Overview

Reporting to the Corporate Vice President, Environment, Permitting & Licensing, the Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment, and Radiation (HSER) is a key member of NexGen’s Saskatchewan Leadership team and is responsible for setting the strategic direction and managing all aspects of NexGen’s HSER programs across Saskatchewan-based office and field operations. This role will be responsible for the maintenance, evolution, and continual improvement of NexGen’s HSER programs in accordance with NexGen’s vision and values and in a manner that fully reflects regulatory compliance, operational readiness, and risk mitigation during the site preparation and construction phase of the Rook I Project and during the transition to operations.

Description

Application Deadline: 24 October 2025

Department: Safety

Location: Saskatoon

Responsibilities

- Champion a proactive, behaviour-based, safety-first culture that reflects NexGen’s values, strategic priorities, and commitment to environmental protection and operational excellence.
- Set the strategic direction for HSER across all NexGen Saskatchewan-based activities, ensuring full alignment with corporate objectives and ESG commitments.
- Establish Saskatchewan-wide measures targeting reduction of environmental footprint and enhancement of HSER performance.
- Manage, develop, and provide leadership to NexGen’s HSER team, including supporting continual development and coaching/mentoring of workforce department managers and area leads as they relate to HSER responsibilities.
- Manage NexGen’s crisis management emergency response planning, including leading training for corporate, office-based, and site-based activities.
- Oversee processes related to identification, mitigation, and management of critical HSER risks, opportunities, and emerging trends.
- Oversee the phased evolution of the HSER management system in accordance with applicable codes, standards, and provincial and federal regulations, implementing and sustaining policies, procedures, and metrics aligned with best-in-class execution.
- Direct the development and execution of site-specific HSER strategies in collaboration with Project, site, and operational leaders.




- Lead the Saskatchewan-based HSER management team to ensure integration with other functional areas, including Project, site, and other Saskatchewan-based activities.
- Provide oversight and leadership to the HSER team in maintaining strong, constructive relationships with provincial and federal regulatory bodies, industry associations, and community stakeholders.
- Represent NexGen in HSER matters during consultations, regulatory hearings, and public engagements.
- Ensure HSER compliance with applicable legislation, including permitting, inspections, audits, and reporting.
- Provide executive oversight for all serious incidents and high-potential HSER events, ensuring investigations are conducted with rigor, root causes identified, and effective corrective actions and lessons learned implemented to prevent recurrence.
- Oversee monitoring and continual refinement of leading and lagging HSER KPIs and deliver regular executive reports and insights.
- Direct Company-wide HSER risk and hazard identification and mitigation processes, including overseeing HSER team participation in engineering and construction reviews.
- Build and lead a high-performing HSER team commensurate with organizational and site-based needs, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and accountability.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

- 20+ years of progressive experience in health, safety, and environmental leadership roles, including 5+ years at a senior or executive level in the mining, energy, or heavy industrial sectors. Experience specifically within the uranium mining and milling or nuclear industry is considered an asset.
- Demonstrated experience leading HSER functions for large-scale projects and operations in a Canadian-regulated environment, with preference for experience in Saskatchewan.
- Strong knowledge of Saskatchewan and Canadian occupational health, safety, and environmental legislation and regulations and industry best practices.




- Experience working with large project teams and multi-stakeholder environments, including regulators and Indigenous Nations.
- Proven track record of strategic program development and enterprise-wide HSER transformation.
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Post-secondary education in occupational health and safety, environmental science, engineering, or related discipline. Professional designations (e.g., CRSP, CIH, CSP, P.Eng.) are considered an asset.

Core Competencies

Communication

- Communicates in an open, candid and consistent manner with impact to inform, enroll, coach, and inspire.
- Effectively builds rapport and delivers information (oral and written) in a timely, well-organized, thoughtful, and engaging manner.

Team Effectiveness

- Works collaboratively across functional teams to achieve common goals.
- Takes a proactive approach to building relationships by participating as a prepared team member, demonstrating flexibility and respect for different work styles.

Work Management

- Plans, manages and follows through to ensure timely completion of activities and delivery of results.
- Maintains quality and safety standards to ensure NexGen’s Elite Standards across all work streams.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability.

Personal Accountability

- Takes responsibility for own actions and outcomes.
- Maintains a professional approach, demonstrating resilience and accountability in a fast-paced setting.

Analytical/Critical Thinking

- Identifies and solves complex situations, considering outcomes.
- Provides clear explanations to support effective decisions aligned with company objectives.
- Uses creative, conceptual, and inductive reasoning.

Functional & Technical Skills

- Applies specialized knowledge in own area of expertise and shares information with others.

Seniority level

- Mid-Senior level

Employment type

- Full-time

Job function

- Management and Manufacturing
- Industries: Mining

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📌 Vice President, Health, Safety, Environment, and Radiation (HSER) (Saskatoon)
🏢 NexGen Energy
📍 Saskatoon