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Scandinavian Building Services has been a Canadian leader in retail and commercial cleaning for the last 60 years. Starting as a small family owned and operated business in Edmonton Alberta in 1982 to offering full service janitorial and building maintenance across Canada today. We attribute our success to staying true to our core values of Service, Motivate, Respect, and Connect. As we continue to grow we are looking to add a Health and Safety Advisor to the Scandi Family! This is a permanently remote position with 2 days a week site visits across GTA.
We are open to a few different candidate profiles here; An entry level Health and Safety Administrator looking to move up in their career eager to learn. An experienced Office Manager who wears many hats in a smaller company has excellent communication skills and can hit the ground running. Finally, someone who has worked in Health and Safety field for a while but is looking for a more formalized career path or education. We will pay for education and Occupational Health and Safety Certification for the right candidate we’re happy to invest in them.
This position is a full time permanently remote position Monday to Friday 8am – 4:30pm. There will be travel involved 2 days a week to sites within 1 hour of the GTA and overnight travel to Northern Ontario, Atlantic, and Quebec every quarter.
What’s in it for you:
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Awarded one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies: We’re committed to a high level standard of excellence for both clients and our Scandi Family.
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Growth Opportunities: A place to hang your hat. We want our employees to grow with us long term.
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Stability and Job Security: Even through tough economic times we’ve continued to steadily grow, and we aren’t slowing down any time soon. With a strong national presence across Canada
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Family First Culture: We are and have always been a family owned and operated business. We have family friendly events year-round and affectionately call our team members the Scandi Family.
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Benefits: We offer a comprehensive medical and dental plan as well as personal days off.
What your day to day will look like:
Reporting into the Director of Health and Safety you will be working from home with site visits 2 days a week. This role will be supporting Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic depending on new client launches or audits there can be outside of province travel of up to 30% of the time.
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Hazard Assessments, Inspections, and Audits; Conduct Inspections at regional offices and warehouses including fire extinguisher inspections, and weekly site visits for equipment inspections developing site specific hazard assessments. Support the Health and Safety team with internal and external audit requirements including Certificate of Recognition (COR) and Cleaning Industry Management Standards (CIMS)
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Incident Investigations; Investigate incidents and near miss events in On, QC, and Atlantic. Developing appropriate corrective and preventative actions to prevent recurrence and present findings to our Operations teams
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Coaching and Training; Facilitate training for WHMIS, health and safety orientations and other internal safety courses as required. Participate in the development and revision of safety training programs. Train Operations Teams to complete Field Level Hazard Assessments, Fall Protection Plans, and Equipment Pre-Use Inspections
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Administration; Assemble and distribute all necessary health and safety documentation including manuals, posters, policies etc. Enter records into software system ensuring all supporting documentation, tracking metrics, and data is up to date and maintained
What you’ll need to succeed:
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2-5 years experience in a role where you have had exposure to Health and Safety responsibilities
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Excellent communication skills and building interpersonal relationships
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Skilled in researching and understanding occupational health and safety legislation
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Intermediate experience in MS Office and familiarity with Safety Management Systems
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Valid drivers license and reliable vehicle to travel to multiple job sites as required
Our interview process:
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20 minute preliminary phone interview with our Recruiter
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10-20 minute administrative knowledge test
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30 minute MS Teams video interview
At Scandinavian Building Services we are an equal opportunity employer who values a diverse workplace. We recognize the strength that comes from different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives and welcome all candidates to apply. We feel it is important that all people have access and opportunity to be employed, to be valued and to be respected.
