Fire Safety Consultant Full-time Job

What you’ll do

The Fire Safety Consultant is responsible for ensuring CTC's fire prevention, preparedness, contingency planning, training, emergency management and investigations meet or exceed industry standards. The Fire Safety Consultant will take a key role coaching, counseling, and directing efforts to preserve life safety with a focus on legislative compliance.

This position will work closely with the operations teams to keep evacuation plans up to date, continuously evaluating and improving preparedness. The successful candidate will also act as a subject matter expert for all projects being implemented that have an impact on life safety, emergency management, fire prevention, detection, response, and investigation.  The successful candidate will work directly with internal and external technical disciplines to ensure all systems and processes are maintained according to industry standards. The consultant will work in a team environment, alongside the safety, security, operations, and maintenance teams.

• Exemplify a passion for safety, act as the subject matter expert and provide sound guidance to our internal stakeholders

• Emergency and Alternative Measures Planning

• Conduct Fire Code/Building Egress compliance reviews and audits

• Foster a culture of safety and preparedness

• Work with the internal training department, Joint Health and Safety Committees and other internal stakeholders to design, coordinate, and facilitate fire safety training, drills, and exercises. Review all third-party Life Safety System inspection reports and ensure action plans to resolve any issues are implemented in a timely manner

• Monitor third party inspections and advise the site maintenance manager of non-conformances

• Provide internal consultation as the subject matter expert associated to the discipline

• Act as the liaison with external emergency services and emergency management partners

• In coordination with site JHSC’s and operations management, manage all Evacuation drill planning, execution, and measurement

• Audit fire plan/life safety system maintenance conformance

• Authorized approver for all life safety system modifications including system shutdown and impairment

• Conduct Fire Safety related risk assessments and audits

• On call and after-hours resource for all Fire system events requiring escalation

• Attend all site meetings involving the Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ)

• Investigate and analyze the cause of fire alarms and trouble, events and conditions and perform root cause and gap analysis, validate that the corrective actions are acceptable, closed and addressed within an appropriate timeframe with all stakeholders

• In conjunction with the internal training department, prepare training plans for fire prevention awareness, the use of fire extinguishers and evacuation

• Demonstrate leadership and initiative in the development of fire protection projects and action plans

• Manage and report on nonconformities and incidents. Actively participate in project requirements meetings

 

What you bring

• 2+ years of related work experience

• University/College degree or diploma related to Fire Protection and Fire Prevention

• Certified Fire Protection Specialist (CFPS), Certified Engineering Technologist (CET) or similar designation is an asset

• Familiarity and formal training in emergency preparedness or like disciplines

• Knowledge of fire protection and life safety including familiarity with building/fire/life safety codes, standards, and best practices

• Working knowledge of fire prevention, fire codes, building codes and associated standards

• Technically oriented; good analytical and organizational skills; attention to detail; able to complete tasks and projects in established timelines.

• Self-starter that exhibits a high level of initiative and resourcefulness

• An individual with high standards who holds themselves accountable and is result-driven

• Confident and able to speak to large groups and train others

• Versatile and able to manage varying workloads and competing priorities

• Experience working in industrial buildings and on technical engineering projects is an asset

• Experience with Excel, MSWord, PowerPoint 

• Driver licence and vehicle required

 

Hybrid 

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (CTC) is one of Canadas most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.