Senior Safety Auditor

Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

The Safety and Operations, GO & UP Division is seeking a Senior Safety Auditor. The Safety Auditor provides an integral function in Safety Auditing at Metrolinx, by performing continuous improvement activities to provide assurance to interested parties that appropriate health and safety controls are implemented, and effective in managing and/or mitigating risk ety Auditors are essential for both operational and occupational safety, to keep employees, public, passengers and contractors safe, improve operational efficiency and reduce the risk of incidents and accidents.

The role assesses regulatory compliance and verifies conformance with established program or contractual requirements. By delivering on the Safety Audit Program, the Safety Auditor directly contributes to the achievement of the Metrolinx corporate safety strategic goals and objectives.

• Leads, organizes and conducts objective safety audits of the adequacy and effectiveness of safety management systems, processes, procedures and internal risk/safety controls, with the objective of identifying and mitigating safety risks. Implements assurance activities under the corporate Safety Audit Program framework by performing safety audits in conformance with safety divisional standards and industry best practices for principles of auditing, including ISO 45001 and ISO 19011.
• Leads a matrix-style safety audit team, inclusive of team members from internal operational business units and external technical specialists. Schedules and plans to meet planned deadlines and deliverables for each assigned audit; coaches less‑experienced team members to develop their auditing skills and facilitate audit completion and performs preliminary reviews of draft audit reports.
• Develops detailed objectives and a scope statement for each assigned safety audit and defines measurable criteria, develops process maps and audit documentation to facilitate audit activities.
• Prepares and organizes audit plans, schedules, checklists, sampling plans, meetings, interview questions and other audit documentation related to safety audits; selects appropriate audit evaluation methods, collects, verifies, and records verifiable audit evidence and compiles audit reports and presents findings as required.
• Determines suitable safety audit criteria including but not limited to applicable policies, procedures, standards, legal/regulatory requirements, safety management system requirements, contractual requirements, standard requirement, or other planned arrangements. Leads the evidence collection activities of the safety audit, ensuring that all relevant evidence is assembled.
• Identifies and defines safety audit findings of non‑compliance and/or conformance by risk, including areas of concern and opportunities for improvement and recommends improved risk controls and business safety processes.
• Prepares complete, objective and accurate draft safety audit reports, including findings based on the defined criteria and recommends risk and/or safety control enhancements. Presents draft safety audit reports that follow safety divisional standards and require minimal corrections on review for accuracy and supportability to the Manager, Safety Audit.
• Supports the continuous improvement of safety at Metrolinx through the systematic evaluation of the effectiveness, adequacy and suitability of health and safety programs, procedures, and processes against defined safety criteria.
• Leads safety audit compliance activities required by the Enterprise Safety Management System and other external audit functions and…