Branch Manager, Workforce Safety, Security and Employee Health Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 55163)

Description

Champion a Leading Culture of Safety and Employee Health Excellence!

The Branch Manager, Workforce Safety, Security and Employee Health works closely with all employees across the organization, union partners, and industry leaders. Reporting to the Deputy City Manager, Corporate Services, this role provides strategic leadership to progress from a compliance focus to a proactive loss prevention mandate, integrating safety and security management systems with innovation to understand and address risk and costs associated with workplace injuries and incidents. As the successful candidate, you will lead a branch of almost 70 employees and champion the City's safety, security, and employee health practices, processes, and culture, ensuring the City of Edmonton is leading the way in workplace safety, disability management and return to work, and employee health support. Your Influence Spans:

• Safety and Employee Health Strategy: Championing the strategic direction of safety, health, and disability management programs, systems, and initiatives, and translating this direction into branch and corporate-level programs required to achieve the City's vision and priorities
• Compliance and Representation: Ensuring the corporation's alignment with, and adherence to the Provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Code, and actively representing the City of Edmonton on external Provincial and governmental committees, boards, and meetings including the Government of Alberta Health and Safety Committee
• Program Assessment and Integration: Assessing priorities and identifying gaps in existing safety and health programming, and services to provide leadership and guidance to the corporation through influencing and motivating active integration of Occupational Health and Safety practices into business areas' everyday operations and culture
• Corporate Security: Providing strategic oversight and partnership on matters related to workforce and physical security, ensuring alignment between employee safety protocols and corporate security standards
• Resource Stewardship: Ensuring the prudent and effective use of financial resources in the conceptualization and delivery of the corporation's, department's, and branch work

Your Impact:

• Lead Culture and Alignment: Lead the alignment of structure, process, competencies, leadership style, and culture to the strategy of the branch and department, and advance the corporation in adopting and embracing a leading safety culture of excellence
• Service Excellence: Lead the Branch and Departments across the organization in building and championing customer service standards of excellence in the delivery of safety, health and security services
• Performance Metrics: Oversee the development of measurable and effective safety, health and security metrics and ensure associated performance measures are consistently implemented, monitored, and achieved
• Foster Integration: Foster integration within the Corporation to ensure a thorough and seamless delivery of programs, projects, and services

Is this your next chapter?

We need a proven relationship builder, connector, and strategically agile leader who can influence City-wide policy and planning. To be successful in this role, you are a:

• Champion for your team: Committed to the growth and development of all employees, and a trusted advisor to senior leadership
• Strategic Connector: Actively leverage the knowledge and operational needs of client departments and union partners to integrate safety, health, and security strategies across the corporation
• Proactive Leader: Ensure corporate-wide safety, security and employee health programs, including disability management, proactively meet the evolving needs of our City workforce
• Innovative Thinker: Drive continuous improvement in the delivery of safety, security, and employee health services and champion corporate adoption of a leading safety culture of excellence
• Agile Leader: Able to anticipate complex Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and legislative risks, influencing City-wide policy planning to ensure proactive compliance and best practices
• Intuitive Communicator: Effectively engage and influence staff, union partners, and the Executive Leadership Team to build trust and achieve corporate alignment on health, security and safety priorities
• Ambassador for the City's Culture: Promote the City's Cultural Commitments and Leadership Competencies (https://bit.ly/4brRrXm)
• Inclusive Leader: Embrace our culture of equity, diversity, reconciliation, and inclusion (https://bit.ly/3hd2d95)

Qualifications

• Knowledge, training, and/or education in Business, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field
• Significant experience in a leadership role(s) related to corporate safety, security management and/or health program implementation in a large and complex organization
• Broad exposure to workplace and public safety and employee health practices of excellence within a large organization
• Knowledge of relevant municipal government and provincial legislation
• Combinations of education and experience will be considered

Assets:

• Professional certification related to health and safety program development. Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation
• Master's Degree in a related field
• Apply to lead the Workforce Safety and Employee Health Branch and build a legacy of organizational health and employee excellence!

Conditions of Employment and Work Environment:

• 1 permanent, full-time position
• Hours of Work: 36.9 hours per week, Monday - Friday. This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement with the flexibility to work from both home and the worksite
• Salary: (Annually) $195,497.00 - $244,374.41
• Hire is dependent on a Criminal Information Check satisfactory to the City of Edmonton. There may be a cost associated with this requirement

The City of Edmonton values applicants with a diverse range of skills, experiences and competencies, and encourages you to apply. We strive to provide reasonable access and accommodations throughout the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact employment@edmonton.ca. Learn more about our benefits https://bit.ly/COEbenefits. Talent sourced through this process may be considered for similar opportunities within the City of Edmonton.

Recruitment Consultant: JM/SB

Edmonton rests in the heart of Treaty Six territory in Alberta and the homelands of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation.

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IND 123

Classification Title: BM
Posting Date: May 04, 2026
Closing Date: May 24, 2026 11:59:00 PM (MDT)
Number of Openings (up to): 1 - Permanent Full-time
Union: Management
Department: Employee and Legal Services Division
Work Location(s): Century Place, 11th Floor, 9803 - 102A Avenue Edmonton T5J 3A3

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