HSE Field Advisor

CAM Industrial Solutions

$80K — $95K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 3 years of industrial HSE experience, preferably in maintenance or similar environments.
  • Strong knowledge of Alberta Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
  • Experience in conducting field audits and incident investigations.
  • Excellent communication and coaching skills to influence safe practices.
  • Ability to work independently and make sound decisions on dayshift.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

  • Promote and enforce CAM's safety culture and positive safety behaviours on-site.
  • Conduct field inspections, audits, and observations in maintenance areas.
  • Engage with crews in start-of-shift meetings on work scopes and hazards.
  • Verify compliance with safe work practices and client requirements.
  • Coach employees on safe work expectations while conducting observations.
  • Provide HSE guidance on day-to-day maintenance activities.
  • Respond to incidents and assist with investigations and corrective actions.

Benefits

  • Dayshift schedule on a 4x10 rotating shift with potential for additional hours.
  • Opportunity to work closely with site leadership and teams.
  • Involvement in high-risk, dynamic industrial environments with diverse duties.
  • Chance to influence and reinforce positive safety behaviours on-site.
Full Job Description
Preferred Requirement: NCSO designation is preferred and considered a strong asset for this role.

Position Summary

CAM Industrial Solutions is seeking an experienced HSE Field Advisor to provide maintenance coverage support at our Fort Saskatchewan site. This is a field-focused dayshift role responsible for supporting safe maintenance execution, coaching frontline teams, and helping ensure alignment with CAM, client, and regulatory HSE expectations.

The successful candidate will work closely with site leadership, supervision, craft personnel, subcontractors, and client representatives to provide visible field engagement, safety verification, incident response support, and ongoing HSE program execution during maintenance and outage preparation activities.

Key Responsibilities

Field Leadership & Safety Oversight
  • Actively promote and reinforce CAM's safety culture, CORE values, and positive field-level safety behaviours.
  • Conduct regular field walks, inspections, audits, and worksite observations across active maintenance areas.
  • Attend start-of-shift meetings and engage directly with crews and supervision on daily work scopes and hazards.
  • Verify compliance with safe work practices, client requirements, permits, procedures, and hazard controls.
  • Review FLHA/PTA quality in the field and coach employees where expectations are not being met.
  • Identify unsafe conditions, at-risk behaviours, or non-compliance items and escalate concerns promptly to supervision.
  • Provide practical HSE coaching to craft personnel, forepersons, and supervisors during maintenance execution.
  • Recognize and reinforce positive safety behaviours, strong hazard recognition, and quality planning practices.

Maintenance Program Support
  • Support day-to-day maintenance activities by providing practical field-level HSE guidance.
  • Assist supervision with planning and verification of safe work execution for routine and non-routine maintenance tasks.
  • Support readiness activities associated with upcoming outage or increased maintenance work scopes.
  • Monitor field conditions and provide timely feedback to supervision on recurring risks, barriers, or improvement opportunities.
  • Participate in toolbox talks, safety stand-downs, and crew-level communication activities as required.

Incident Response & Investigation Support
  • Respond to incidents, injuries, near misses, and high-potential events as required.
  • Support initial scene control, employee care, evidence preservation, and escalation requirements.
  • Assist with witness statements, investigation notes, photos, permit/PTA/FLHA collection, and related documentation.
  • Support corrective action development, communication, follow-up, and closeout tracking.
  • Assist supervision and leadership with injury management and modified work coordination as required.

Auditing, Compliance & Reporting
  • Complete field-level HSE audits, inspections, observations, and verification activities.
  • Monitor compliance with Alberta OHS requirements, client safety expectations, and CAM HSE programs.
  • Maintain accurate records of inspections, observations, audits, coaching conversations, and field activities.
  • Prepare HSE summaries, reports, and documentation for site leadership as required.
  • Track HSE action items, verify completion, and communicate recurring concerns to site leadership.

Required Qualifications
  • Minimum 3 years of industrial HSE experience, preferably in maintenance, construction, turnaround, or outage environments.
  • Strong working knowledge of Alberta Occupational Health and Safety legislation and field-level safety practices.
  • Demonstrated experience conducting field audits, inspections, observations, and incident investigations.
  • Strong communication and coaching skills with the ability to influence safe work practices in the field.
  • Ability to work independently on dayshift and make sound field-level decisions.
  • Strong documentation, organization, and follow-up skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Preferred Assets
  • National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO) designation considered a strong asset.
  • Experience supporting petrochemical, oil and gas, refining, industrial manufacturing, or similar high-risk work environments.
  • Previous maintenance, outage, or turnaround support experience.
  • CRSP designation, or progress toward a professional safety designation, considered an asset.
  • Familiarity with Dow Chemical safety systems, expectations, and permit-to-work processes considered an asset.
  • Experience with digital safety reporting platforms, action tracking, and field observation tools.

Work Environment & Expectations
  • Field-focused role with the majority of time spent in active maintenance work areas.
  • Dayshift schedule on a 4x10s+ rotation, with additional hours as required to support site needs.
  • Must be comfortable working in an active industrial maintenance environment with changing priorities.
  • Role requires frequent walking, field engagement, inspection activity, and interaction with craft, supervision, CAM leadership, client representatives, and subcontractors.

Application Note

Interested candidates should submit a current resume outlining their industrial HSE experience, maintenance or outage support experience, certifications, availability, and relevant field safety leadership experience.

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at CAM Industrial Solutions

More Energy & Utilities Jobs

Find similar HSE Field Advisor jobs: