Manager, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program Delivery

Role Responsibilities

The Ministry of Jobs, Economy and Trade is looking for three strategic leaders with regulatory enforcement and supervisory experience to join Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program Delivery within the Safe, Fair and Healthy Workplaces Division as  Manager of Inspections. 

Reporting to the Director of Inspections, this position manages the delivery of the OHS compliance programs and provides leadership and direction to a staff of Occupational Health and Safety Officers responsible for enforcement of the OHS legislation.  

As a member of the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Program Delivery management team, the incumbent provides expert input into the establishment of regional and branch priorities, goals, and program initiatives including the allocation of resources throughout the region.
 
At the work site level, this position plans and implements operational programs and improvements in the compliance program and services for the area, encouraging and coordinating innovative input from OHS staff.  

The Manager is a key position in linking the Mission, Vision and Objectives of the department to the delivery of compliance services.  The position is required to meet branch business plan goals and objectives and provides input into the development and oversees team implementation of program plans.  

To be successful in this role, the successful candidate must possess the following skills and experience:

•  Leadership skills including but not limited to coaching, mentoring and developing people.
• Strong ability to interpret and apply legislation, providing support, advice and quality assurance reviews on enforcement activities.
• Demonstrate ability to strategically plan, efficiently organize and implement projects and programs within deadlines.
• Information-gathering skills, influencing skills and negotiation skills.   
• Ability to utilize conflict resolution strategies concerning internal/external complaints and issues. 
• Ability to address client concerns, often requiring capability to shift approaches and use a non-confrontational strategy.
• Ability to monitor staff’s work levels, assign work as needed and hold staff accountable to expectations.
• Exceptional relationship-building and communications skills, including: excellent listening, writing and organizational skills.
•  Ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationship and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to deal with clients, the general public, other government agencies and elected, or appointed officials, with a high degree of diplomacy, tact, objectivity, good judgement and professionalism.
• Has the proven ability to anticipate issues; use problem solving techniques and make timely and reasoned decisions to meet service delivery targets.
• Ability to deliver presentations to staff, clients and the public.
   

If you are a forward thinking leader who thrives in a fast paced and dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you!

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviours that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans.

We encourage you to have an in-depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

In this role, you will contribute to our team by demonstrating the following behavioral competencies:

• BUILDING COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve desired outcomes.
• DEVELOP NETWORKS In order to maintain close relations with all stakeholders, actively incorporate the needs of the broader group, and ensure overall client satisfaction.
• DEVELOP SELF AND OTHERS The desire to work to develop the long-term capability of others; the ability to analyze the work of others while generating ways of supporting, mentoring, coaching and managing them, therefore enabling others to identify and explore issues and improve their own performance.
• SYSTEMS THINKING Incumbents must have a broad strategic view, and know the impact of work to the department and plan for the short and long term.
• AGILITY Ability to prioritize competing workload pressures in an effective manner and contribute to the organizational goals.
• CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING The ability to analyze the impact and break apart any complex problems is critical, to focus on getting the best end-result for the client.
• DRIVE FOR RESULTS Sets and accomplishes goals and priorities in order to deliver outcomes consistent with departmental objectives and directives.

Qualifications

University degree in a related field plus a minimum of four years of related experience, including progressively responsible assignments concerning co-ordination of programs, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. 

Demonstrated leadership or supervisory experience mentoring and coaching individuals is also required. 

Equivalencies:

Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education

Other Requirements

• Ability to obtain Peace Officer appointment under the Alberta Peace officer Act

Assets

• Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
• Technical knowledge of safety, health, biological, ergonomic, chemical, and physical hazard identification, assessment and control measures.
• Project planning and project management experience/certification.
• Change management experience/certification.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

There are three (3) permanent position available at this time and the hours of work are Monday to Friday – 8:15am - 4:30pm for a total of 36.25 hours.

Working locations are in the following:

•    Calgary (1)- Guinness House, 727 - 7 Avenue S. W., Calgary, AB
•    Edmonton (1)- J. G. O' Donoghue Building, 7000 - 113 Street, Edmonton, AB
•    Lethbridge (1)-Lethbridge Provincial Building, 200-5th Avenue S., Lethbridge, AB

The position requires the successful candidate to be flexible in work time, as this position requires the candidate to participate in on-call/after hour’s rotation (evenings and weekends) which involves rapid mobilization and in field incident response. Incident response may result in exposure to traumatic incident scenes.

The final candidate for this position will undergo an academic check, reference checks and provide a suitable security screening.

Final candidates may be asked to provide a Driver's Abstract. Travel is involved and a valid Alberta Class 5 driver's license is required.

Please indicate your preferred location in your cover letter.

Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education and experience.

Please clearly state the employment dates on your resume with the month and the year. 

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate.

Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages- working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca 
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
•  Positive workplace culture and work-life balance
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement
• Leadership and mentorship programs