Director, Health, Safety Organizational Resilience

Competition number: 26-106 Salary: $ - $/Year Job Type: Permanent Full Time Closing Date:
November 4, 2026

The Director of Occupational Health, Safety & Organizational Resilience provides enterprise-wide strategic leadership for the transformation, modernization, and continuous improvement of the City's Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Program. As a key member of the City's leadership team, the Director will shape and execute a forward-looking Corporate Safety Strategy that strengthens organizational resilience, reduces risk, and advances a culture of safety excellence across a diverse municipal workforce.

The Director will lead organizational change and influence leaders at all levels of the organization to embed safety, risk management, prevention, and employee well-being into strategic and operational decision-making. This position will build alignment across departments, engage union and employee partners, and create the conditions necessary for sustainable adoption of new policies, practices, systems, and behaviours.

The Director will provide strategic advice to senior leadership on occupational health and safety, enterprise risk, regulatory compliance, emerging workplace risks, and organizational readiness. The role will balance strategic leadership with operational oversight, translating the City's safety vision into measurable outcomes, strengthened organizational capability, and sustained cultural change.

Success in this role will require a leader who can influence, build trust across diverse stakeholder groups, navigate competing priorities, and create shared accountability for safety outcomes. Formalizing governance mechanisms, notably through a cross-functional team (CFT), which brings together operational, administrative, and safety leaders to provide coordination, consistency and accountability.

As the Director Occupational Health, Safety & Organizational Resilience, your key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the development and execution of the City's Corporate Safety Strategy, establishing strategic priorities, objectives, performance measures, and accountabilities that align occupational health and safety with the City's broader strategic direction.
• Lead the transformation and modernization of the City's OHS Program, redesigning policies, processes, systems, and practices to reflect legislative requirements, leading practices, emerging risks, and the evolving needs of the organization.
• Lead organizational change associated with the transformation of the safety program, developing and executing change management strategies that build awareness, create alignment, address resistance, engage stakeholders, and achieve sustained adoption of new approaches and practices.
• Influence and partner with senior leaders, departmental leadership teams, managers, and employees to embed safety and risk management into strategic planning, operational decision-making, workforce practices, and organizational performance.
• Build organizational alignment and shared accountability for safety, using strong influencing, relationship-building, consultation, negotiation, and communication skills to bring diverse stakeholders together around common objectives.
• Establish and strengthen corporate safety governance, defining clear roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, escalation processes, and decision-making structures to support consistent and effective safety practices across the organization.
• Drive measurable improvements in safety performance, leveraging data, trends, leading and lagging indicators, risk assessments, and organizational insights to identify priorities and evaluate the effectiveness of safety strategies and interventions.
• Provide strategic advice and recommendations to the senior leadership team and Council, as appropriate, on significant health and safety risks, regulatory requirements, organizational exposure, emerging issues, and opportunities to strengthen workplace safety and resilience.
• Develop and maintain trusted relationships with managers, employees, union representatives, and other key stakeholders, fostering collaboration, credibility, transparency, and shared ownership of safety outcomes.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of safety professionals, building organizational capability, professional expertise, leadership capacity, and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Oversee significant incident investigations and organizational learning, ensuring rigorous…