Senior Manager Employee Health, Safety and Wellness
- Richmond, BC, Canada
Salary: $142,909- $173,634/annually · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- Salary: $142,909- $173,634/annually
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- 8 to 10 years’ experience driving health, safety, and wellness, disability management and wellness from an organizational perspective.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
As the Senior Manager of Employee Health, Safety, and Wellness, you'll be at the heart of our dynamic People and Culture Division, reporting directly to the Director. This role is a unique opportunity to drive impactful change by overseeing the operations of a vital department and ensuring the seamless delivery of health, safety, and wellness services across the organization.
You’ll lead a dedicated team, maintaining exceptional internal standards while ensuring compliance with both legal and regulatory requirements.
As a strategic influencer, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing and executing WorkSafeBC’s health, safety, and wellness initiatives. You'll provide expert guidance to both People and Culture and line management, ensuring health and safety policies are effectively applied. You'll also represent WorkSafeBC on various committees, delivering powerful presentations to key internal and external stakeholders. The future of health, safety, and wellness is in your hands.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll ensure we offer effective programs to help people recover when they’ve been injured at work.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role combines time in our offices with flexibility for remote work.
Learn more: Find out what we offer.
Want to apply?
You’ll lead a dedicated team, maintaining exceptional internal standards while ensuring compliance with both legal and regulatory requirements.
As a strategic influencer, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing and executing WorkSafeBC’s health, safety, and wellness initiatives. You'll provide expert guidance to both People and Culture and line management, ensuring health and safety policies are effectively applied. You'll also represent WorkSafeBC on various committees, delivering powerful presentations to key internal and external stakeholders. The future of health, safety, and wellness is in your hands.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll ensure we offer effective programs to help people recover when they’ve been injured at work.
Working at WorkSafeBC
We serve the workers and employers across B.C., and we do that best when we're together. It's how we collaborate, learn from one another, and develop our people.
This role combines time in our offices with flexibility for remote work.
- Strategically manage Health, Safety, and Wellness Operations: Oversee Employee Health, Safety, and Wellness programs for WorkSafeBC employees.
- Motivate and influence staff to achieve divisional priorities, providing coaching, feedback, and support while managing financial resources.
- Create departmental business plans aligned with strategic objectives and performance goals, continuously monitoring and adjusting activities to meet business plan objectives.
- Lead the development, maintenance, and promotion of the organization’s health and safety management system.
- Support Organizational Culture: Foster a strong health and safety culture across the organization.
- Manage Staff and Financial Resources: Direct assigned staff to achieve divisional priorities, providing coaching, feedback, and support while managing financial resources.
- Consistently models the appropriate level of organizational behaviours expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking.
- Work as a seasoned leader driving and implementing in-house H&S
- Work collaboratively with groups and other departments.
- Provide experience in strong organizational initiatives and strategic thinking.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Show experience in following management system frameworks.
- A people leader with strong change management skills.
- A degree in health or a related discipline.
- 8 to 10 years’ experience driving health, safety, and wellness, disability management and wellness from an organizational perspective. Progressive leadership experience.
- Demonstrated experience in developing, implementing, and managing health and safety programs within an organization.
- Experience working within a regulatory or compliance-heavy environment, particularly in workers’ compensation, disability management, or risk management.
- In-depth knowledge of health, safety, and wellness regulations, policies, and best practices.
- Understanding of the strategic goals and priorities of health, safety, and wellness within a larger organizational context.
Learn more: Find out what we offer.
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- This position may be filled by a pre-posting placement
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Responsibilities
Lead WorkSafeBC’s employee health, safety, and wellness operations, including managing staff and financial resources and developing business plans aligned with organizational priorities. Maintain and promote the health and safety management system, strengthen organizational safety culture, and advise leaders on policies and initiatives while representing the organization on committees.
Requirements
Requires a degree in health or a related discipline and 8 to 10 years of organizational experience in health, safety, wellness, and disability management, along with progressive leadership experience. Candidates should have experience developing and managing health and safety programs, knowledge of relevant regulations and best practices, and the ability to lead change and work effectively in compliance-heavy environments.
Skills
- Health And Safety Leadership
- Employee Wellness
- Disability Management
- Health And Safety Program Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Strategic Planning
- People Leadership
- Change Management
- Coaching
- Financial Resource Management
- Analytical And Problem-Solving Skills
- Organizational Collaboration
- Health And Safety Management Systems
- Stakeholder Presentations
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Categories
- Security & Safety
- Management & Leadership
- Human Resources
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Employee Health
- Occupational Health And Safety
- Employee Wellness
- Disability Management
- Workers’ Compensation
- Risk Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Health And Safety Management System
- Health And Safety Programs
- Business Planning
- Strategic Objectives
- Performance Goals
- Organizational Culture
- People And Culture
- Change Management
- Financial Resource Management
- Staff Coaching
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Committee Representation
- Internal Standards
- Health And Safety Regulations
- Wellness Initiatives