Lockout/Tagout Authority / Permit Coordinator
Our client is seeking an experienced LOTO (Lockout/Tagout)/Permit Coordinator for their mine site in Cochrane Ontario. This role involves working on a remote mine site camp with lodging and meals provided and working 14 days (12 hour shifts) and then off for 14 days.
This individual must be experienced in various lock out and tag out environments with a focus on ensuring absolute safety compliance during the servicing, commissioning, and maintenance responsible for managing the control of hazardous energy. Operating under the Client’s stringent Risk Management & Monitoring System (RMMS), this role includes the LOTO of heavy mining infrastructure, crushers, mills, and high-voltage systems to focus on mechanical and electrical systems LOTO plan development,implementation (from initial planning to construction / commissioning / client final review and handover), various other systems requiring LOTO process and permit management could be hydraulic, pneumatic, chemical and piping, etc. This role requires someone to focus on the permit to work system, encroachment (working around powerlines permits), hot work, confined space processes and permits and excavation, trenching and ground disturbance (digging permits).
Core Responsibilities:
- Procedure Development: Creating, reviewing, and updating equipment-specific energy isolation procedures (EIPs) for all machinery on the mine site. [1, 2]
- Isolation Oversight: Serving as the definitive site authority to verify, approve, and audit complex, multi-craft master lockout sequences before work begins. [1, 2]
- Compliance & Auditing: Conducting routine field inspections and zero-energy verification audits to ensure personnel strictly adhere to corporate and provincial safety regulations.
- Permit Management: Issuing and tracking LOTO permits, managing lockbox distributions, and ensuring correct tag placements (detailing worker names, dates, and intent).
- Training & Mentorship: Mentoring mine staff and external contractors on site-specific hazardous energy controls and NORCAT training module standards (like U0012/U5031 Common Core rules)
- System De-isolation: Authorizing the safe removal of lockout constraints and confirming area clearance before re-energization.
Key Requirements & Qualifications:
- Industry Experience: Extensive technical background in industrial maintenance, electrical instrumentation, or mechanical systems within heavy industry or mining operations.
- Regulatory Expertise: Deep understanding of Canadian provincial mining safety acts (e.g., Ontario Green Book regulations, Quebec CNESST, or Nunavut WSCC frameworks) and standard CSA Z460 (Control of Hazardous Energy).
- Certifications: Completion of Ontario/applicable provincial Mining Common Core modules (specifically Lock Out and Tag Equipment and Energy).
- Physical & Environmental Agility: Ability to handle demanding physical tasks in varied environments, ranging from extreme surface climates to deep underground infrastructure.
- Communication Skills: Exceptional assertiveness and clear communication skills to safely manage and direct diverse team elements under time-sensitive production constraints.
How to apply – Interested applicants can forward a resume to michelle@nesworks.com
