Health & Safety Field Coordinator

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.

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Health & Safety Field Coordinator to join our growing team in the Toronto office. If you are passionate about supporting and cultivating a preventative safety culture that works to reduce or eliminate risk of injury or illness within the workplace, then we want to meet you quickly!

Reporting into the HSE Director, the HSE Field Coordinator is a reliable and knowledgeable resource for workers, supervisors, forepersons, managers and executives to provide support, advice, inspections, training, hazard identification, and document management.

This position will include both in-office work as well as in-field support.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Training: Supporting the facilitation of safety-related training, including Orientation. Review evaluations of training delivery feedback. Coordinate with external training providers and our internal labour managers and workers, scheduling of training. Coordinate, maintain and upload training records in the system.
• On-site Engagement: influence compliance and commitment in the field to all HSE requirements.
• Assisting in document control and data quality and integrity.
• Assisting in the development of HSE communications to support the HSE Strategy.
• Partnering with operations on HSE messaging and communications to MN employees.
• Attending all HSE applicable meetings.
• Supporting the HSE and Risk Management teams in maintaining compliance status across all contractor compliance sites (i.e Avetta, ISNet, etc.).
• Providing support in all required HSE statistical data and documents for prequalification.
• Supporting operations and Senior Leadership in managing risk by:
  
  • Identifying opportunities of improvement through inspections and audits
  • Enhancing our safe work procedures by utilizing lessons learned
  • Providing training recommendations to ensure competency and awareness of workers
  • Consulting for operations on new project site specific safety plans
  • Incident and claim management support
• Administrative Functions:
  • Uploading completed documents into Noggin upon request
  • Booking boardrooms, printing and scanning documents
  • Supporting the HSE Specialists, Regional Managers, and Leadership with other tasks and duties as needed

Qualifications and Experience

• Post-secondary education in Health and Safety or related field. CRSP is an asset.
• 3-5 years of experience within a similar position. Experience within the construction industry would be an asset.
• Demonstrated competency in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Effective communicator with the ability to develop and sustain productive working relationships with employees, subcontractors, and other stakeholders at all levels.
• Well-organized individual with the ability to effectively set and manage competing priorities.
• Sense of prioritization and drive to succeed.
• Comfortable working within a deadline-driven, fast-paced environment.
• Resourceful, energetic, and able to operate independently with confidence.
• Clean driver's license and the ability to travel to job sites if required.
• Strong interest in growing a career within the construction industry.

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

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