Safety Lead

Our client is a leading industrial construction company, offering a full range of services for the oil and gas, forestry, petrochemicals, energy and mining industries.   Our client is currently looking for a Program Safety Lead to be based from its Calgary or Edmonton Offices.  This position is a permanent staff role that may require significant travel.

The Program Safety Lead is responsible for:

• Leads and assists in the construction project “scope of work’ clarification, when required, to determine the appropriate level of task / risk assessments are complete with client and project team.
• Acts as the focal point / link between the client, internal management and labor ensuring details and expectations of personal safety performance are clear and understood.
• Ensures that all manpower / tools / equipment / materials (Personal Protective Equipment) and facilities; overall project safety resources are aligned and committed.
• Acts as a resource on all project task activities providing coaching / mentoring to supervisory and labor staff and champions the incident investigation process and issue resolution follow up, internal and external with the client involving safety, quality control, schedule and performance concerns.
• Monitors project activities, ensuring compliance to all client safety policy and procedure guidelines.
• Ensure all monitoring / reporting systems are in place and adhered to, ensuring the accurate daily progress reporting and safety compliance statistics.
• Tracks and reports internally and to client on project change that will adversely affect employee and equipment risk.

The ideal candidate will have the following requirements and qualifications:

• High school diploma, training and professional development from an accredited industry association.
• Post secondary certification diploma or degree from an accredited college, university, or technical school in a relevant discipline.
• Journeyman apprenticeship training and certification would be an asset.
• Professional certification or training in Occupational Health and Safety, supplemented by certification as a Construction Safety Officer (CSO) or a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation.
• 5 - 10 years proven proficiency in an industrial work environment in a supervisory of project coordination capacity.
• Excellent technical, planning, organization, communication and leadership skills.
• Formalized supervision and project management process training is considered an asset..

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send a word resume to: