Safety Audit Specialist
Hybrid | Lower Mainland, BC | Supporting safer tourism and hospitality workplaces across beautiful British Columbia
Bring your health and safety expertise to a people-focused role where relationships, practical solutions and safer workplaces come together.
Do you enjoy helping employers succeed, translating complex safety requirements into practical action, and building trusted relationships along the way?
go2HR is looking for a knowledgeable, people-focused Safety Audit Specialist to join our Industry Health & Safety team. In this role, you’ll guide employers through health and safety auditing activities, deliver engaging training, support auditor development, and help strengthen safe, healthy workplaces across BC’s tourism and hospitality industry.
This is a Vancouver-based, full-time, permanent, hybrid (2 days in office) opportunity with purpose, variety and real industry impact.
Why You’ll Love This Role
- Purposeful work: Help employers create safer, stronger workplaces across BC’s tourism and hospitality industry.
- People-first impact: Build trusted relationships with employers, auditors and industry partners.
- Variety every week: Balance coaching, training, quality assurance, program support and industry outreach.
- Room to contribute: Bring ideas, improve resources and help shape the ongoing success of go2HR’s health and safety auditing services.
About go2HR
go2HR is BC’s human resources and health & safety association for the tourism and hospitality industry. We support employers with practical programs, tools, training and advisory services that help strengthen safe, healthy workplaces across the province.
Our values guide how we show up: Inclusive, Collaborative, Entrepreneurial and Trustworthy. We bring those values to our partnerships, our programs and the way we support employers every day.
We do this by:
- Delivering practical programs, tools, resources and advisory services.
- Providing industry-leading education and training.
- Supporting employers with health and safety and human resources expertise.
- Working alongside industry, government and stakeholders to strengthen BC's tourism and hospitality workforce.
The Opportunity
As our Safety Audit Specialist, you’ll be a key connector between employers, auditors, industry partners and go2HR’s Health & Safety team. You’ll support audit-related program delivery, quality assurance, employer engagement and auditor development while helping organizations build stronger health and safety management systems.
It’s a role with plenty of variety: one day you may be coaching an employer through an audit process, the next you may be delivering training, reviewing program data, supporting auditors or representing go2HR at an industry event.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Supporting employers through health and safety audit processes with practical advice and guidance.
- Building strong relationships with employers, auditors and industry partners.
- Promoting health and safety auditing services through presentations, meetings, conferences, outreach and industry events.
- Supporting smooth delivery, growth and continuous improvement of go2HR’s health and safety auditing services.
- Conducting gap analyses and quality assurance activities that help employers improve their health and safety systems while maintaining program integrity and consistency.
- Delivering engaging training and maintaining practical health and safety auditing resources, tools and training materials.
- Supporting the recruitment, onboarding and ongoing development of health and safety auditors.
- Reviewing program performance, feedback and data to help identify opportunities for improvement.
- Working closely with the administrative coordinator to track audits and related activities, collaborate on tasks and ensure a high-quality service is maintained.
What You’ll Bring
You’ll thrive here if you’re passionate about health and safety, confident working with people, comfortable balancing details with big-picture thinking, and motivated by making a positive difference.
We're looking for someone with:
- 2+ years’ experience in a hands-on occupational health and safety role, ideally with auditing, inspection, assessment or compliance-related responsibilities.
- Experience auditing, inspecting or assessing occupational health and safety management systems, or transferable experience from a similar regulatory, compliance or quality assurance environment.
- Experience with Certificate of Recognition (COR) auditing, including conducting or supporting COR audits, is an asset.
- Experience providing training or consulting services highly advantageous.
- Knowledge of the Workers Compensation Act, Occupational Health and Safety Regulation and occupational health and safety management systems.
- Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational and problem-solving abilities.
- A collaborative approach to work and a team player.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office; experience with HubSpot, Power BI and SurveyMonkey is an asset.
- A post-secondary education in Occupational Health and Safety or a related discipline (e.g. certificate, diploma or similar).
- Ability to effectively use AI tools responsibly while verifying outputs, protecting confidential information and applying sound judgment.
- Experience working in the tourism and hospitality industry considered an asset.
Salary & Perks
$65,000-$75,000 annually, depending on your experience, education and qualifications.
Along with meaningful work and a collaborative team, you’ll enjoy:
- A hybrid work environment (based in downtown Vancouver head office with the opportunity to work from home 3 days a week).
- Comprehensive benefits and generous vacation.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Occasional travel throughout BC may be required, as part of employer engagement and industry events.
- A supportive team that values collaboration, learning and having fun along the way.
- The chance to support employers in building stronger health and safety systems across one of BC’s most dynamic industries.
Ready to Apply?
If you're excited about helping employers build safer workplaces and want to be part of a collaborative team making a difference across British Columbia, we'd love to hear from you.
Please submit your résumé and cover letter to Christie Blaquiere at [email protected] with "Safety Audit Specialist" in the subject line.
Pay: $65,000.00-$75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Mileage reimbursement
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program
- Work from home
Experience:
- OHS: 2 years (preferred)
- safety audits: 2 years (preferred)
- Certificate of Recognition (COR) auditing: 2 years (preferred)
Location:
- Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1 (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1
