Who 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. Further information is available at
SUMMARY
The Health and Safety Coordinator coordinates environmental, health, safety, and security program processes and activities to assist the account team in maintaining compliance, mitigating and managing environmental, health, safety, and security-related risks and improving related performance.
KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Program Coordination
- Acts as the first point-of-contact for environmental, health, safety, and security inquiries and incidents
- Provides guidance to account team members on environmental, health, safety, and security matters, and escalates inquiries, where appropriate
- Coordinates the implementation of environmental, health, safety, and security programs along with related processes, procedures, and resources
- Coordinates environmental, health, safety, and security activities including but not limited to health and safety committee meetings and activities, incident investigation and resolution, security clearances, equipment and systems registration, emergency response procedures and business continuity planning activities, training, return-to-work, annual management system re-registration, compliance audit
- Researches environmental, health, safety, and security matters, provides findings and recommendations
- Maintains and assists with the creation of environmental, health, and safety documentations including but not limited to plans, processes, procedures
- Creates and maintains documentations including but not limited to instruction sheets, checklists, forms, training materials
- Maintains business continuity and emergency management plans and procedures
- Participates in field inspections, job observations; health, safety, and environment audits and other types of reviews for the purpose of monitoring compliance to health, safety, and environment requirements 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 resolution
- Coordinates the implementation of corrective and preventative measures
- Assists in the identification and analysis of trends
- Communicates observations and provides suggestions for incident reduction measures
- Audit Compliance, Data Maintenance & Reporting
- Maintains all environmental, health, safety, and security-related data including but not limited to incident data, criminal record checks, compliance data within applicable databases and all other types of information storage systems
- Assists in the audit of compliance records and all other environmental, health, safety, and security data
- Prepares and distributes various environmental, health, safety, and security-related reports including but not limited to incident reports
- Other duties as assigned
KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
College degree completed
Certification in one or more of the following: Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety, Certificate in Environmental Management through a Community College; or University degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences
1 to 3 years of environmental, health, safety, and security work experience
Understanding of environmental, health, and safety regulatory requirements
Understanding of emergency management requirements
Strong organizational and coordination skills along with the ability to coordinate multiple requirements (processes, activities, projects, emergency response procedures, etc) simultaneously
Strong communication skills along with some ability to influence stakeholders
Strong administrative skills along with the ability to maintain and report accurate data
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to exercise good judgment
Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation
Demonstrates an interest in attaining one or more of the following would be considered an asset:
- Safety: Canadian Registered Safety Professional from Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals
- Certified Health & Safety Consultant from Canadian Society of Safety Engineering
- Security: Physical Security Professional from ASIS International
- Certified Protection Professional from ASIS International
- Business Continuity: Certified Business Continuity Planner from Business Continuity Management Institute
At BGIS, we believe that diversity and inclusion are key business drivers, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success!