Health, Safety & Environment Coordinator
Job in
Halifax Regional Municipality, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Listing for:
BGIS
Full Time
position
Listed on 2026-01-23
Job specializations:
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Healthcare
Healthcare Management, Healthcare Compliance, Healthcare Administration
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Halifax Regional MunicipalityWho We Are
BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.
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SUMMARY
The Health, Safety, and Environment Coordinator coordinates environmental and health program processes and activities to assist the team in maintaining compliance, mitigating and managing environmental, health and safety risks and improving related performance. This position is more required to manage environmental issues although some health and safety tasks can be assigned to the coordinator.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Coordination
Acts as the first point-of-contact for environmental and health inquiries and incidents.Provides guidance to team members on environmental and health matters, and escalates inquiries, where appropriateCoordinates the implementation of environmental, health and safety programs along with related processes, procedures and resourcesCoordinates environmental, health and safety activities including but not limited to attending tenant OSH committee meetings, attending environmental committee meetings and activities, undertaking incident investigation and resolution, completing equipment and systems registration, developing emergency response procedures and business continuity planning activities, completing and delivering training, completing annual management system re-registration, managing data and generating reports, and conducting environmental compliance audits.Researches environmental, health and safety matters; provides findings and recommendations.Maintains and assists with the creation of environmental, health and safety documentation including but not limited to plans, processes, forms, logbooks, and procedures.Create and maintain documentation including but not limited to instruction sheets, checklists, forms, and training materials.Support construction activity teams (Projects and O&M) by creating, distributing, verifying and maintaining documentation such as work instructions, checklists, training materialsConducts regular inspections of facilities to mitigate any Environmental regulatory issues and/or Health and Safety Concerns before an incident or service call is received.Maintains business continuity and emergency management plans and proceduresParticipates in field inspections, job observations, health, safety and environment audits and other types of reviews for the purpose of monitoring compliance to environmental and health regulations and identifying risks. Provides findings about risks and suggestions for improvement.Incident Investigation, Resolution & Reduction
Assists in the investigation and resolution of incidents including root-cause analysis and providing probable causes of incidents and recommendations for resolutionCoordinates the implementation of corrective and preventative measuresAssists in the identification and analysis of trends. Communicates observations and provides suggestions for incident reduction measuresAudit Compliance, Data Maintenance & Reporting
Maintains all environmental, health and safety data including but not limited to incident data, and regulatory and process compliance data within applicable databases and all other types of information storage systemsAssists in the audit of compliance records and all other environmental, health and safety dataPrepares and distributes various environmental, health and safety related reports including but not limited to incident reportsExperience with database development, programing and maintenance considered an assetOther duties as assignedKNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Strong background in environmental management system development and administration, with knowledge of environmental regulations and environmental compliance auditing an asset.Certification in one or…
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