Health & Safety Specialist - Oakville, Canada - Atura Power

Atura Power
Atura Power
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Oakville, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Introduction
Atura Power is the largest fleet of combined cycle power plants in Ontario. Our facilities are located across the province including Napanee, Halton Hills, Toronto, and Windsor.

Guided by our values, we are inclusive, we work safely, we are flexible, we look for ways to do things better, we always act with integrity.

Join the team that powers the province


Job Summary


Reporting to the Manager, Environmental, Health & Safety, the
Health & Safety Specialist will be responsible for supporting and monitoring Health & Safety throughout Atura Power's business & operations.

This position is primarily located in our corporate head office in Oakville and will require regular travel to our fleet of plants across southern Ontario.


Responsibilities

  • Provide Health and Safety support across Atura Power assets including emergency management programs.
  • Support the implementation and maintenance of a Health, Safety & Environment managed system.
  • Keep abreast of internal and external changes that affect Atura Power's health & safety strategy. Incorporate the required changes into affected programs.
  • Support compliance to federal and provincial regulations, local bylaws and corporate policies.
  • Actively engage personnel in a supporting role to develop effective safety solutions for identified hazards and challenges.
  • Perform a leading role in safety process implementation including rolling out and providing training for new or modified procedures/policies.
  • Respond to unplanned safety events.
  • Maintain open communications with applicable safety partners across Atura.
  • Develop and maintain Site Specific Safety Plans, Emergency Response Plans etc.
  • Support process safety reviews.
  • Actively participate in Health Safety & Environment related meetings (JHSC, Pre-Job, safety standdown, lessons learned, incident response meetings, etc.)
  • Schedule, lead or assist with planned Health, Safety & Environment inspections and audits.
  • Utilize and coach others in the use of the Environment, Health, Safety Management Incident reporting system.
  • Analyze Health Safety & Environment KPI's data to provide consolidated reports and develop plans to deal with lagging indicators.
  • Provide root cause analysis expertise and lead incident investigations.
  • Assist with identifying and tracking corrective actions.
  • Address inspection, audit, and incident investigation findings.
  • Evaluation of and active participation in job safety analyses process.
  • Participate on scope of work and bid process with contractors / projects
  • Management of the online contractor and employee orientation program
  • Support and develop the health and safety requirements for business development initiatives and projects


The Health & Safety Specialist may participate in planned outages to provide safety oversight though-out the pre-outage planning stages, during the outage, and post-outage review.


Duties may include but are not limited to:

  • Attending all outage preplanning meetings
  • Conducting and documenting the Contractor kickoff meeting and daily prejob meetings
  • Reviewing JSAs, Contractor safety plans etc. and advising
  • Reviewing Contractor Site Specific Safety Plans (one time event)
  • Performing Contractor safety orientations
  • Monitoring Contractor safety
  • Notifying Contractors of any observed safety incidents and reporting requirements
  • Attending a representative number of Contractor safety meetings
  • Performing a Contractor safety audit as required
  • In conjunction with Operations perform a Work Protection Permit audit
  • Providing safety related lessons learned at the end of the outage
  • Participate in developing an outage site specific safety plan in advance of each scheduled/planned outage

Qualifications & Education

  • Technical expertise in safety with strong interpersonal skills to effectively work in a collaborative team environment.
  • Knowledge of applicable provincial and federal legislation.
  • Postsecondary education in the disciplines of Health and Safety.
  • Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in power generation or industrial Health and Safety.
  • Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation, or equivalent safety certification would be an asset.
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