HSE Specialist - Chalk River

Modern Niagara; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction services firm in Ottawa is seeking a Health and Safety Specialist to enhance safety culture on the Chalk River Project. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in construction, strong organizational skills, and a great ability to communicate. Responsibilities include facilitating safety training, engaging with workers on-site, and analyzing safety data. This is a fixed-term contract position, offering an opportunity to contribute to a significant project in Canada's infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in the construction industry is preferred.
• Drivers license and ability to travel to job sites.
• Strong interest in career growth within the construction industry.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate safety-related education training.
• Conduct on-site engagement to ensure compliance with HSE requirements.
• Analyze data to improve existing safety programs.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Organizational Skills

Proactive Approach

Education

Post-secondary education in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that’s well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada’s infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA‘s Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) – Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine’s Gold Winner for Canada’s Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada’s Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada’s Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

Role

The role of Health and Safety (HSE) Specialist is to support and cultivate a preventative safety culture that works to reduce or eliminate risk of injury and illness on the Chalk River Project. The HSE Specialist is a reliable and knowledgeable resource for workers, supervisors, foremen, managers and executives to provide support, advice, inspections, training, document management and hazard identification. This is a fixed term contract role for the duration of the Chalk River project.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitating safety-related education training
• On-site engagement to influence commitment from all MN workers to comply with all HSE requirements
• Support and lead HSE for specific operational projects by providing industry experience and specialized knowledge
• Partnering with operations on HSE messaging and communications to MN employees
• Analyzing data from reports to review existing preventative programs and make recommendations for new preventative initiatives
• Engaging and collaborating with field leaders when doing site inspections
• Attending all HSE applicable meetings
• Supporting operations and Project Leadership in managing risk by: analyze and interpret data to identify opportunities of improvement enhancing our safe work procedures by utilizing lessons learned; analyze HSE training needs and provide recommendations of training to ensure competency and awareness of workers; consulting for operations on new project site specific safety plans; advising on safety topics; incident and claim management

Qualifications and Requirements

• Post-secondary education in a related field is an asset
• Previous 3+ years experience working in the construction industry would be a strong asset
• Credentials to support skillset
• Demonstrated competency with Microsoft Office including: Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Effective communicator with the ability to develop and sustain productive working relationships with employees, subcontractors and other stakeholders at all levels
• Well organized with an ability to effectively set and manage competing priorities
• Sense of prioritization and drive to succeed
• Must be comfortable working within a deadline driven fast paced environment
• Resourceful, energetic and able to manage multiple priorities
• Strong team player with the ability to operate independently with confidence
• Driver's license and the ability to travel to job sites with own vehicle
• Strong interest in growing career within the construction industry

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity-seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at