanding of workplace realities.

At OSG, we believe safety is not just about meeting requirements - it is about enabling people and businesses to thrive. Our team is driven by a shared commitment to quality, continuous improvement, and making a meaningful impact for our clients every day.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Health & Safety Consultant to help lead and grow our consulting practice in Ontario.

This role goes beyond delivering audits and compliance reviews. The successful candidate will play a central role in building a structured, high-quality consulting function, partnering with sales to scope opportunities, leading complex client engagements, standardizing tools and methodologies, and developing a small team of hybrid trainer/consultants.

You will act as both a trusted advisor to clients and a consulting leader internally, helping shape how OSG delivers scalable, repeatable, and commercially sound health and safety solutions across a range of industries.

This is an opportunity for a senior practitioner who is ready to step into broader ownership: contributing to revenue growth, refining our consulting processes, and helping build the next phase of OSG’s service delivery model.

This role is hybrid - the Consultant is to be based in the Cambridge/Waterloo region, and will work out of their home office, various client sites, and either of our Ontario offices (London or Toronto).

The salary range for this role is $95,000-$145,000.

You’ll see this job opening for multiple locations, kindly only apply once.

Job Responsibilities

Consulting Revenue & Sales Support

• Partner with our Sales teams to scope, price, and convert consulting opportunities; supporting renewal and upselling strategies with existing clients
• Lead discovery calls and needs assessments, followed by developing proposals, SOWs, and project plans
• Contribute to revenue forecasting for consulting services, own and achieve a defined consulting revenue target

Project Leadership & Execution

• Lead complex consulting engagements (gap audits, compliance audits, COR readiness, WSIB Excellence, policy rebuilds, machine guarding, etc.)
• Build detailed workplans, timelines, and deliverables; managing client expectations and executive-level relationships
• Ensure quality, consistency, and margin discipline
• Ensure projects close with documented outcomes and renewal pathways

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Standardize consulting templates and methodologies along with audit frameworks and reporting formats to ensure services are scalable and consistent regardless of consultant assigned to the project
• Create internal QA standards to ensure the highest quality services are delivered to the client
• Improve internal processes, by establish utilization and margin tracking, along with project intake and handoff process
• Define playbooks for hybrid trainer/consultants for ease of onboarding and service delivery

Subject Matter Expertise & Market Presence

• Serve as SME for Ontario H&S compliance and own monitoring upcoming legislative changes (OHSA, CLC, WSIB, CSA, etc.)
• Manage internal OHS including program development, risk assessments, etc.
• Represent OSG at industry events, participate in marketing efforts such as webinars and content development, or client specific workshops and toolbox talks
• Support product development initiatives across the organization

People Leadership

• Coach and develop the consulting competency within the team
• Oversee workload allocation between training and consulting to ensure successful and timely delivery of consulting services
• Conduct performance reviews and professional development planning
• Ensure billable utilization targets are met

Education and Experience

• 7–10+ years of progressive H&S experience a must
• 3+ years in consulting or advisory capacity preferred
• CRSP or CHSC required
• COR or ISO Certified preferred
• Experience in provincially and federally regulated environments
• Industrial/manufacturing exposure preferred
• Post-secondary education in OHS or related discipline

Skills, Knowledge and Attributes

• Strong business acumen with the ability to scope and develop compelling proposals
• Effective project management skills, with a focus on delivery, timelines, and outcomes
• Confident communicator, comfortable engaging with executive-level clients
• Proven ability to coach, mentor, and support team development
• Systems thinker with experience in process design and continuous improvement
• Financially aware, with a focus on margin and efficient delivery
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, scaling environment
• Valid Ontario driver’s license and willingness to travel provincially as needed
• Based in Cambridge/Waterloo with a reliable home office and secure internet access

At OSG we take pride in being an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility in employment and within the workplace is what we are passionate about, and one of the ways we demonstrate this is through our recruitment process. We are committed to providing accommodations for all candidates that require them and in all aspects of the recruitment, selection, and/or assessment process.

If you are selected to participate in any part of the selection and/or assessment process, please inform us of any accommodation(s) that you may require.