Hse Coordinator

**Employer**: EllisDon Corporation

**Position**:Health, Safety & Environment Coordinator

**Terms of Employment**:Full-time / Permanent

**Location**:Vancouver, British Columbia

**Employment Address**:650 W 41st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 2M9***

**Hours of Work**:40 hours/week

**Language**:English

**Benefits**: Eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or salary increases in accordance with company policy. Eligible for extended medical insurance, dental insurance, disability insurance and pension plan.

**Salary**: $40.86 CAD / hour

**Nature and Scope**:
As a dedicated health, safety & environmental coordinator and with your proactive approach to establishing and maintaining safe working relationships, you play a key role in the promotion of the EllisDon Core Values

**Duties**:

- Be responsible for site specific safety orientation, job site inspections and accident/incident reports to ensure that equipment materials and production processes do not present a safety or health hazard to employees
- Monitor employees and subcontractors on site to ensure compliance to health and safety procedures, including standard operating procedures, policies and training as well as escalate issues to leadership for resolution
- Proactively identify and prevent hazardous situations and take necessary measures to correct them in addition to participating in investigations of safety concerns, incidents and accidents
- Act as a first aid attendant and be responsible to coordinate emergency response at the workplace.
- Organize and conduct training programs on issues of workplace safety including but not limited to: WHMIS, Fall Protection, Personal Protection Equipment, CPR/First Aid, Emergency Response and Security.
- Lead, maintain, and educate all site staff on creating a safety first culture and to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation and regulations
- Review of subcontractors’ pre-construction safety submittals and ensure enforcement of procedures on government health and safety standards/regulations
- Review and file subcontractors’ weekly safety submittals
- Effectively compile weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly project health and safety statistics to help identify trends or required actions to ensure the health and safety of the workplace.
- Attend client meetings to update the client on safety
- Be a resource to the various subcontractors and visitors where applicable.

**Requirements**:

- You have a minimum of 7-10 years of safety construction experience (Institutional, Commercial, Residential, or Civil Projects)
- You have the ability to delegate and influence others to follow safety rules and regulations
- You are working towards, or are already certified under the Occupational Health & Safety Act/Regulations with experience working on a construction site
- Occupational First Aid Certificate (OFA L2 minimum, with certified Transportation Endorsement) - mandatory
- You hold a Construction Safety Officer certificate, or are working towards completion of the National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO) certificate for British Columbia.
- Construction Safety Coordinator Gold Seal certified and/or CRSP designation would be considered an asset
- International certification (NEBOSH, ISO 45001, IGC, etc) would be considered an asset
- Experience with the Certificate of Recognition (COR) Program
- Fall Protection expertise

**Working Conditions**:

- Exposure to moderately adverse and undesirable environmental conditions. Some health and safety risks. May require safety equipment and precautions.
- Work requires heavy physical exertion, effort and strain. Forces exerted are equivalent to lifting between 10 to 25 kilograms/20 - 50 pounds