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Health, Safety and Environment Specialist***Spécialiste de santé, sécurité et environnement

City of Langley, British Columbia
Senior Level
full_time

About the role

Job Summary We are looking for an HSE Specialist to join our team. This position coordinates the implementation and maintenance of the management systems for the health, safety & environmental program. The incumbent position will be responsible for proposing strategies, planning implementation, providing training and monitoring implementation progress. The successful candidate will be on site regularly performing safety observations, assisting the location and stakeholders, coordinating the risk management process, supporting the development and implementation of safe work practices, and other duties to drive the safety

culture within the site. This position facilitates the internal audit process to ensure compliance with legal and corporate requirements

Responsibilities

  • Lead the implementation of various HSE programs, adapt them to local needs when necessary and create and deliver site specific procedures, training and work instructions.
  • Drive the site specific HSE related activities and enhance engagement in HSE programs and best practices.
  • Lead gap analysis process and develop action plans.
  • Ensure HSE regulatory compliance audits are conducted.
  • Support and facilitate investigations into HSE non-conformances, accidents, environmental releases and other incidents. Ensures documentation and follow-up of recommended preventive and corrective actions.
  • Report all relevant incidents to the appropriate workers compensation organizations and/or regulatory authorities and monitor the claims management process in collaboration with internal and/or external parties.
  • Support and facilitate Health and Safety committee initiatives.
  • Support cross-functional teams in the implementation, creation and or modification of site-specific controls, programs and implementation of tools to maximize compliance and performance. Review proposed changes to equipment, materials and work practices to identify the need for potential system modifications and make the relevant recommendation.
  • Create and maintain site-specific HSE reference manuals, standards, policies, procedures, and work instructions. Develop, maintain and control distribution of site standards, reference manual and materials.
  • Support internal and external environmental compliance reporting.
  • Maintain summary data and facilitate reporting on environmental KPIs.
  • Maintain various HSE files, databases & programs.
  • Review and update the hazardous materials program and site-specific training.
  • Escalate any relevant situation to HSE BP as needed

Qualifications

  • Technical Diploma and/or certificate in Occupational Health & Safety from a post-secondary institution
  • CRSP/CRST, CSP or equivalent will be considered an asset
  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in health, safety & environment.
  • 3 years’ experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, including training development & delivery skills.
  • Strong computer skills and technical aptitude.

Key Relationships The individual must have a strong working relationship with all line managers, supervisors, and frontline employees, anticipating daily on-site communication. The incumbent will be tasked with collaborating with peers on a regular basis.

Working Conditions

  • Employee spends majority of the time in plant and yard, and may be exposed to a moderate level of hazards, such as heat, dust, high noise levels and the use of equipment such as blades and presses, moving machinery, repetitive motion, powered industrial vehicle fork/reach/ bucket lift/other.
  • Employee may be required to perform a moderate level of specific tasks such as lifting up to 20 lbs, muscular action, body movements, working positions, posture changes, visual attentiveness.
  • Employee will be required to wear high-visibility clothing, protective eyewear, appropriate gloves, hearing protection, safety shoes and any other personal protective equipment that may be required
  • Standing and walking may cover majority of the work on some days.

Travel The employee may need to occasionally visit other IPEX locations for meetings, training and learning purposes.

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at askhr@ipexna.com

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About IPEX Group of Companies

Manufacturing
1001-5000

Honesty, fairness, integrity, the golden rule: a customer-first culture. Customers want it- even demand it. And it's so easy to promise.

This is ‘distance race' thinking, and building a business on it is harder than you might think. It requires you to sacrifice many short-term opportunities for gain. It means spending whatever time it takes to help a client solve a problem on deadline. It means resisting the urge to cut corners on materials that, once in place, no one will ever see.

It means innovation: going beyond what your customers want or expect, and working restlessly to create new products and ideas to fill unmet needs. It means keeping your word, even when it's inconvenient, and honouring relationships over transactions, even when it costs. And it means building a team with people who believe it, live it, and stand by it.

At IPEX we've long-since made a decision to embrace this long-term thinking, not just when it's easy, but every day, in everything we do, for every customer and every employee. We don't do it because we're nice people, though we like to think we are. We do it because it's good business, and that the reputation we've built over time, job by job, one customer at a time, pays the best dividends.

Alex Mestres Chairman & Chief Executive Officer