OHS Consultant

Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about creating safer, healthier workplaces? Do you thrive on building relationships, solving problems collaboratively, and supporting leaders through meaningful OHS initiatives? If so, this role offers an opportunity to influence safety culture across a diverse range of Government of Alberta (GOA) workplaces.

As an Occupational Health & Safety Consultant (OHSC), you’ll apply your technical expertise and strategic thinking to help ministries strengthen their safety programs, reduce harm, and support employee wellbeing. You’ll join a knowledgeable, collaborative OHS community where learning, professional growth, and cross‑ministry teamwork are at the core of how we operate.

What You Will Do
In this role, reporting to an OHS Team Lead, you will provide comprehensive occupational health and safety consulting services to support ministries in creating safe, healthy, and compliant workplaces. Your key responsibilities include:

•    Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the GOA OHS Program and provide expert interpretation of OHS legislation, standards, policies, and directives. 
•    Lead or support hazard assessments, written practices and procedures, workplace inspections, and broader risk management activities. 
•    Conduct or support investigations into serious and potentially serious incidents, ensure high quality incident reporting, and provide guidance on incident management and WCB related processes. 
•    Work with emergency response teams, including readiness support during Fire Season. 
•    Collect and analyze OHS data to identify trends, develop performance measures, and recommend actions to improve safety outcomes. 
•    Support Health & Safety Committees and participate in OHS community groups involved in program updates and implementation. 
•    Assist with the development and rollout of OHS procedures and practices aligned with legislative requirements. 
•    Provide coaching, training, and subject matter expertise to leaders and employees on their OHS responsibilities, including psychological health and safety, wellness, Duty to Accommodate, and Return to Work processes.

Why This Role Is Unique
As part of the GOA’s OHS Community, you’ll have opportunities to:
•    Refine and expand your technical OHS skills.
•    Influence enterprise wide OHS Program revisions and implementation.
•    Support diverse workplaces from office environments to specialized operational sites.
•    Collaborate with HR professionals in areas like wellness, policy development, training, data analysis, and organizational effectiveness.
•    Build leadership capability by guiding clients toward proactive, prevention focused safety practices.
•    Receive strong support for your professional and leadership growth within a collaborative HR team and engaged OHS Community

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:  https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

o    Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them. Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives.

o    Agility: Proactively incorporates change into processes and is aware of and adapts to changing priorities.

o    Drive for Result: Works to remove barriers to outcomes, sticking to principles; forecasts and proactively addresses project challenges.

Qualifications

Minimum recruitment standard: University graduation in a related field (Sciences, Human Resources, Psychology, Sociology, Business), and a related area supplemented with a minimum of 2 years of directly related experience in OHS program development and implementation.

Equivalencies:
•    A related two-year diploma in OHS from a recognized post-secondary institution and four years of related experience, or
•    A related one-year OHS certificate from a recognized post-secondary institution and five years of related experience.

Role requirement:
•    Strong working knowledge of OHS legislation and its application across various workplaces.
•    Experience supporting OHS programs, incident management, committee development, claim‑related processes, or psychological health & safety.
•    Ability to interpret legislation, analyze data, prepare reports, and provide sound recommendations.
•    Comfort facilitating training and presenting to leaders at all levels.

Assets (Nice to Have):
•    OHS professional designation (e.g., CRSP, CHSC, other related and recognized equivalent).
•    Experience with large enterprise OHS Programs and incident management systems.
•    Familiarity with CSA Psychological Health & Safety Standards.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Location: Edmonton
Temporary position up to 12 months.
A Class 5 driver’s license is required.
Travel within Alberta (approximately 20%).

While the current vacancy is based in Edmonton, this competition may be used to fill future temporary or permanent opportunities which may be located in other locations across Alberta.

This competition is being used to fill more than one vacancy and future opportunities at the same or lower classification level.

Hours of Work: 
7.25 hours per day/36.25 hours per week - Monday to Friday, 8:15 am to 4:30 pm

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.