Health and Safety Officer

The Opportunity

The Health and Safety Officer will work alongside with the national health and safety team and local operations, and be responsible for completing various administrative duties such as, entering data into excel spreadsheets, reporting, uploading monitoring and enforcing compliance with national programs and participating in audits, monthly meetings and inspections.

In addition to safety, this position will also play a role in operations analytics. They will pull data, create weekly, monthly and quietly reports.

Job Duties

• Develop Health and safety stats and trending analysis for local and regional sites
  
• Update safety metrics and administer Safety Incident Tracking database weekly
  
• Performs data entry to ensure quality on incident tracking systems, monitor and set for approval, create reports
  
• Standardize and develop PowerPoint presentations
  
• Provide support and administrative assistance to the health and safety team
  
• Communicate information to employees regarding health and safety policies and procedures
  
• Prepare detailed statistical trend analysis and develop reports and presentations including the preparation of graphs and charts
  
• Responsible for communication on safety bulletin boards and develop other means of communication
  
• Attend, facilitate and participate in weekly safety talks, monthly meetings and audits
  
• Electronic filing to be done on a daily basis keeping up with all trackers to ensure the correct information is available to all members of the team
  
• Processing and finalizing reports to be completed in a timely matter
  
• Manage Safety Sync training Matrix
  
• Assist in safety audits, COR compliance 
  

• Post-secondary education (degree or diploma) in health and safety, or equivalent education and experience
  
• Construction experience would be as asset
  
• 3-5 years’ experience as an Health and Safety Officer or in a related role
  
• Comprehensive/working knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety legislation and industry safety standards
  
• Willing to travel
  
• Valid Driver’s License
  
• Strong computer proficiency including MS Office, power point, excel and computer databases
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, communication and presentation skills
  
• Self-starting proactive individual who can work well independently and in a team environment
  
• A Strong attention to detail
  
• Able to work well under pressure and meet set deadlines
  
• Proven ability to work independently in a busy and varied environment
  
• Energetic, goal oriented, enthusiastic and a positive attitude

GFL Infrastructure Group is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals. We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

GFL Infrastructure Group has the experience, skills and resources required to provide safe, integrated design-build services for your infrastructure and residential projects. We are a single contractor with the in-house capability required to execute complete earthworks, foundation, demolition and civil scopes of work. Our construction services also include the management of your soil remediation and construction waste disposal needs. Once your facility is operational, GFL can continue to service all of its solid and liquid waste needs. By providing a single point of responsibility, GFL Infrastructure Group delivers integrated coordination, smooth transitions between tasks and peace of mind for our clients.

To position every project for success prior to commencement, we also offer clients preparatory pre-construction services. These services include estimating, scope coordination, constructability reviews, scheduling, system and material options analysis, value analysis (engineering) and sustainable material and method analysis.

Our experienced management team of construction professionals and engineers offers more than 270 years of combined construction expertise and industry knowledge. Safe, high-quality execution is our first priority and is incorporated into every stage of what we do — from planning through execution. Our thoroughly trained and experienced supervisors, workers and operators are supported by GFL’s world-class team of Health & Safety Professionals. We ensure that PSIs, hazard analyses, tailgate talks and procedures are integrated into all aspects of the subsurface works we perform. GFL’s comprehensive fleet of equipment is state-of-the-art and maintained to the highest standards.

At Green For Life, we will work together with your team — from the budget and design stages through construction — to provide an optimal solution to your project challenge.