• Use your experience in a challenging role!
• Work within a collaborative team environment!
• Receive competitive compensation and benefits with a global leader!

About the Organization

Methanex is the world's largest supplier of methanol to major international markets in North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Latin America. With the care of the environment as the root of their business, Methanex is a Responsible Care® company committed to the safe, ethical and environmentally sound management of the chemicals it makes and uses. Responsible Care® is an ethic established by the Chemical Industry Association of Canada (CIAC). The Responsible Care® ethic is an integral part of Methanex’s global commitment to ensuring the well-being of all stakeholders, wherever Methanex does business.

About the Opportunity

Methanex is currently seeking a full-time Responsible Care Technical Advisor to join the team in Medicine Hat, AB.

The Responsible Care (RC) Technical Advisor works alongside the members of the Responsible Care team to manage resource demands across the department. The key focus areas for this position include Quality Management, including leading the internal and external audit programs and providing data analysis support for key performance indicators across the department, aiding in the facilitation of risk assessments and incident investigations, and supporting the site’s occupational health and safety culture.  

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the internal and external audit program, including the L2 program which includes routine management system audits
• Follow up on historic audit action items to ensure ongoing effectiveness of actions
• Liaise with internal stakeholders to consider other audit sources (e.g., WSCS audits, work package audits, process safety audits, etc.), into a comprehensive action management plan that ensures continual improvement of the integrated management system
• Lead the annual Management System Review
• Coordinate all external audits (ISO, RC Verification etc.) as required
• Provide data analysis support for a range of Responsible Care key performance indicators
• Conduct detailed trend analysis and support the continual improvement of KPIs across the department
• As an active member of the Health & Safety (H&S) committee, provide data analysis information and support for discussion
• Lead minor and non-minor investigations to ensure strong root cause analysis and the development of meaningful corrective actions
• Investigate select near misses to ensure continual improvement and action completion
• Participate in incident quality reviews, to ensure the ongoing quality of investigations
• Work with the Process Safety Engineer to facilitate risk assessments for a range of projects and tasks utilizing the existing risk matrix
• Be a key member of the on-site risk management team, providing support to the Process Safety Engineer in both facilitation and action management. Among other duties, this will include tracking of actions and projects related to major accident hazards to ensure continual progress in this area
• Conduct Health & Safety audits across all business lines on the site
• Support the RC team in organizing awareness events
• Participate as an active member of the H&S Committee to support site queries around H&S related issues or topics
• Provide support to other department responsibilities, which may include environmental management, emergency response, and process safety

About You

In order to qualify for this role, you will need at least 5 years of related industry experience, along with a bachelor's degree in a related field (quality management systems, environmental, engineering, etc.). An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. 

Additionally, the following assets would be preferred, but not required:

• Experience working with integrated management systems
• Well-versed in data management software
• Experience with risk assessment facilitation would be preferred
• Previous incident investigation training (Taproot, Appollo, etc.) preferred

As our ideal candidate for this role, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as a customer-focused mentality, which will ensure you successfully meet the expectations of internal and external customers while also gaining their trust and respect. You possess the ability to make decisions based on a mixture of analysis, experience, and judgment while being results-oriented and managing several competing priorities simultaneously. You are able to develop and maintain strong peer relationships, utilizing your collaboration skills, diplomacy, and tact.

Above all, you must possess exceptional problem-solving, critical/conceptual thinking, and organization skills, while also demonstrating an ongoing commitment to professional development. 

About the Benefits

Building on our core values of integrity, trust, respect, and professionalism, our corporate culture encourages communication and teamwork and rewards employees for creativity and innovation.

We are also very active in supporting educational and training/development initiatives. We sponsor scholarships and co-op programs at local colleges and universities as well as hands-on training programs at our manufacturing facilities.

In exchange for your hard work and dedication, you can expect an industry-competitive salary along with benefits.

Join this thriving and team-focused market leader today and expand your experience with a new challenge - Apply Now! 

To apply, please complete the online application form. Once you have answered the questions, please click NEXT and you will be instructed to attach your resume on the following page. Please submit your resume and cover letter as a single document.

Expressions of interest must be submitted by 4 p.m. on September 28, 2023.