Interim Health, Safety and Environment Regional Manager

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We also develop custom, turnkey solutions to help reach the desired outcomes. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada's infrastructure and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal.

WE BUILD FOR LIFE.

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork and we are committed to ensuring that our teams have everything they need to succeed. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do and, as a result, our award-winning safety culture has a record that's well above industry standards.

At Modern Niagara, you will work alongside values-driven, safety-conscious, and high-impact teams in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment. Here, your knowledge, skills, and excellent service will help ensure that the buildings that make up Canada's infrastructure fulfill the needs they were set out to meet.

Modern Niagara is one of Canada's Best Managed Companies and is a recipient of SMACNA's Safety Excellence Award Program (SSEAP) - Canada and the Canadian Occupational Safety (COS) Magazine's Gold Winner for Canada's Safest Employers Award in the Building and Construction category and Excellence Winner for Canada's Best Health + Safety Culture Award as well as Canada's Best Health + Safety Leader Award.

The role of the Interim HSE Regional Manager is to support their HSE Team through mentorship, coaching and encouragement. The Interim HSE Regional Manager will be an organized leader with analytic and problem-solving skills to help lead the organization in reducing and eliminating risk. Then incumbent will develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of the health, safety and environmental management system; as well as influence a positive and preventative safety culture, that can communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, professional development, and measure performance based on key performance indictors for their regional HSE team.
• Collaborate and align with operations to identify and determine HSE Regional objectives and goals
• Implement and maintain the HSEMS (Health, Safety, and Environmental Management System) within the region
• Establish a process to monitor, measure, analyze the effectiveness of the HSEMS within the region
• Ensure effective and relevant HSE communication to all internal and external stakeholders
• Support the implementation and maintenance of the training program within the region to ensure competency and awareness
• Leadership engagement to influence commitment from all MN management to comply with all HSE requirements
• Partnering with operations on HSE messaging and communications strategy
• Reviewing the completion and quality of all HSE submitted documents and providing constructive feedback to encourage continuous improvement
• Attending all HSE applicable meetings
• Supporting operations and Senior Leadership in managing risk by:
  • analyzing and interpreting data to identify opportunities of improvement
  • enhancing our safe work procedures by utilizing lessons learned
  • analyze HSE training needs and provide recommendations of training to ensure competency and awareness of workers
  • consulting for operations on new project site specific safety plans
  • advising on safety topics
  • developing and implementing incident and claim management process
  • Supporting the VP and Director of HSE with any additional tasks

Qualifications and Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Occupational Health and Safety, Environment Science or similar related work experience. Relevant certifications such as CRSP, OHSC, CSC or CSP would also be considered an asset
• Proven track record of being a leader / managing HSE teams or programs
• Ability to oversee HSE programs and initiatives
• Comprehensive understanding of industry specific safety regulations and standards; as well as in-depth local, regional and national HSE regulation compliance requirements
• Experience with safety audits, inspections and risk management
• Proficiency in HSE management software (ie Noggin)
• Experience developing and delivering HSE training programs
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong leadership capabilities with high ethical standards
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment

At Modern Niagara, we recognize the value of fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization and are committed to eliminating barriers faced by members of equity seeking groups (women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, people with disabilities, and new immigrants) in the construction industry. Our DEI vision is to build an organization where everyone has access to the same opportunities, experience equitable outcomes, and can thrive and reach their full potential.

We value the diversity of the people we hire and serve. Modern Niagara is an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please advise us so that suitable accommodations can be made. We can be reached at careers@modernniagara.com.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.