Mines Inspector

About Us

The Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety encourages healthy, safe, and productive workplaces by setting, promoting, and enforcing employment and occupational health and safety standards. We work with businesses, labour groups, workers and other stakeholders to foster a positive labour environment.

The Opportunity

The Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety is seeking a highly motivated and independent Mines Inspector to provide regulatory direction and enforcement of occupational health and safety within the Saskatchewan mining industry. The role of the Mines Inspector is to promote and enforce the requirements of The Saskatchewan Employment Act, The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020, and The Mines Regulations, 2018.

Ideal Candidate

This position will be of particular interest to an individual with several years of relevant industry experience who is looking for a challenging role with non-traditional hours, the ability to travel throughout the province and flexibility in how they schedule their hours and days of work.

The knowledge, skills and abilities needed to qualify for this position are attained through the completion of an undergraduate science degree, and professional engineer or professional geoscientist designation. Experience in mining operations and / or mineral processing is also a requirement. Preference will be given to candidates with backgrounds in mining engineering, geological engineering, mining geology, metallurgy, mineral processing or chemical engineering . A valid class 5 driver’s license is required.

Please note: there will be a 14% salary supplement provided for those with a Professional Engineer or Professional Geoscience designation.

The salary for this position will be updated to reflect compensation adjustments for out-of-scope employees once updates in the HR system are completed. Compensation adjustments include wage increases of 3% for April 2023, 3% for April 2024 and 1.67% for April 2025 as well as a 3.41% class plan renewal adjustment effective November 1, 2024.