Director, ERM Occupational Health & Safety

at  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Can you see yourself supporting a continual pro-active approach to the design and implementation of relevant safety, health and Industrial Hygiene programs that support worker safety and continuous improvement? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Our Chalk River location is looking for an Director of ERM OSH ( Environmental Remediation, Occupational health and safety) to provide effective support of the operations of business .

• Supporting the Director, Corporate OSH with developing the mandate, overarching strategy, annual and long-term business plan and budgets to improve the delivery of Safety and Health at ERM
• Leading a team of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in Safety and Health to deliver the corporate mandate to Whiteshell safety teams and to the field at large. Fosters a team environment where worker safety and health issues are identified, analyzed and resolved to ensure effective knowledge transfer and awareness to all team members.
• Demonstrating leadership in safety and health matters and taking responsibility for incorporating safety considerations and risk management into plans and programs.
• Providing overall governance to local operations to ensure adherence to Federal and Provincial Acts and Regulations (where applicable), regulations and codes related to worker safety.
• Liaising with regulatory agencies at all government levels.
• Ensuring effective oversight and reporting of safety and health issues as it relates to ERM site operations.
• Ensuring the development of new and/or refines existing policies in accordance with current and changing regulations, procedures and best practices relevant to safety and health in the diversified CNL work environment.
• Ensuring the development and delivery of relevant safety and health training to site location team members, supervisors and managers as required.
• Communicating regularly with senior management on all worker safety and health matters.
• Ensuring systems are in place to identify and address all industrial hygiene and occupational hazards through evaluation and mitigation. Provides leadership to Site Safety teams who will work closely with the operations teams to ensure CNL continuously improves its performance as a safe working environment.
• Providing direction and oversight to Site Safety teams and field operations in various locations on the enactment of procedures/protocol/planning and reporting of Incident/Accident investigations, planned inspections and audits.
• Ensuring that all incidents, accidents, investigations and audits are properly documented, logged and tracked in the information management system.
• Establishing performance measures for ERM with a view to improve safety and health performance.
• Directing the design of programs and procedures to identify, control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by biohazards, chemical agents, physical hazards or ergonomic factors that involve the impact of equipment design on a worker’s comfort or fatigue.
• Acting as the Functional Support Manager for the Occupational Safety & Health and/or the Health Centre Functional Support Areas.
• Establishing a solid partnerships with business leaders at ERM and across CNL to ensure effective support for the mandate of Safety and Health.
• Reinforcing a “safety begins with me” and “ safety first” attitude in an environment focused primarily on radiological safety, by demonstrating effective listening skills in understanding resistance to change, and effective coaching and facilitation skills to inform management of their regulatory obligations.
• Directing the design of programs and procedures to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by biohazards, chemical agents, physical hazards or ergonomic factors that involve the impact of equipment design on a worker’s comfort or fatigue.
• Directing the continuous improvement of the Occupational Health and Safety information management system. Establishes performance measures for ERM with a view to improve Safety performance.
• Interacting with the regulators (e.g.: CNSC) as well as other government agencies (Health Canada, and various Provincial and Federal Ministries) on matters to Safety and Health. In addition, the Director interacts with other similar groups in other organizations (e.g.: Canadian Nuclear Utilities) responsible for supplying similar services.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.