Senior Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Advisor

About the position

Duties

The Senior Occupational Health and Safety Advisor provides strategic and operational advice, guidance, and support on a broad range of occupational health and safety matters. The position is responsible for interpreting and applying legislation, regulations, directives, and departmental policies; supporting managers and workplace health and safety committees; and contributing to the continuous improvement of departmental occupational health and safety programs and services.

In this position you will:

• Provide expert advice, guidance, and recommendations to managers, employees, workplace committees, and representatives on the interpretation and application of occupational health and safety legislation, regulations, directives, policies, and programs.
• Lead the management of complex occupational health and safety files, including hazardous occurrence investigations and workers' compensation matters, ensuring timely follow-up, quality control, and regulatory compliance.
• Analyze occupational health and safety information, trends, and emerging issues; identify deficiencies and risks; and develop recommendations to improve program effectiveness and prevent future occurrences.
• Provide strategic advice and briefings to management on significant, sensitive, or nationally impactful occupational health and safety issues and support informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across the department to implement occupational health and safety initiatives, promote consistent national service delivery, and support the achievement of team and organizational priorities.
• Contribute to the development, promotion, and delivery of occupational health and safety programs, training, tools, procedures, and best practices that foster safe, healthy, inclusive, and respectful workplaces.

Work environment

Possibility to work from any ECCC Human Resources Branch (HRB) office across Canada.

Intent of the process

• The intent of the process is to fill one (1) position, with an English essential linguistic profile requirement.It is anticipated that there will be more positions to be filled with a CBC/CBC linguistic requirement.
• A pool of partially or fully assessed candidates could be established to staff similar positions at the same group and level, with a various linguistic requirement, on an indeterminate or temporary basis within Environment and Climate Change Canada.
• Positions to be filled

1