Health, Environment, and Safety Manager

5 months ago

Vancouver, Canada Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Full time

**About Us**:
**Northwest Hydraulic Consultants** (NHC) is an international firm of civil engineers and geoscientists providing professional services for the development, management, and protection of water resources. A career at NHC has you working within a specialized team of geoscientists, water resources engineers, hydrologists, surveyors, field technicians, and GIS specialists.

**About the Role**:
Based in our North Vancouver office, the Health, Environment, and Safety (HES) Program Manager, provides a leadership role in the development, implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive range of employee health and safety programs and services to meet the goals and legal obligations of NHC’s British Columbia operations.

The position reports to a select group of owners responsible for branch operations, as well as health, safety, and environment, and will collaborate with human resources and other staff with deep knowledge of our field programs, physical laboratory operations, and administrative processes.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Plan, develop, implement, coordinate, and update NHC’s occupational health, safety, and environment polices, procedures and programs.
- Develop annual health, safety, and environment plans for BC operations based on a full review of health, safety, and environment related needs (assessment of hazards, analysis of data, audits, changing legislation).
- Review occupational health and safety legislation, amendments, and best practices to optimize occupational health, safety, and environment programs.
- Provide advice on health and safety matters, legislative requirements and best practices in the field.
- Oversee the training requirements and maintenance of a system for all health, safety, and environment-related training records, and assist in the development and rollout of programs.
- Lead annual audits to ensure the effectiveness of health, safety, and environment programs.
- Monitor, amend and update health, safety, and environment policies, manuals and safety documents.
- Attendance at regular HES meetings, including monthly HES Committee, field HES, and laboratory meetings.
- Oversight, investigation, and reporting of incidents and investigations, workplace inspections, and worker observations.
- Promote the safety culture of NHC, including communications, training, and equipment procurement and maintenance.

**About You**:
You are a mid-level safety professional with demonstrated experience implementing and leading health, safety, and environmental programs in an operational setting. Experience in remote, small team, resource-based projects (such as forestry, environmental sciences, geoscience, or civil engineering), and experience mitigating hazards including working around swift water, steep slopes, avalanche terrain, and helicopters will be advantageous.

**Required Education, Skills, and Experience**:

- Post-secondary diploma or degree in Occupational Health and Safety or related field of study.
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience with occupation health and safety management, preferably in engineering and/or geosciences, or a related field such as environmental sciences or forestry.
- Knowledge of occupational health and safety management, applicable federal, provincial, and municipal regulations/legislation, the Occupational Health & Safety Regulation, WorkSafeBC and applicable Human Rights.
- Experience with accident investigation, workplace inspection and job hazard analysis.
- Proven ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Collaborative approach with specific attention to details and follow-up.
- Strong analytical, organizational and problem
- solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Great Reasons to Join Us**:
NHC offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including annual merit-based bonuses. NHC’s success as an employee-owned, independent firm depends on creative and productive employees. We celebrate and welcome a diverse community of employees and foster their professional development and well-being. Working with NHC is an opportunity to collaborate with people who are as passionate about their profession as you are, on technically challenging and satisfying real-world projects. NHC operates several physical laboratories and has a long history of physical model studies, which is somewhat unique among private companies.

**Salary**:$95,000 - $110,000 per year (starting salary will depend on knowledge, skills, and experience).

Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. You must be legally eligible to work in Canada to be considered for this position.

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