Trans Mountain Corporation operates Canada’s only pipeline system transporting oil products to the West Coast. We deliver approximately 890,000 barrels of petroleum products each day through a dual pipeline system of more than 1,150 kilometres of pipeline in Alberta, British Columbia and Washington state.

Trans Mountain also operates a state-of-the-art loading facility, Westridge Marine Terminal, with three berths providing tidewater access to global markets.

As a federal Crown corporation, Trans Mountain continues to build on more than 70 years of experience delivering operational and safety excellence through our crude oil pipeline system.

With our expanded pipeline system now in place, Trans Mountain provides enhanced direct access for Canadian crude oil to world markets. The expansion realizes a world-class system for oil transport, developed to Canada’s high standards within one of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, creating long-term economic benefits, enhanced marine protection, enhanced safety and emergency management capabilities, and enhanced skilled-worker capacity building in communities and Indigenous groups.

Our Core Values

Trans Mountain’s core values – Safety, Integrity, Respect and Excellence – guide our every step. Each obstacle we’ve overcome or success we’ve experienced has been the result of a shared commitment to living these values every day. Together, we’re focused on doing the right thing for each other and our communities.

If you are looking for an opportunity to apply your strengths in an environment that encourages Safety, Integrity, Respect, and Excellence, we invite you to explore this opportunity with us!

Location: Calgary Head Office

Department: Health & Safety

Reports to: Manager, Health & Safety

Worker Type: Employee

Schedule Type: Full-time

Work Setting: In-office

Trans Mountain is seeking a collaborative, systems minded, and values-driven individual to join our Health & Safety team as a Senior Health & Safety Advisor. This role provides senior level health and safety governance, technical guidance, and program support across Operations, Major Projects, Engineering, construction, maintenance, facility and pipeline integrity, and contractor-related activities. The position supports Trans Mountain’s safety strategy by advancing serious injury and fatality prevention, Energy-Based Safety, Control of Work, safety assurance, contractor oversight, and continuous improvement.

The Senior Health & Safety Advisor will translate safety strategy, standards, and operational requirements into clear, usable, and sustainable processes, workflows, tools, guidance, and field-ready solutions. This includes supporting the integration of Human and Organizational Performance (HOP), High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles, Energy-Based Safety, and a “ONE Program” approach. The successful candidate will engage leaders, supervisors, workers, contractors, technical specialists, and end users to ensure health and safety programs are risk-based, fit for purpose, and effective in the field.

They will help simplify requirements, reduce process clutter, improve document usability, support business cases, and strengthen safety culture through practical implementation.

Key Responsibilities

- Advance Trans Mountain’s approach to SIF prevention, Energy-Based Safety, Control of Work, and high-energy hazard control management.
- Provide guidance on safe work planning, hazard and risk assessment, secure work permitting, Management of Change, SIMOPS, contractor readiness, competency, and field execution.
- Support a “ONE Program” approach by aligning governance, safety expectations, processes, tools, assurance practices, and field resources across the organization.
- Support alignment with Trans Mountain’s Integrated Safety and Loss Management System by helping ensure health and safety programs, controls, assurance activities, and learning processes are implemented, monitored, and continually improved.




- Lead and support safety assurance activities, including inspections, audits, critical control verification, contractor oversight, action tracking, and performance improvement.
- Embed HOP and HRO principles into leadership practices, learning processes, field engagement, safety culture, and system improvement.
- Develop health and safety programs, standards, procedures, forms, training materials, field tools, business cases, and implementation plans.
- Simplify and improve health and safety documents, tools, and processes so they are risk-based, scalable, and effective for end users.
- Provide senior technical health and safety support across operations, projects, engineering, construction, integrity, maintenance, and contractor activities.
- Help connect teams across the business so health and safety expectations are understood, practical, and applied consistently.

Qualifications and Professional Experience

- Post-secondary education in Occupational Health and Safety, Physical Sciences, Engineering, Risk Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Over 10 years of progressive experience, preferably within the energy industry, industrial operations, construction, major projects, or another high-risk work environment.
- Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) designation, or equivalent senior-level professional designation, is required. Equivalent designations may include Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH), Chartered Occupational Health and Safety Professional (ChOHSP), Certified Occupational Health and Safety Professional (COHSProf), or Skilled Engineer (P.Eng).
- Related designations or certifications, such as Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Health and Safety Consultant, Registered Occupational Hygienist, Canadian Registered Safety Technician, National Construction Safety Officer, or NEBOSH Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, will be considered assets where supported by relevant education and experience.
- Practical knowledge of integrated management systems, Contractor Management Programs, Control of Work, Energy-Based Safety, hazard reporting, inspections, audits, and safety assurance processes.
- Strong understanding of industrial safety practices, including work planning, hazard and risk assessment, pre-job safety meetings, safe work permitting, Management of Change, SIMOPS, contractor readiness, competency management, and control effectiveness.
- Experience applying HOP, HRO principles, SIF prevention, high-energy hazard recognition, hierarchy of controls, direct controls, and alternative controls.
- Ability to develop health and safety standards, procedures, workflows, guidance, training materials, implementation plans, and field-ready toolkits.
- Strong ability to engage field stakeholders, contractors, leaders, supervisors, workers, technical specialists, and end users to ensure processes and tools are usable and fit for purpose.
- Experience translating safety strategy, regulatory requirements, and operational expectations into clear business processes, field tools, communications, and implementation supports.
- Strong systems thinking and risk-based decision-making skills, with the ability to connect strategy, culture, behaviours, processes, assurance, and field execution.
- Experience supporting assurance activities, including field verification, inspections, audits, action tracking, contractor oversight, and control effectiveness reviews.
- Strong facilitation, coaching, collaboration, communication, and influencing skills across business functions.




- Ability to simplify complex information, reduce duplication, improve document usability, and challenge over-engineered processes while maintaining compliance and operational discipline.
- Strong planning and organizational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, deliver high-quality work, meet deadlines, and support sustainable implementation.

Working Conditions

- Willingness and ability to travel as required.
- Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license.
- May need to provide support outside of regular business hours and/or on the weekend.

Application Candidates may submit their application in English or French. To apply in French, please use our French careers site: Careers (French)

At Trans Mountain, we believe in an inclusive, accessible, and barrier free recruitment and selection process for all applicants. If you require an accommodation at any point in the process, please contact us at: [email protected] or the designated Talent Acquisition Advisor. Accomodation requests will not affect the assessment of your application or candidacy or the designated Talent Acquisition Advisor.

Accomodation requests will not affect the assessment of your application or candidacy.

We Build Careers and Pipelines That Last

Our story is about determination, resourcefulness and resilience. It’s about charting our own course, finding innovative solutions to challenging problems and doing the right thing. It was true when Trans Mountain became a company in 1951 and it’s just as true today.

We welcome new members to our team that embrace the qualities in our story, that thrive on the new path and directions we take. Our culture is one of care and taking our responsibilities seriously. If you would like to contribute to our culture, then join our journey.

A Rewarding Opportunity

We offer:

- Valuable experience providing opportunity for professional development and career advancement;
- An opportunity to engage with and learn from some of the most talented and experienced people in the business;
- Competitive compensation;
- Comprehensive perks programs including flexible benefits, pension and savings plans;
- A place to share a sense of purpose and build relationships;
- Meaningful work that makes a difference;
- An opportunity within the Canadian energy industry.

We value:

- The health, safety and wellness of everyone working in our company;
- Meaningful participation from Indigenous and local communities;
- The commitment and resilience of our people;
- Collaboration and achieving success together.

In keeping with Trans Mountain’s commitment to maximize benefits for communities, priority will be given to qualified candidates from Indigenous, local and regional communities along the Trans Mountain pipeline corridor. In Alberta, the pipeline system spans the traditional territories of Treaty 6, 7 and 8, and the Métis Nation of Alberta (Zone 4).

In British Columbia, the system crosses the traditional territories of numerous First Nations that are affiliated with the Secwepemc, Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux, Syilx/Okanagan, Interior and Coast Salish, Stó:lo, as well as the Métis.

Trans Mountain also operates through 15 First Nation Reserves located within the region spanning the BC interior through Fraser Valley.

Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)

Trans Mountain is committed to fostering inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. The diverse viewpoints and cultural knowledge that our employees bring to work enrich our organization’s collective cultural understanding, which is reflected in the work we do every day. We strive to create an environment that is free of barriers to promote full participation in the workplace.

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Mountain welcomes new team members from traditionally underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous Peoples, members of racialized groups, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

📌 Senior Health & Safety Advisor (Calgary)
🏢 Trans Mountain
📍 Calgary