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Lead the environment strategy and priorities for Colas Canada, ensuring incremental evolution in expertise and focus within the subsidiaries.
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Set company-wide measures aimed at minimizing our activities' environmental footprint.
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Develop and implement robust environmental policies aligned with the Colas Group's commitments.
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Educate Executive Committees on policies, practices, measures, internal and external requirements.
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Champion audits, action plans, and objectives that prioritize environmental stewardship.
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Create guidelines and policies to address Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, carbon footprint management and biodiversity concerns that align with the Colas Group and Colas Canada vision.
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Leverage subject matter expertise to advise on environmental legislation and regulations, as required.
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Supervise annual environmental self-assessment and audits of all stationary installations covered by Colas environmental checklists (for existing, new, and future sites).
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Create a robust monitoring system for incidents (water or air emissions, environmental accidents) in coordination with local task forces to focus on immediate action for impact management.
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Implement the global biodiversity and low-carbon strategy, fostering a harmonious balance between business and nature by collaborating with local teams, Equipment \& Industry, Procurement, Accounting, and technical functions.
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Create the carbon reduction strategy and priorities for Colas Canada Inc. and support the subsidiaries in creating the same.
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Create a process to oversee carbon accounting in collaboration with the Finance, Procurement, and operational functions.
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Lead environmental and carbon reduction information meetings, working groups, and work sessions on priority topics.
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Lead and/or contribute to environmental and carbon reduction awareness materials (environmental risks, carbon, biodiversity, waste management, etc.), then promote and monitor their deployment (e-learning, Environment Day, etc.).
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Report environmental assessment data, best practices, incidents, and accidents to the corporate entity as required.
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In collaboration with subsidiaries, create action plans to address deficiencies.
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Lead the Health and Safety strategy for Canada.
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Collaborate with internal partners across various functions (Equipment, Industry, Accounting, Legal, HR, Insurance) to define and implement robust health and safety policies aligned with the Colas Group's commitments.
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Monitor and assess compliance with health and safety policies, ensuring alignment with external standards and internal expectations.
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Champion audits, action plans, and objectives that prioritize safety and well-being.
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Work closely with the legal team and human resources on cases or notifications of violations.
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Lead the matrix teams in health, safety, and environment alongside the direct manager at Colas Canada subsidiaries to focus on: skills development, career management, regular meetings, etc.
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Set and manage a comprehensive health and safety budget, action plans, and functional long-term priorities with quantified objectives aligned with the Health, Safety, and Environment policy, compliance assessments, and internal and external audit outputs.
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Review and analyze detailed health and safety performance dashboard at the Canadian level to generate an annual summary report (executive meeting, management review, etc.) and relevant action plans.
