Health and Safety Specialist
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Your Opportunity
Stantec is seeking an individual to provide intermediate level health and safety consulting services for a variety of clients (including utility, government, oil and gas, and industrial / manufacturing companies) within our on our Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health and Safety Consulting Services team. This position will support and coordinate the health and safety projects for our clients nation-wide. This role will report directly to the US Team Leader of Industrial Hygiene and OHS Consulting Services.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Provide health and safety consulting services for a variety of projects and clients.
- Assist and support health and safety and industrial hygiene staff and projects internationally.
- Assist in the development of health and safety management systems and related programs and procedures, training modules.
- Conduct health and safety compliance audits for a variety of clients and work environments.
- Assist and support clients in completing their health and safety action plans.
- Assist and support clients during incident investigations.
- Prepare programs, procedures, technical reports, auditing protocols, documentation of audits and management systems, data management and interpretation, and development of graphical and tabular presentation of data.
- Complete field work as required, including IH assessments and indoor air quality assessments.
- Collect and analyze field data and prepare industrial hygiene monitoring reports.
- Assist with project pre-job planning and hazard assessments.
- Conduct field assessments, planned job observations and worksite inspections.
- Promote HSSE within the company with a goal of continuous improvement of HSSE culture.
- You will gain increasing responsibility for project and proposal management through training and will work closely with and support senior health and safety and IH practitioners and project managers. This position requires travel to and work at client sites for audits, information gathering and client meetings.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Knowledge of and experience with federal and state occupational health and safety regulations.
- Strong technical and communication skills, both written and verbal, along with excellent interpersonal and organizational abilities, coupled with an ability to work in a team atmosphere, and ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Computer proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite of software.
- Candidate must be capable of managing and demonstrating a high level of detail in the scope of work they will be doing.
- Strong leadership skills and the capability to assess priorities and work independently.
- Experience in OHS construction and consulting is preferred.
- Experience with conducting OH&S compliance auditing is preferred.
- Experience working with field sampling equipment, including associated software is preferred.
- Working towards certification by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (CSP), or the American Board of Industrial Hygiene (in comprehensive practice), or similar designation is desirable.
- Valid Driver’s License and satisfactory driving record is required.
Education and Experience
- A degree in Occupational Health and Safety, industrial Hygiene or a related field.
- 5 years of relevant field work experience in a Health and Safety or IH role, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Travel may be required up to 25% of the time, mainly across the continental US, with potential for overnight stays up to 1 to 3 weeks.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
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