The Opportunity
The Safety System Risk Scientist provides advanced analytical expertise and technical leadership to support evidence-based safety risk management. The role leads complex analyses that integrate internal and external data to characterize risks, evaluate safety outcomes, identify emerging hazards, and inform organizational priorities. The role serves as a senior technical advisor on risk-analysis methods, models, metrics, and data-quality practices to ensures that risk information and analytical products are robust, transparent, reproducible, and suitable for strategic and operational decision-making. Working across multidisciplinary teams, the role guides the development of analytical approaches, strengthens risk-data governance, and builds organizational capability in safety risk analysis.
Status: Regular Full-Time, Union
Number of Positions: 1
Pay Grade: 17 ($55.02 per hour)
Location: Vancouver, BC
Reports to: Leader, Safety Systems Risk
As a Risk Scientist, you will be responsible for:
Risk Analysis and Technical Leadership
- Lead complex quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analyses using internal and external data and evidence to identify, assess, characterize, and prioritize safety risks. Integrate inspection results, technical non-compliances, incidents, field intelligence, and other relevant evidence to support comprehensive risk assessment and decision-making.
- Determine appropriate analytical and research approaches based on data quality, evidence gaps, risk context, and decision needs. Assess and clearly communicate assumptions, uncertainty, limitations, potential bias, and competing interpretations.
- Lead the development and continuous improvement of risk-analysis methods, models, frameworks, and analytical tools to strengthen evidence-based risk assessment and prioritization.
- Establish and promote consistent, defensible analytical practices. Provide technical guidance, conduct or oversee peer review, and coach analysts and other contributors to strengthen quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-method analytical capability.
- Translate and present complex findings, uncertainty, and recommendations as clear, actionable, and decision-relevant insights for senior leaders, technical specialists, and other decision-makers.
Risk Measurement and Reporting
- Oversee the operation, validation, maintenance, and controlled improvement of models and calculations used in quarterly and annual safety risk reporting.
- Oversee the calculation and interpretation of key safety risk measures, including:
- Risk indices and risk-ranking measures;
- Incident rates associated with individual risks or risk categories; and
- Disability-adjusted life years associated with technical non-compliances, injuries, and fatalities.
- Monitor and interpret risk measures using relevant quantitative and qualitative evidence to explain significant changes, recurring patterns, anomalies, emerging concerns, and operational context not evident from numerical results alone.
- Establish validation, documentation, change-control, and review requirements to ensure reported measures and supporting interpretations are accurate, consistent, reproducible, and fit for purpose.
- Maintain clear documentation of metric definitions, methodologies, assumptions, data sources, limitations, and model changes
Data Integrity and Risk Information Governance
- Establish and oversee data standards, business rules, operating procedures, tools, and quality controls for risk classification, incident-to-risk tagging, data validation, and timely maintenance of the risk register.
- Lead periodic quality reviews to identify and resolve incomplete, inconsistent, duplicated, outdated, or incorrectly classified risk information.
- Work with Data Management and technical specialists to ensure quantitative data, qualitative evidence, and other risk information are appropriately structured, governed, maintained, and accessible.
- Lead the development and maintenance of risk-information products, including non-compliance-to-hazard mappings, taxonomies, fault trees, data dictionaries, and qualitative coding frameworks.
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate quality controls and improve the reliability, consistency, and efficiency of risk-data processes.
Risk Identification and Emerging-Risk Analysis
- Lead the development and application of systematic surveillance methods to identify hazard patterns and emerging, changing, or previously uncaptured risks from hazard notifications and other relevant information sources.
- Establish evidence-based criteria and analytical rules for determining when identified hazards require further assessment or inclusion in the risk register.
- Develop recommendations for changes to the risk register and document the supporting evidence, rationale, assumptions, limitations, and level of uncertainty.
Organizational Collaboration and Representation
- Serve as a senior analytical advisor to the Safety System Risk team and other internal stakeholders on the application of risk analysis to technical risk-management decisions.
- Work across functions to promote alignment on risk-analysis practices, evidence requirements, and the interpretation and use of safety risk information.
- Represent the Safety System Risk team on committees, working groups, and cross-functional initiatives requiring senior risk-analysis expertise.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- A post-graduate degree in statistics, data science, mathematics, epidemiology, engineering, economics, operations research, public health, risk management, or a related discipline. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
- 5 years experience leading complex risk analysis involving large, integrated, and potentially incomplete datasets and multiple forms of evidence.
- Advanced knowledge of statistical analysis, quantitative risk assessment, risk modelling, data quality, and the interpretation of uncertainty.
- Demonstrated strong critical thinking and ability to identify and develop defensible analysis design in contexts with much uncertainty and nuances.
- Knowledge of and appreciation for qualitative research and mixed-methods analysis. Understanding how interviews, focus groups, observations, case studies, narrative records, and subject-matter expert input can complement quantitative data;
- Understanding methods such as thematic analysis, content analysis, structured case review, and expert elicitation;
- Assessing the credibility, relevance, limitations, and potential biases of qualitative evidence; and integrating qualitative and quantitative findings without treating one form of evidence as inherently superior to the other.
- Demonstrated experience developing, validating, maintaining, and documenting analytical models, risk metrics, research methods, or performance measures.
- Advanced proficiency with Python.
- Proficiency with data-management tools such as SQL.
- Familiarity with qualitative analysis tools or coding approaches is an asset.
- Experience providing technical leadership, reviewing analytical work, and advising senior decision-makers on complex or ambiguous issues.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with passion for accuracy, defensible methods, and clearly documented uncertainties.
- Strong ability to synthesize quantitative findings, qualitative evidence, assumptions, limitations, and uncertainty into clear and defensible conclusions and recommendations.
- Experience working with incident, inspection, compliance, regulatory, or safety information is preferred. Experience with risk registers, hazard taxonomies, emerging-risk analysis, mixed-methods research, or burden-of-harm measures such as DALYs is an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise tact, good judgement, creativity and initiative;
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Beyond the role:
- Community & Wellness – We recognize and respect each other’s diverse needs. We strive to maintain a healthy culture of psychological safety, belonging, and space to prioritize healthy minds and well-being. This includes Wellness Wednesday (meeting free time), flexible paid holidays, a free subscription to the Calm app, and a flexible hybrid work environment focused on connections. Our teams also enjoy giving back to the community, and having fun, whether volunteering in the community, or running together on our Sun Run team. In 2024, Technical Safety BC supported BC Cancer Foundation, Aboriginal Coalition to End Homelessness, Crisis Centre BC, Quest Non-Profit Grocery Markets, A Loving Spoonful, and Greater Vancouver Foodbank.
- Employee Resource Groups – We have Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Mental Health & Wellness, Indigenous Relations & Reconciliation, and Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) to support initiatives we’re passionate about.
- Learning & Development – We value giving and receiving feedback, as well as encouraging different ways for us to continuously learn as a company. This can be through lessons learned, wrap up sessions, one-on-one meetings, and team or individual courses, workshops, and conferences. In addition, we offer up to $1500 tuition aid per calendar year to support your education and learning goals.
- Compensation & Benefits – In full transparency, you can find our industry-competitive compensation information on our postings. For our regular employees, we have outstanding benefits that include extended health, dental and disability coverage, access to an employee and family assistance program (EFAP), competitive annual paid vacation entitlements, public service defined benefit pension plan, generous top-up allowance for new parents, and time-off for caregiving, moving, and adoption leave. We recently upgraded our mental health benefits to $1500 separate from our non-mental health paramedical services too.
About Technical Safety BC
At Technical Safety BC, we matter to each other. Together, we apply a systems mindset to safety, embrace possibility, and act on what we learn. Our culture empowers and enables innovation and connection. Our environment welcomes diverse perspectives and learning is celebrated. We make decisions based on data and use our expertise to make the safety system equitable for all.
Our values guide our work.
- We see genius in diversity
- We foster confidence
- We make the complex simple
- We adapt
Technical Safety BC is an independent, self-funded organization that oversees the safe installation and operation of technical systems and equipment across the province. In addition to issuing permits, licences and certificates, we work with industry to reduce safety risks through assessment, education and outreach, enforcement, and research. Through simplification of our initiatives, we promote understanding and engagement, making safety accessible to everyone. As society changes, we create and adopt new ideas, skills, and tools that will enable us to meet the safety challenges of a highly-connected world.
We see genius in diversity and are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workforce. We recognize that diverse life paths and experiences contribute to the overall qualifications for each role. If you feel that you could excel in this position, but do not necessarily meet the formal requirements, we encourage you to apply.
If you are interested in one of our career opportunities and require accommodation or assistance with the application or recruitment process, please contact us directly at careers@technicalsafetybc.ca.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply online by 4:00PM PST on November 17, 2026. This opportunity will remain posted until filled; however, priority consideration will be given to those who apply by the deadline. To see a full list of our current opportunities or to learn more about working at Technical Safety BC, please visit our careers page.
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