Job Description
Are you passionate about promoting health and safety in the workplace and ensuring compliance with legislation? Strathcona County is looking for a proactive and knowledgeable Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Department Coordinator to join our team. This position plays a vital role in fostering a safety culture.
Reporting to the Supervisor, OHS Services & Data Analytics, the overall objective of this position is to support departments in implementing the County’s occupational health and safety (OHS) program. The position plays a key role in ensuring department activities meet legislative, best practice and organizational requirements by providing expert advice, support and guidance to assigned client department(s).
Responsibilities:
- Provide expert coaching and mentoring to management, supervisors and leaders to assist them in meeting their OHS responsibilities.
- Coordinate OHS management system requirements for client groups
- Provide professional advice to assist staff in ensuring legislative, corporate & departmental OHS requirements are met
- Recommend changes which facilitate improved practices and procedures
- Collaborate with the County OHS team and HR experts to ensure a comprehensive and cohesive approach to address complex issues (e.g. incident investigations, procedures, health and safety performance issues or actions required under the County’s alcohol and drug program)
- Support managers, supervisors and workers to inspect and evaluate department environments, equipment, and practices, in order to ensure compliance with legislation, corporate and departmental OHS requirements and to ensure job site safety
- Provide expert advice in addressing health and safety incident reporting/investigations, including the determination of direct and indirect causes of incidents and recommend controls to prevent reoccurrence of similar incidents
- Support departments to ensure they meet the obligations of the Certificate of Recognition (COR) program
- Respond to immediate OHS incidents or priorities
- Act as a resource for health and safety committees
- Work with leaders, supervisors and management to ensure all documentation required for the effective operation of the OHSMS is completed and tracked
- Monitor, assess and report on department OHS management system performance
- Support leaders, supervisors and management to ensure health and safety training is current and ensure competency requirements are met
- Provide expert advice in contractor safety management to enable the effective management of risk
- Provide expert advice and support on contractor safety management
- Participate as a member of Strathcona County’s OHS team, contributing to the development and review of the County OHS management system
- Help develop department safety plans and provide updates to client groups, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
Qualifications and Skills:
- Completion of a post-secondary degree and two years recent professional-level experience implementing occupational health and safety practices within operational work areas; OR Completion of a post-secondary diploma in occupational health and safety, environmental science, or occupational hygiene from a recognized academic institution, or related field and four years of recent professional-level experience implementing occupational health and safety practices within operational work areas
- CRSP or CRST, or eligibility for CRSP and actively working towards designation
- Strong knowledge of Alberta OHS legislation and best practices
- Experience with, or certification within, the Incident Command System is an asset
- Previous experience working in the public sector is an asset
- Strong interpersonal skills, relationship building, group facilitation and leadership behaviours
- Strong communication skills (listening, paraphrasing, and engaging others) are critical
- Excellent time management is imperative to this role, including managing heavy workloads and multiple demands on your time
- Strong analytical skills are necessary to interpret and manage key information obtained through many and various diverse sources
Conditions of Employment:
Class 5 Alberta vehicle operator’s license and ability to provide own transportation and meet insurance requirements
Who We Are:
Strathcona County is a specialized municipality located in the heart of Alberta. Our vision is to become Canada’s most livable community, where our workplace culture and identity are supported by our people plan and values of integrity, respect, safety, fairness, and cooperation.
Why Join Strathcona County: (depending on position)
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
o Extended health and dental coverage
o Health and wellness spending account
o Life and disability insurance and critical illness programs
o Retirement and pension programs
o Paid and unpaid leave programs
o Earned day off program
o Employee and family assistance program - Commitment to employee development, through internal and external training and development opportunities
- Well-being programs and a safety culture focused on physical and psychological health in the workplace
Equivalencies of education and experience may be considered.
This competition may be used to fill future vacancies for similar positions within the next 6 months.
Strathcona County is committed to an inclusive, respectful, and equitable workplace that represents the community we serve. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds who can contribute diverse perspectives and experiences.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
