HSE Advisor and Region

The Opportunity

Safety is a cornerstone of our business and a core value that shapes our culture. It drives everything we do, and we're looking for a passionate HSE Advisor for our Vancouver and Vancouver Island Region to champion this mission alongside a dynamic regional operations team. We provide diverse engineering consulting and geomatics services across a broad range of market sectors for municipal, provincial, general contractors, oil & gas, energy and other clients.

Our offices are always bustling, and our field work is dispersed with small teams working in remote, urban, and rural areas.

As the HSE Advisor, you'll be a trusted advisor to Project Managers, Division Managers, and Operational Leaders, helping them integrate health, safety, and environmental excellence into day-to-day operations. You will identify emerging risks, support critical operational decision-making, and develop practical solutions that enable both safe and successful project delivery. Working alongside our regional operations teams and corporate HSE group, you'll provide practical guidance, coaching, and actionable insights that support safe project delivery while continually improving our HSE Management System (HSEMS).

If you thrive in a collaborative environment, can work remotely from others, and are excited to coach, support, and inspire others, we want you on our team!

The successful candidate is located in, or willing to relocate to, Vancouver, Surrey, Langley, Victoria, Duncan, Nanaimo, or another location within daily commuting distance to one of our above mentioned offices.

• Build trusted relationships with operational leaders, coach teams, and support the effective implementation of McElhanney’s HSEMS across operations.
• Work directly with a team of HSE professionals and operations to deliver our organization commitment, to provide and maintain a workplace where everyone goes home safe, every day.

• Support McElhanney’s HSE Systems by contributing to key internal projects and completing work tasks related to the continuous improvement of our HSEMS.
• Develop Safe Work Methods in collaboration with subject matter experts and support the continual improvement of all elements within McElhanney’s HSEMS.
• Develop training and education content for employees.
• Provide support, coaching, and feedback to supervisors in the investigation of incidents, determining root causes, and the recommendation of corrective actions.
• Proactively identify non-compliance issues and general opportunities for improvement. Assist in the development of solutions to improve safety performance.
• Provide insights from direct experience, data (e.g., dashboards and processes outcomes), and the frontline to management for decision making, learning, coaching, and continual improvement.
• Complete McElhanney’s Subcontractor HSE Prequalification Process as required for projects and support the development of Project Specific Safety Plans.
• Perform internal audits and provide recommendations and corrective actions to management.
• Conduct periodic worksite inspections at our offices and field project worksites to help verify the effective implementation of McElhanney’s HSE Management System (HSEMS) and provide continuous improvement opportunities for workers and the division/branch.
• Other tasks as assigned.

• You will be working from an office predominately; however, you will be required to travel to conduct periodic office and project site visits throughout the Vancouver and Vancouver Island region as required.
• Our projects are widely dispersed across the region, often not in close reach, and our…