Department: HSE & Regulatory Relations
Location: Patterson Lake Project (PLS)
Description
Paladin Canada is seeking an experienced Safety & Training Coordinator to support day-to-day health, safety, and training activities supporting exploration and construction activities at the Patterson Lake South location. Reporting to the site-based Safety and Training Manager, the Safety & Training Coordinator provides visible field leadership, directs assigned health and safety resources and helps site teams and contractors translate Program requirements into safe field execution.
The successful candidate will be a practical, credible safety leader who is comfortable working in a mineral exploration setting, an active construction environment, addressing issues at the point of work and maintaining effective relationships with Paladin leaders, the EPCM team, contractors, supervisors and workers.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate daily safety coverage, field priorities and assignments for employees and contract safety resources.
- Maintain a strong field presence through inspections, observations, worker engagement and verification of critical controls.
- Support exploration and construction activities, including work planning, contractor mobilization, pre-job meetings and simultaneous-operations coordination.
- Verify that hazard assessments, permits, procedures and controls reflect the work being performed and changing field conditions.
- Provide focused oversight of high-risk work, mobile equipment, lifting and rigging, energy isolation, confined spaces, work at height, excavation, ground-control interfaces and electrical work.
- Intervene when controls are ineffective, coordinate immediate corrective measures and escalate significant or unresolved risks.
- Monitor contractor compliance and follow deficiencies through to effective closure.
- Coordinate incident notification and investigation support, review trends and develop practical safety communications and toolbox content.
- Support site orientation, required training, competency verification, emergency preparedness and site performance reporting.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- 10+ years of health and safety experience in mining, heavy industrial construction or a comparable high-hazard environment.
- Post-secondary education in occupational health and safety or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
- Experience in a federally regulated or nuclear-licensed environment, or formal qualifications in incident investigation, auditing, training or emergency response, is considered an asset.
- Experience working in northern Saskatchewan or a similar remote environment.
- Working knowledge of Saskatchewan occupational health and safety and mine-safety requirements.
- Experience with contractor oversight, hazard assessment, inspections, incident investigation, corrective actions and emergency preparedness.
- Ability to interpret requirements, provide practical field guidance and recognize when escalation or specialist advice is required.
- Experience with exploration mining or major mining construction and a CRSP, CRST or NCSO designation are assets.
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and health and safety or incident-management systems.
- This is a safety-sensitive, site-based role on a rotational schedule that requires regular travel in northern Saskatchewan.
- A valid driver’s licence and an acceptable driver’s abstract are required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and annual incentive program
- Comprehensive benefits package including health and dental coverage, a health spending account, and an RRSP matching program
- Opportunity to grow your career with a growing company as we advance a major Saskatchewan mining project
- Collaborative, supportive and safety-focused culture where your contributions are valued
- Contribute to the development of one of Saskatchewan’s future mining operations
Equal Employment Opportunity
Paladin is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of our communities. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities and LGBTQIA2S+ individuals.
