Job Description

Your Opportunity

Join a transformative rail and infrastructure project where safety is more than a requirement-it's a core value. As a key member of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) team, you will help shape and strengthen a proactive safety culture across complex construction environments. Working closely with project leaders, contractors, and stakeholders, you will champion innovative HSW initiatives, influence safe work practices, and drive continuous improvement in safety performance. This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact by fostering collaboration, promoting industry best practices, and helping ensure every worker returns home safely each day while contributing to the successful delivery of a landmark infrastructure project.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Conduct regular field audits and inspections in accordance with project safety assurance plan requirements.
• Ensure corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) arising from incidents, observations, audits, and inspections are tracked and completed in a timely manner.
• Conduct safety assurance reviews to verify that industry best practices are consistently implemented across applicable project activities.
• Prepare required reports and provide data inputs for project reporting.
• Collect and maintain records required for evaluating the effectiveness of safety programs.
• Compile project-wide HSW KPIs and leading indicators and report findings to the Safety Director or designate to support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ensure timely reporting and investigation of incidents.
• Verify that corrective and preventive actions are effectively implemented and sustained.
• Develop and deliver best-practice guides, training materials, presentations, and briefing packages tailored to the needs of specific project stakeholders.
• Perform additional duties as required to support project deliverables and key activities during Annual Service Plans.

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Experience in underground construction safety, particularly tunneling projects.
• Experience conducting field safety audits and inspections.
• Extensive knowledge of occupational health and safety legislation.
• Experience auditing Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.
• Strong technical knowledge of safety programs, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in safety training, incident investigations, safety performance measurement, and injury management.
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders, build consensus, and work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities while meeting project schedules and deadlines.
• Experience working on multidisciplinary rail and transit projects and/or complex civil infrastructure projects in brownfield and urban environments with adjacent infrastructure.
• High level of integrity, accountability, dependability, and professionalism, with a demonstrated commitment to fulfilling responsibilities and obligations.

Education and Experience

• Degree or diploma in Occupational Health and Safety or a related field is preferred.
• Professional designation or certification preferred (e.g., NCSO, CRSP, CHSC, or equivalent).
• Minimum five (5) years of direct onsite construction safety management experience.
• Experience working on railway, transit, or major infrastructure construction projects.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Pay Transparency: In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are provided for positions in locations where required. Please note, the final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible. Actual compensation for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on the agreed number of working hours per week.

Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees (working at least 20 hours per week) will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a wellness program, health care spending account, wellness spending account, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.