HSE Specialist

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Role Summary

The Health and Safety (HSE) Specialist supports and strengthens a preventative safety culture within Modern Niagara’s Building Services business. The role works to reduce and eliminate risks of injury and illness by providing expert guidance, site engagement, inspections, training, incident support, and documentation management. Success is achieved through proactive hazard identification, strong partnerships with field and operational teams, and consistent application of Modern Niagara’s safety standards.

Why This Role Matters to Modern Niagara

A strong and proactive safety culture is essential to protecting people, maintaining customer trust, and ensuring operational excellence. The HSE Specialist directly supports this by advising leaders, coaching workers, identifying risks, and elevating Modern Niagara’s safety performance. This role is integral to delivering safe, compliant, and successful projects while reducing incidents, claims, and operational disruption.

Key Impact / Purpose

• Strengthen and maintain Modern Niagara’s preventative safety culture across Building Services.
• Support field teams and leaders through proactive engagement, inspections, and coaching.
• Reduce incidents and claims through data analysis, recommendations, and continuous improvement of safe work procedures.
• Provide reliable guidance on training needs, hazard mitigation, and site‑specific safety planning.

Duties and Responsibilities

Support operations and Senior Leadership in risk management by :

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Compensation and Benefits

This is a replacement position. Expected annual compensation : $65,000 – $80,000.

Modern Niagara offers a competitive total compensation package including :

About Modern Niagara

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure — and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal. We build for life.

Our Culture & Values

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do, and our award‑winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Modern Niagara

We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization where everyone has access to opportunity, feels a sense of belonging, and can thrive. We actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity‑seeking groups (including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and are committed to a barrier‑free hiring process.

If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at careers@modernniagara.com so we can make appropriate arrangements.

We appreciate every applicant’s interest in joining Modern Niagara. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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