QESH Manager
About the role
Ready to lead safety, quality, and operational excellence at a global manufacturing leader? Join Oerlikon as our next QESH Manager and shape the future of Quality, Environmental, Safety & Health at our Fort Saskatchewan site. This role is critical in shaping the standards that keep our people safe, our operations compliant, and our products and services trusted by our customers. This leadership position is instrumental in driving a culture of continuous improvement, safeguarding environmental stewardship, and ensuring excellence across all quality and safety programs. We are seeking a proactive, highly skilled professional who is passionate about building strong systems, fostering collaboration and influencing positive change througout the site.
What You'll Do
- Lead strategic direction for Quality & EHS teams.
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 45001, NADCAP and corporate QESH standards.
- Strengthen safety culture and drive continuous improvement.
- Oversee laboratory and analytical testing operations.
- Collaborate closely with Operations, HR & Engineering.
- Manage budget for staff, lab upgrades, and compliance initiatives.
- Represent the site with regulators, contractors & global Oerlikon partners.
What You Bring
- Post-secondary degree; professional designations an asset.
- 15+ years in manufacturing 10+ years in leadership roles.
- Experience leading HSE programs, Quality systems and Analytical labs.
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboraiton skills.
- SAP and MS Office proficiency.
Why Join Us? Take the lead in building safer, more efficient, and higher-quality operations while influencing culture and outcomes across a global organization.
About Oerlikon Oerlikon is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, defence, energy, medical, luxury and semiconductors. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon together with its subsidiary Barmag operates in 38 countries with more than 12,000 employees across 199 locations, achieving sales of CHF 2.4 billion in 2024.
We offer a wide variety of job profiles in a dynamic, supportive environment where people are empowered to grow and reach their full potential — guided by our core values of integrity, team spirit, excellence and innovation.
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About Oerlikon
Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The Group’s solutions and comprehensive services, together with its advanced materials, empower customers by improving and maximizing the performance, function, design and sustainability of customers’ products and manufacturing processes in key industries. Pioneering technology for decades, everything Oerlikon invents and does is guided by its passion to support customers’ goals and foster a sustainable world. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the Group operates its business in two Divisions – Surface Solutions and Polymer Processing Solutions. It has a global footprint of more than 12 600 employees at 207 locations in 38 countries and generated sales of CHF 2.7 billion in 2023.
QESH Manager
About the role
Ready to lead safety, quality, and operational excellence at a global manufacturing leader? Join Oerlikon as our next QESH Manager and shape the future of Quality, Environmental, Safety & Health at our Fort Saskatchewan site. This role is critical in shaping the standards that keep our people safe, our operations compliant, and our products and services trusted by our customers. This leadership position is instrumental in driving a culture of continuous improvement, safeguarding environmental stewardship, and ensuring excellence across all quality and safety programs. We are seeking a proactive, highly skilled professional who is passionate about building strong systems, fostering collaboration and influencing positive change througout the site.
What You'll Do
- Lead strategic direction for Quality & EHS teams.
- Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 45001, NADCAP and corporate QESH standards.
- Strengthen safety culture and drive continuous improvement.
- Oversee laboratory and analytical testing operations.
- Collaborate closely with Operations, HR & Engineering.
- Manage budget for staff, lab upgrades, and compliance initiatives.
- Represent the site with regulators, contractors & global Oerlikon partners.
What You Bring
- Post-secondary degree; professional designations an asset.
- 15+ years in manufacturing 10+ years in leadership roles.
- Experience leading HSE programs, Quality systems and Analytical labs.
- Strong communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboraiton skills.
- SAP and MS Office proficiency.
Why Join Us? Take the lead in building safer, more efficient, and higher-quality operations while influencing culture and outcomes across a global organization.
About Oerlikon Oerlikon is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, defence, energy, medical, luxury and semiconductors. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon together with its subsidiary Barmag operates in 38 countries with more than 12,000 employees across 199 locations, achieving sales of CHF 2.4 billion in 2024.
We offer a wide variety of job profiles in a dynamic, supportive environment where people are empowered to grow and reach their full potential — guided by our core values of integrity, team spirit, excellence and innovation.
Follow Oerlikon LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube
About Oerlikon
Oerlikon (SIX: OERL) is a global innovation powerhouse for surface engineering, polymer processing and additive manufacturing. The Group’s solutions and comprehensive services, together with its advanced materials, empower customers by improving and maximizing the performance, function, design and sustainability of customers’ products and manufacturing processes in key industries. Pioneering technology for decades, everything Oerlikon invents and does is guided by its passion to support customers’ goals and foster a sustainable world. Headquartered in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland, the Group operates its business in two Divisions – Surface Solutions and Polymer Processing Solutions. It has a global footprint of more than 12 600 employees at 207 locations in 38 countries and generated sales of CHF 2.7 billion in 2023.