Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

at  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Do you want to be in a role where you can help promote, enhance, and support the development, implementation and oversight of robust programs, policies, practices, and a culture of safety to help CNL meets its vision for safety excellence? Do you have a passion for health and Safety and see yourself working in a team to help ensure the health and safety of personnel, contractors, visitors and the public? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you! Our Chalk River location is looking for an Occupational Health and Safety(OSH) Specialist to further promote proactive safe work practices for the prevention of harm to people, property, and the environment.

What will you be doing !

• Recognizing and encouraging positive workplace OHS practices, and compliance to program and legislative requirements by project delivery personnel and contractors. Complete compliance monitoring on OHS related project activities against CNL and contractor specific programs, plans and procedural requirements through formal and informal oversight inspection and auditing.
• Providing expertise, support and assistance on the development, review, implementing and monitoring of task and project specific OHS programs, work-plans, risk registers, and management system components.
• Fostering and promoting the reporting of hazards and pause/stop-work scenarios where appropriate. Promoting safety culture excellence by being a role model and setting the safety standard on site.
• Collaboratively coaching, mentoring and interacting with colleagues, CNL project team members, site superintendents, supervisors, contractors, and other parties involved in work activities to help deliver the safe execution of work.
• Completing in-field observations to identify and follow up on non-compliance, areas for improvement and other such gaps related applicable laws, regulations, contract commitments and CNL internal corporate requirements.
• Completing OSH program and plan reviews as part of tender, contractor selection, or other applicable submissions.
• Providing timely customer service with credible and expert response to support requests.
• Helping investigate and follow up on non-compliance observations, loss or no-loss incidents, or other gaps identified associated with their assigned work-scope, projects, or activities they help oversee.
• Preparing detailed reports and follow up on recommended corrective actions associated with completed compliance & oversight reports, incident reports, observations, and root-cause analysis recommendations when required.
• Documenting observations pertaining to their work oversight activities including entering/transcribing oversight information in CNL’s various recordkeeping and information management systems according to established requirements.
• Supporting CNL to help improve OHS program and practices through self-generated improvement initiatives and participation in developing and/or updating CNL wide corporate procedures and standards.
• Supporting CNL’s industrial hygiene program, where appropriate, upon request through maintenance of worker exposure inventories, maintain basic instrument calibration needs and supply inventories, perform basic monitoring for worker exposures to occupational safety and industrial hygiene hazards, performer hearing testing, scheduling medical baselines, or other tasks as assigned and in collaboration with CNL’s Industrial Hygiene team.
• Collecting/Analyzing/Communicating OHS program and management performance through various reports and scorecards to capture leading and lagging indicator program and project performance.
• Supporting and coordinating project-wide safety campaign communications and implementation of applicable best-practices, OPEX, or ImpAct actions based on shared incident lessons learned.
• Collecting records, completing trends reviews, and as needed help investigate and follow up on non-compliance observations, and loss or no-loss incidents.
• Collaboratively interact with colleagues and project personnel team members, contractors and necessary parties to help address OHS program improvement opportunities.
• Prepare detailed reports and follow up on OHS program performance and support OHS data analytics and visualization.
• Document and record safety data pertaining to project oversight activity including entering/transcribing oversights information and follow through on various internal CNL information recordkeeping established procedures.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for :

• Someone who has the ability to:
• Utilize risk management principles and think outside the box in order to problem solve.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills – written and oral - and proven ability to maintain successful working relations at all levels within the organization and with external stakeholders.
• Tailor communications to mixed audiences with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrate strong relationship management, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Solve problems through soft and hard analytical skills.
• Work with applicable software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Understand and interpret safety statistics and performance metrics.
• Prioritize and manage multiple deliverables and task pressures.
• Adapt to a changing environment and respond with initiative.
• Provide prompt, clear and concise guidance as required. The candidate must be tactful and diplomatic, able to work effectively with employees, contractors and line management.
• Present recommendations, complete regulatory reporting and technical writing in a clear and effective manner.
• Effectively handle and diffuse difficult situations real time with internal and external clients.
• Be highly motivated and able to work with minimal supervision, punctual and dependable.
• Experience:
• 4-6 years of OHS experience in an equivalent role within complex nuclear, research & technology, heavy construction project, waste management, heavy manufacturing, industrial processing, mining, oil & gas, or other civil or environmental remediation experience. Experience within a radiation safety and/or protection setting is an asset but not required.
• Knowledge, experience or training in requirements of project management is required
• Education:
• College diploma or university degree within an OHS or related field from an accredited Canadian or international program, or an extensive set of health and safety training and certification. Possess, or must have ability to possess, minimum professional credentials as a CRST and NCSO. CRSP or equivalent recognized designations like the CSP or CMIOSH is additionally preferred.
• Security clearance eligibility required: Reliability Status with Site Access Security Clearance (SASC), which has a minimum requirement of 3 years of verifiable history in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United States and/or the United Kingdom.

Working Conditions :

• Ability to be physically active (standing, walking) for up to 12 hrs a day. Able to manage stairs, ladders and other egress equipment to enter all site and building areas including confined space.
• Able to use personal protective equipment including a respirator.
• Extensive walking on uneven terrain in all weather conditions.
• Must be willing and able to wear a respirator and other PPE&C as required.
• Must agree to being registered as a nuclear energy worker.
• Combination of office based and field level work, including work outdoors in inclement weather and temperatures ranging from +30C to -40C.
• Prolonged periods of sedentary office work when preparing reports and other documents.
• Operational and decommissioning environments - i.e.; laboratories, workshops, confined spaces, heights, etc., laboratory settings, offices, construction sites, open fields, and possible wildlife exposure.
• Work in both radiologically active and non-active environments.
• May be required to work overtime over extended durations

Why CNL ?
Does working with a team across Canada to advance nuclear science and technology for a clean and secure world speak to you? We’re reinventing ourselves to be the pace setters, so we can lead the charge in solving the problems that matter, like building the next generation of clean nuclear and hydrogen energy solutions, developing new and better-targeted cancer treatments, and continuing to lead the world in environmental remediation.

We offer a complete total rewards package :

• paid time off (vacation, sick, floater & personal);
• benefits effective day one , that’s right, no waiting period;
• tuition support
• and a pension!

Do Our Priorities Resonate with You?

• Clean energy for today and tomorrow.
• Restore and protect the Environment.
• Contribute to the health of Canadians.

Location :
CNL’s Chalk River laboratory is nestled in the Ottawa Valley and affords our employees an area that is environmentally pristine with extensive forests, hills and numerous small lakes, all of which support a variety of wildlife typical to the southern edge of the Canadian Shield . Many surrounding towns, such as Pembroke, Petawawa and Deep River, provide you with unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep ! In fact, Deep River was named the fourth best place to live in Canada in a recent ranking by movingwaldo.com .
CNL is committed to providing an atmosphere free from barriers that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion in achieving our mission. CNL welcomes and celebrates employees, stakeholders and partners of all racial, cultural, and ethnic identities.
CNL also supports a workplace environment and a corporate culture that is built on our Core Values: Respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity and Excellence which encourage equitable employment practices and career prospects inclusive of accommodations for all employees.
CNL is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please indicate via our ATS when applying. All information received in relation to accommodation requests will be kept confidential.
The Chalk River Laboratories site is located on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. As an organization, CNL recognizes and appreciates their historic connection to this place. CNL also recognizes the contributions that First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous Peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthening this community in particular, and this province and country as a whole.

• Recognizing and encouraging positive workplace OHS practices, and compliance to program and legislative requirements by project delivery personnel and contractors. Complete compliance monitoring on OHS related project activities against CNL and contractor specific programs, plans and procedural requirements through formal and informal oversight inspection and auditing.
• Providing expertise, support and assistance on the development, review, implementing and monitoring of task and project specific OHS programs, work-plans, risk registers, and management system components.
• Fostering and promoting the reporting of hazards and pause/stop-work scenarios where appropriate. Promoting safety culture excellence by being a role model and setting the safety standard on site.
• Collaboratively coaching, mentoring and interacting with colleagues, CNL project team members, site superintendents, supervisors, contractors, and other parties involved in work activities to help deliver the safe execution of work.
• Completing in-field observations to identify and follow up on non-compliance, areas for improvement and other such gaps related applicable laws, regulations, contract commitments and CNL internal corporate requirements.
• Completing OSH program and plan reviews as part of tender, contractor selection, or other applicable submissions.
• Providing timely customer service with credible and expert response to support requests.
• Helping investigate and follow up on non-compliance observations, loss or no-loss incidents, or other gaps identified associated with their assigned work-scope, projects, or activities they help oversee.
• Preparing detailed reports and follow up on recommended corrective actions associated with completed compliance & oversight reports, incident reports, observations, and root-cause analysis recommendations when required.
• Documenting observations pertaining to their work oversight activities including entering/transcribing oversight information in CNL’s various recordkeeping and information management systems according to established requirements.
• Supporting CNL to help improve OHS program and practices through self-generated improvement initiatives and participation in developing and/or updating CNL wide corporate procedures and standards.
• Supporting CNL’s industrial hygiene program, where appropriate, upon request through maintenance of worker exposure inventories, maintain basic instrument calibration needs and supply inventories, perform basic monitoring for worker exposures to occupational safety and industrial hygiene hazards, performer hearing testing, scheduling medical baselines, or other tasks as assigned and in collaboration with CNL’s Industrial Hygiene team.
• Collecting/Analyzing/Communicating OHS program and management performance through various reports and scorecards to capture leading and lagging indicator program and project performance.
• Supporting and coordinating project-wide safety campaign communications and implementation of applicable best-practices, OPEX, or ImpAct actions based on shared incident lessons learned.
• Collecting records, completing trends reviews, and as needed help investigate and follow up on non-compliance observations, and loss or no-loss incidents.
• Collaboratively interact with colleagues and project personnel team members, contractors and necessary parties to help address OHS program improvement opportunities.
• Prepare detailed reports and follow up on OHS program performance and support OHS data analytics and visualization.
• Document and record safety data pertaining to project oversight activity including entering/transcribing oversights information and follow through on various internal CNL information recordkeeping established procedures.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager