Occupational Safety and Health Specialist

at  Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) is looking for a Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Specialist. The OSH Specialist helps 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. The role overall reports into CNL’s corporate Health, Safety, Security, and Environment (HSSE) while being functionally integrated into CNL’s various mission lines, projects and operating divisions in a matrixed format. HSSE’s principal customers are CNL employees, our contractor partners, visitors, and the community at large impacted by CNL activities.

What will you be doing!

• Proactivity recognizing and encouraging positive workplace OSH practices, and compliance to program and legislative requirements by project delivery personnel and contractors.
• Completing compliance monitoring on OSH related project activities.
• Providing expertise, support and assistance on the development, review, implementation and monitoring of task and project specific OSH 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.
• 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.
• Investigating and following up on non-compliance observations, loss or no-loss incidents, or other gaps identified associated with the assigned work-scope, projects, or activities.
• Preparing detailed reports and following up on recommended corrective actions associated with completed compliance & oversight reports, incident reports, observations, and root-cause analysis recommendations.
• Entering/transcribing oversight information in CNL’s various recordkeeping and information management systems.
• Supporting CNL to help improve OSH 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.
• Maintaining discretion and confidentiality when applicable.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager.

What we are looking for:

• Education
• College diploma or university degree within an OSH 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.
• Experience
• Four to six (4-6) years’ of OSH experience in an equivalent role within complex nuclear, research & technology, heavy construction project, 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.
• Working knowledge of root-cause analysis principals and tools such as Taproot, Apparent Cause Analysis (ACA), Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and other safety analytical tools.
• Foundational knowledge industrial hygiene knowledge in areas such as Asbestos, Silica, hazardous products/WHMIS, noise, heat-stress, confined space entry, and personal protective equipment and clothing (PPE&C).
• Detailed practical knowledge of Canadian provincial and federal OSH legislative requirements, compliance frameworks, standards and industry best practices.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal communication skills – written and oral.
• Maintain successful working relations at all levels within the organization and with external stakeholders.
• Demonstrate outstanding organizational skills, with high attention to detail and ability to tailor communications to mixed audiences.
• Demonstrate outstanding 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.
• Work with minimal supervision, punctual and dependable.
• 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, the United States and/or the United Kingdom. CNL implements security screening in accordance with the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s “Standard on Security Screening” and the “Policy on Government Security.”

Working Conditions:

• Physically fit, able to be physically active (standing, walking) for up to 12 hours 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.
• Combination of office based and field level work, including work outdoors in inclement weather and temperatures ranging from +30C to -40C. Operational and decommissioning environments - i.e.; laboratories, workshops, confined spaces, heights, etc., laboratory settings, offices, construction sites, open fields, and possible wildlife exposure.
• May be required to perform overtime.
• Work in both radiologically active and non-active environments.
• This role may have occasion travel.

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 pacesetters 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 unparalleled outdoor adventures at your doorstep!
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. Read here for more on our DE&I Commitment.
CNL also supports a workplace environment and corporate culture built on our Core Values: respect, Teamwork, Accountability, Safety, Integrity, and Excellence. These values 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 regarding 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.

• Proactivity recognizing and encouraging positive workplace OSH practices, and compliance to program and legislative requirements by project delivery personnel and contractors.
• Completing compliance monitoring on OSH related project activities.
• Providing expertise, support and assistance on the development, review, implementation and monitoring of task and project specific OSH 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.
• 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.
• Investigating and following up on non-compliance observations, loss or no-loss incidents, or other gaps identified associated with the assigned work-scope, projects, or activities.
• Preparing detailed reports and following up on recommended corrective actions associated with completed compliance & oversight reports, incident reports, observations, and root-cause analysis recommendations.
• Entering/transcribing oversight information in CNL’s various recordkeeping and information management systems.
• Supporting CNL to help improve OSH 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.
• Maintaining discretion and confidentiality when applicable.
• Other duties as assigned by your manager