Safety Supervisor (Afternoon Shift)
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What you’ll do
- Conduct site inspections, audits, and field safety verifications.
- Support pre-job planning, hazard assessments, FLRAs, and permit-to-work processes.
- Coach supervisors and employees on hazard recognition, safe work practices, and risk management.
- Lead and support investigations of incidents, injuries, near misses, property damage, and environmental events.
- Track corrective actions to completion and verify effectiveness.
- Monitor high-risk work activities, including confined space entry, working at heights, critical lifts, excavations, hot work, and energy isolation.
- Coordinate safety training, emergency response exercises, and awareness initiatives.
- Support contractor safety management, including performance monitoring and compliance verification.
- Prepare and communicate HSE performance metrics and reports.
- Provide leadership and mentorship to Field Safety Advisors while partnering with internal stakeholders and external contractors to strengthen safety performance.
What you’ll bring
- Diploma or Degree in Occupational Health & Safety or a related field.
- 5+ years of safety experience in construction, industrial, manufacturing, marine, or heavy industry environments.
- 3+ years of leadership or supervisory experience.
- NCSO, CRSP, CHSC, or equivalent professional designation preferred.
- Strong knowledge of incident investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action management.
- Experience conducting risk assessments, hazard identification, and control verification.
- Proficiency in safety audits, inspections, and regulatory compliance programs.
- Experience developing and supporting emergency response plans and initiatives.
- Knowledge of contractor safety management and permit-to-work systems.
- Sound understanding of occupational health, industrial hygiene, and workplace exposure controls.
- Working knowledge of WorkSafeBC regulations and COR certification requirements.
- Strong communication, coaching, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to access active construction and industrial worksites and perform field-based safety activities.
- Ability to wear required PPE and travel between multiple work locations as needed.
- Why you’ll love working here
- This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come.
- In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching, this role provides you a very competitive salary in line with the successful candidate’s experience.
- We also provide a best-in-class health and wellness benefits package for this position, including such things as full health care (e.g. unlimited physiotherapy), dental, vision, life insurance, medical leave coverage, parental leave coverage, childcare benefit partnership, Personal Spending Account, and an Employee Family Assistance Program (EFAP).
- Free on-site gym.
- Parking is included.
- The estimated salary for this position is $112,500 - $137,500 plus a shift premium for the afternoon shift. In determining final salary, Seaspan considers many factors including the successful Candidate’s skillset and experience as well as position location and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.
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Preferred Qualifications
- NCSO, CRSP, CHSC, or equivalent professional designation preferred.
- In addition to an annual bonus and pension plan matching, this role provides you a very competitive salary in line with the successful candidate’s experience.
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