Coordinator, Health and Safety

Defence Construction Canada; City of Cold Lake; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Defence Construction Canada is seeking a Coordinator for Health and Safety in Cold Lake. The role involves ensuring compliance with safety policies, conducting inspections, and promoting health and safety initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a college diploma in occupational health and safety and relevant experience. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance and a wellness allowance.

Benefits

Public service pension

100% employer-paid health and dental premiums

$400 Wellness Allowance

$1,500 for mental health services

$750 Health Care Spending Account

Hybrid workplace options

Enhanced employee assistance program

Comprehensive vacation plans

Qualifications

• Minimum two years relevant experience or equivalent.
• Act as a site resource on health and safety policy.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with health and safety policies.
• Conduct safety inspections and audits.
• Promote health and safety efforts with stakeholders.

Skills

Risk management principles

Best practices in health and safety

Education

College diploma in occupational health and safety

Canadian Registered Safety Professional

Job description

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Who Can Apply?:

Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)

Salary Range

$79,067 - $102,788

Employment Status

Continuing

Term Length

Security Level:

Reliability

Language Requirement

English Essential

Closing Date

22/05/2025

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
• Manage risk
  
  

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
• Risk management principles
  
  

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

• Public service pension
• 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• $400 Wellness Allowance (e.g., gym membership)
• $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)
• Telus Virtual Health Care
• 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
• Deluxe travel benefit plans
• 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 .

Required

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
• previous employment
• open source checks
• credit/financial status
  
  

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] .

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Construction

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