Health, Safety and Environment Advisor

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada's largest research and technology organization.

We are looking for a Health, Safety and Environment Advisor to support our Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Branch. The Health, Safety and Environment Advisor would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.

The NRC operates labs and research facilities across the country, each with its own unique challenges related to health, safety and environmental management. The NRC is involved with innovative research in transportation, engineering, life and medical sciences, and emerging technologies in computer science, electronics, astronomy and nanotechnology. Each area presents a wide and exciting variety of health, safety and environment related aspects ranging from worker health and protection, to animal safety, biosafety, radiation safety, hazardous materials management, noise and air emissions, waste waters, species at risk, and the list goes on.

The NRC’s HSE Branch proactively establishes, promotes and implements best practices in health, safety and environmental management. The HSE Branch provides enabling and support services to NRC’s Research & Development activities, assuring the health and safety of our employees, our neighbouring communities and our environment.

As a Health, Safety and Environment Advisor, you will partner with your assigned clients in the research centres and corporate branches to expand upon a culture that works proactively to ensure the health and safety of employees, visitors, contractors, our neighbouring communities, and the environment. You will be expected to develop a strong knowledge of your client’s business and their resulting challenges related to health, safety and environment stewardship so that you can effectively support implementation and monitor NRC’s occupational health, safety and environmental management policies and programs. The HSE Advisor team members are supported by a strong operations group and risk area experts who will provide technical advice and guidance as required.

In our Halifax location, we are looking for an HSE Advisor to embrace the responsibility of supporting the clients. To be successful in this client facing role, you will need to have strong interpersonal skills and the desire to learn about new clients, new policies and programs, possess excellent organizational awareness coupled with demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of safety programs in settings such as laboratories, machine shops, high-capacity industrial equipment and electrical/engineering environments together with the required analytical skills to accomplish the required tasks.

**Screening Criteria**:
**Education**:
Bachelor’s degree in science (chemistry, biology, biochemistry, environment), engineering, or industrial hygiene.

A Master’s degree in one of the disciplines listed above will be considered an asset.

Preference may be given to those with a professional certification in a field relevant to the position.

An equivalent combination of work-related experience, training and education would also be considered.

For information on certificates and diplomas issued abroad, please see Degree equivalency

**Experience**:

- Significant* experience providing HSE support in remote/rural worksites that are multi-faceted operations; AND
- Experience working in a scientific, engineering and/or industrial work environment including experience supporting the implementation of environment, and/or health & safety related legislation, regulations, policies and/or programs. Ideally this would include experience such as performing risk assessments, preparing safe work procedures, conducting audits or workplace inspections, providing emergency response support, and/or participating in investigations following incidents and accidents; OR
- Significant* experience in providing support to business units with respect to the implementation of environment, and/or health & safety related legislation, regulations, policies and/or programs. Ideally this would include experience such as performing risk assessments, preparing safe work procedures, conducting audits or workplace inspections, providing emergency response support, and/or participating in investigations following incidents and accidents.
- Significant experience is defined as more than 2 years of experience.

**Condition of Employment**:
Reliability Status

**Language Requirements**:
English

Information on language requirements and self-assessment tests

**Assessment Criteria**:
**Technical Competencies**:

- Knowledge of at least one of the following areas: the Canada Labour Code Part II and/or the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, including applicable directives, standards and guidelines, and their related federal, provincial, and municipal regulations and policies.
- Ability