About this role
Competition # : 49899 Department: Labour, Skills and Immigration Location: DARTMOUTH Type of Employment: Permanent Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG Closing Date: ¿04-Oct-26 ¿ (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time) About Us
The Department of Labour, Skills and Immigration works to provide fairness, safety and prosperity for all Nova Scotians by helping them live, learn and work to their highest potential. We have a staff of more than 500 employees working from offices throughout Nova Scotia. Together we are responsible for workplace safety, fire safety, pensions, apprenticeship, adult education, and many other facets of everyday life.
The Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Division plays a key role in workplace safety across Nova Scotia. Its goal is to help make Nova Scotia the safest place to work in Canada by setting, promoting, verifying, and enforcing workplace health and safety rules. Workplace parties share responsibility for creating safe and healthy workplaces within their authority and ability, as specified in the OHS Act. This shared responsibility, known as the internal responsibility system (IRS), is the foundation of the OHS Act.
About Our Opportunity
As a Mining Engineer, you will work independently as an engineering expert and department specialist while collaborating with the OHS Division mining safety team on workplace inspections, policy review, presentations, and training activities. You may be called upon to make critical decisions and recommendations that affect workplace health and safety, particularly for mines, pits, and quarries. You will help establish engineering standards for workplaces throughout the province, be appointed as a Special Constable, and work primarily under the authority of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and associated regulations. You will also make recommendations to the Executive Director as part of regulatory approval procedures.
Primary Accountabilities
You will conduct workplace health and safety inspections of surface and underground mines, write inspection reports, advise the Department on policy development, and