Coordinator, Health and Safety

RPMGlobal; City of Cold Lake; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Coordinator for Health and Safety to ensure compliance with health and safety frameworks across various sites. This role involves promoting safety initiatives, conducting inspections, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders to foster a safe working environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in occupational health and safety, coupled with excellent communication skills, to effectively manage safety policies and procedures. Join a team that values your expertise and offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth.

Benefits

100% Employer-Paid Health and Dental Insurance

$1,500 for Mental Health Services

$750 Health Care Spending Account

Maternity and Parental Leave Top-Up

Hybrid Workplace Options

Enhanced Employee Assistance Program

Comprehensive Vacation Plans

Annual Sick Leave

Qualifications

• Minimum two years of relevant experience in health and safety.
• Knowledge of best practices and trends in health and safety.

Responsibilities

• Promote and coordinate health and safety efforts with stakeholders.
• Conduct safety inspections and monitor compliance.
• Investigate accidents and maintain regulatory relationships.

Skills

Health and Safety Legislation

Risk Management Techniques

Communication Skills

Education

College Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety

Canadian Registered Safety Professional Certification

Tools

Computer Software

Job description

Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)

Salary Range:

$79,067 - $102,788

Employment status:

Continuing

Security Level:

Reliability

Language Requirement:

Closing Date:

14/05/2025

Country:

Canada

The Coordinator, Health and Safety, supports sites and regional offices by ensuring compliance with corporate and industrial health and safety frameworks, and ensures that staff follow established health and safety policies and procedures. The incumbent promotes and coordinates health and safety efforts with multiple stakeholders (e.g. construction coordinators), audits contractor health and safety plans, and investigates health and safety incidents.

KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES
The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive:
Primary

• Act as a site resource on health and safety policy and legislation
• Promote and coordinate health and safety efforts with multiple stakeholders
• Update contract documents to include appropriate safety requirements
• Review contractor safety submissions
• Conduct safety inspections of project sites and complete monitoring documentation
• Collaborate and share best practices
• Prepare, coordinate and chair monthly staff safety meetings
• Support corporate health and safety requirements
• Develop and maintain effective relationships within DCC, and with industry, the Client-Partners and/or stakeholders

Other

• Act as a regional resource in support of health and safety management.
• Investigate accidents and incidents, and meet all associated reporting requirements
• Maintain relationships with provincial and federal regulatory authorities
• Organize, present and/or participate in health and safety training and development
• Other duties as assigned

SKILLS
General and Specific Knowledge

• Best practices, methods, trends and legislation in health and safety

Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience

• Minimum: college diploma in occupational health and safety, industrial hygiene or related field with two years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent
• Preferred: related industry designation (e.g. Canadian Registered Safety Professional)

Abilities

• Use applicable computer software and operating systems
• Apply risk management techniques

DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP

• Provide functional advice and guidance to other employees

WORKING CONDITIONS

• Typical construction site environment; incumbent is required to wear basic safety equipment
• Some work may be in a typical office environment with occasional travel

Check out the benefits

Working with DCC offers excellent opportunities for growth – and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages. In your role as Coordinator, Health & Safety, your package is valued at 25% to 30% of your salary.

Your package will include:

• 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage
• $750 Health Care Spending Account (for some medical expenses that aren’t covered under provincial plans or our standard insurance plan)
• Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for a maximum of 37 weeks
• Hybrid workplace options including $400 allowance every two years to support work-from-home options
• Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program
• Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans

Cold Lake
The City of Cold Lake is located in Alberta’s Lakeland and nestled on the shore of Alberta’s seventh largest lake. The area is known for its many pristine lakes and forests which offer excellent camping, fishing, water sports, and many other recreational activities. Cold Lake also has modern recreation and sport facilities, a nearby alpine ski hill, as well as urban and rural trail systems. Defence Construction Canada (DCC) Cold Lake is located at 4 Wing which is an air force base operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force and home to Western Canada’s fighter jets. The Cold Lake air base is known as Canada’s busiest fighter base and the 1.17-million-hectare Cold Lake Air Weapons Range provides opportunity for Canadian and International Air Force training. Working at DCC Cold Lake offers opportunities to support in planning, construction, and maintenance of the infrastructure for the airfield runways, ramp, and hangars as well as other supporting facilities and utilities at both the base and the nearby air weapons range.

To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance.

DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process. Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening .

The appropriate security clearance is a condition of employment and it is the candidate’s or employee’s responsibility to ensure, they are able to obtain and maintain their required security level clearance to begin or continue their employment with DCC.Failure to obtain or maintain, the appropriate level of security clearance means either the candidate or employee will not receive a job offer, the conditional offer will be rendered null and void or their employment will be terminated with cause. A thorough security clearance process will be applied to all candidates or employees considered for an appointment; this process includes inquiries, verifications and assessments regarding matters such as, but not limited to:

• criminal record checks
• reference checks
• open source checks

DCC's Code of Business Conduct (Code) is a condition of employment. It serves to enhance public confidence in the integrity of DCC Employees and provides clarity to Employees on a number of issues, including real or perceived conflicts of interest. Before applying to this (or any) position at DCC, candidates shall familiarize themselves with the Code, because new employees are required to certify that they have read, understood, and agreed to observe the Code upon commencing work at DCC.Employees are further required to review their obligations under the Code and notify the President's Office of any changes in their circumstances at the earliest possible opportunity, and to complete the Annual Update once a year.

Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace!

At DCC, we are committed to ensuring everyone has a voice and can be their authentic selves in our workplace. We actively encourage applications from all, including but not limited to, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, visible minorities and members of the LGBTQ2+ community. We also welcome applications from those who are not Canadian citizens who are eligible to work in Canada and have at least 5 years of verifiable background information.

DCC is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all requests for accommodation based on a medical contraindication, religion or another prohibited ground for discrimination under the Canadian Human Rights Act. Should you require accommodation, please email [e-mail] .