Safety Specialist

(Internal Title: Construction Safety Officer)

• Provide construction safety assurance by reviewing and assessing the Contractor’s Safety Plan and Safe Work Method submissions and inspecting construction sites.
• Collaborate and influence client team to implement and maintain OSHW program.
• Undertake focused integrated functional assurance reviews to ensure best practice is being implemented consistently across all applicable projects.
• Champion transformational Occupational Safety, Health & Wellbeing initiatives and drive their implementation with the alliance partners.
• Support a dynamic lesson learnt and business improvement process for Occupational Safety, Health & Wellbeing across the program.
• Produce required reports and input data for reporting.
• Assure the delivery of Occupational Safety, Health & Wellbeing initiatives internally within the MCS team and with the client.
• Work with the Safety Manager to develop best practice guides, training, presentations, and briefing packages and deliver to appropriate target audience based on their role or responsibilities within the program.
• Conduct regular safety inspections/audits of the jobsites, public areas, adjacent thereto, take necessary and timely corrective actions to eliminate unsafe acts or conditions and to fulfill the needs and expectations of the client.
• Report violations of compliance or regulatory standards to the project interested parties as appropriate or required.
• Collect reports required for records and evaluations of performance of safety programs.
• Ensure timely reporting of incidents.
• Ensure that corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) related to incidents, observations, audits, and inspections are tracked and completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure that CAPA are followed up and are effective.
• Ensure that all contractors and subcontractors employees comply with jobsite safety rules and regulations.
• Verify that all the applicable client and regulatory policies and procedures have been implemented on the project sites.
• Supply info for HSE KPI’s to the Safety Director to promote continuous improvement initiatives on a monthly basis.
• Any additional duties, as deemed necessary to support the deliverables and Key Activities.

Working Conditions

• Site-based

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years of direct onsite safety management experience and health and safety practices.

Education

• College Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Health and Safety or Risk Management, or a combination of education and industry experience.

Licenses OR Certifications

• Holding a recognized certification in at least one of the following: Chartered IOSH, FIIRSM/MIIRSM, Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Canadian Health and Safety Consultant (CHSC), Gold Seal Certificate (GSC) for Construction Safety Coordinator (CSC) or National Safety Officer (NCSO).

Skills and Competencies

• Experience in tunnel construction safety is required.
• Experienced with multi-disciplinary rail and transit projects, and/or complex civil infrastructure projects in brownfield/urban environments with adjacent infrastructure as relates to safety.
• Injury management and incident investigation experience.
• Field safety audit and inspection experience.
• Profound knowledge of OHS legislation.
• Experience in meeting schedule expectations and delivering work on time.
• Experience and strong technical knowledge of safety procedures.
• Experience in safety training, safety investigations, safety performance indicators.
• Well-organized and superb time management skills.
• Position requires honesty, dependability, and the ability to be relied upon, responsible, and fulfill obligations.
• Ability to arrange priorities and escalate competing risks to meet deadlines with minimum input from leadership.
• Keen eye for detail and adept problem-solving abilities.
• Must have demonstrated experience relaying and receiving information (written and verbal).
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office.