Siemens Environmental Health & Safety Specialist 

Canada, Ontario 

328156931

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

What will you do?

• Support various aspects of new initiatives rolled out within Siemens EHS to meet company objectives.
• Champion the implementation and maintenance of Health, Safety, Environment programs to meet Ontario Certificate of Recognition (COR), as well as mandated customer / project requirements.
• Implement and Monitor project safety plans, policies, job safety analysis, safe work practices, conduct hazard / risk assessments, incident investigation as required.
• Provide support and ensure all employees and contractors comply with established EHS policies and programs.
• Assist in incident investigations and monitor corrective actions identified during the root cause analysis for effective implementation.

• Collaborate with all levels of organization and assist in executing and promoting companies EHS program.
• Travel to the various customer/project sites for project meetings, audits, and incident management as required.
• Ability to learn and work in high pace environment.
• Perform Internal safety audits and/or monitoring on rules compliance (PMRC).
• Assist with the development and preparation of safety communications (e.g. bulletins, safety advisory memo).
• Act as a facilitator for joint health and safety committees.
• Accompany the Metrolinx TPO officer during field audit: Address and escalate their concern right away, understand Metrolinx expectation and be proactive.
• Ensuring field representation to evaluate compliance with organizational, government health and safety, environmental standards and client’s requirements.
• Audit workers in the field for certifications records.
• Identifies opportunities to improve safety and environmental performance and makes recommendations based on findings.
• Conduct regular inspections of facilities to ensure compliance with hazards and safety guidelines. Inspections include but not limited to fire extinguisher, first aid, lock out tag out, PPE, equipment.
• Working outside with inclement weather.

What will you need to succeed?

• Degree or diploma in Environmental Health Safety program or industry recognized program with EHS related certification is a plus.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in Occupational, Health and Safety role in area of: railway, construction, transportation, or industrial sector.
• Experience in Railway is essential
• Preference for experienced Canadian Railway Operating Rules qualified candidate.
• Preference for experience candidate in conducting CROR Compliance Audit in the field.
• Understanding of Ontario Certificate of Recognition (COR) program requirements and COR auditor.
• Candidates must have excellent organizational and communication skills (both oral and written), customer focus, and agility, with the ability to present and explain health and safety topics;
• Ability to analyze and evaluate options, solutions, and exercise judgment in making sound decisions.
• Experience in incident investigations, root cause analysis, workplace inspections, hazard analysis, risk assessment, safe work and best preventative practices or job safety analysis development, employee relations.
• Working knowledge of MS Office, excel and other software tools.
• Self-driven, discrete, diligent with great attention to detail.
• Valid driver’s license mandatory.

In Canada, Siemens Mobility has been providing solutions to the transportation industry for more than 40 years, including railway infrastructure maintenance services on the rail networks in Quebec and Ontario, light rail vehicles in Edmonton and Calgary, trainsets delivered to VIA Rail Canada, new trainsets for Ontario Northland that will bring back Northeastern passenger rail to Ontario that are expected to be delivered in 2026, an order for locomotives for Montreal’s exo and the rail electrification and overall system maintenance of the light rail transit network in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our footprint also includes dispatching services operated from Dorval, Québec, to more than 25 railways across Canada covering over 3,400 miles of track.