Occupational Health and Safety Advisor

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Work environment

The Occupational Health and Safety(OHS) advisor works with a very diverse client group all over the Pacific Region, in BC and the Yukon. The advisor role includes:
• DFO’s Health &Safety ( H&S) professionals serve and advise an extremely diverse occupational population. From Lighthouse Keepers to Fishery Officers, from Research Scientists and field Biologists to Worksite Labours, From Seagoing personnel to Fish hatchery technicians and from Office employees to the Regional Management Team.
• Workplace safety at every one of our 155+ staffed Pacific Region locations involves supporting our employees and managers through the provision of timely advice based on the Canada Labour Code, the Canada Occupational H&S Regulations and Department Policy in a number of areas; Helicopter Safety, Firearms for non-enforcement staff, Workplace Inspections, Departmental Diving and most recently based on the COHS Regulation 20, Violence in The Workplace as well as many other standards and guidelines.
• DFO has a large amount of staff who work away from ‘the office’ interacting with the public and we have ‘the public’ coming onto our worksites in order to view the work we do in promoting good stewardship of our fishery resources. Both of these situations require DFO employees to have a good understanding of their H&S responsibilities when they are working with non-employees and the OHS Advisor is there to provide answers to the questions they often have.
• DFO OHS Advisors work with our many OHS Committees and our OHS Representatives throughout the Pacific Region. This calls for providing advice to our committees and reps as questions arise.
• Delivering Health & Safety Training to our employees calls for traveling around the Pacific Region. This is a great way to learn about the diverse work our staff accomplish everyday as well as an excellent opportunity to meet our clients and discuss the Health & Safety issues they encounter at their locations.
• DFO Pacific Region Health & Safety spends a great deal of time networking with our National Colleagues as we continue to grow and standardise the program. This requires teleconferences and face to face meetings with all of the OHS Advisors from each of the regions in the country. This is an excellent opportunity for both learning and teaching Health & Safety concepts which have worked well in other locations within DFO.

Intent of the process

The candidate pool resulting from this selection process may be used to staff similar positions on an indeterminate or term basis throughout the Pacific Region.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Through screening questions, we will ask you to tell us about how you meet these criteria.

Education:
• Successful completion of secondary school education or an acceptable combination of education, training, and/or experience

Experience:
• Experience in delivering a health and safety program
• Experience in delivering training
• Experience in providing advice and guidance to management on a range of health and safety issues

These criteria are “nice to have” and may be considered for your selection. Through additional screening questions, please tell us if you meet these as well.

• Post-Secondary education in a field relevant to the position
• Experience conducting audits and management reviews within the context of an Occupational Health and Safety program

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

You must have these to be considered for a position but we’ll test them later:

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of federal health and safety legislations, regulations, and standards
Abilities:
• Ability to communicate effectively orally
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing
• Ability to analyze, evaluate, and present solutions to problems/issues
• Ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines
• Ability to interpret and apply legislation, policies, or procedures
Competencies:
• Demonstrating integrity and respect
• Thinking things through
• Working effectively with others
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

•In an emergency, employee may be expected to work in an emergency operations centre for extended periods of time. The employee may be required to undertake standby duties.
•The employee will be required to travel for work-related purposes.
•The employee may be required to work overtime at anytime, including evenings and weekends, without previous notice.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Security Clearance
Requirement to travel for work
Willingness to work overtime

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the targeted groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

Depending on the position being staffed, any of the asset qualifications may also be deemed as an essential qualification and only candidates and persons with a priority entitlement who possess those qualifications will be considered for that specific vacancy. Please indicate if you possess any of the asset qualification in your application.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.