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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px\"><img width=\"650\" height=\"129\" src=\"https://www.hamilton.ca/sites/default/files/2024-01/coh-hr-jobs-logo.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><br><br>Contribute to the City of Hamilton, one of Canada’s largest cities - home to a diverse and strong economy, an active and inclusive community, a robust cultural and dining scene, hundreds of<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> kilometers of hiking trails and natural beauty just minutes from the downtown core, and so much more. Join our diverse team of talented and ambitious staff who embody our values of sensational service, courageous change, steadfast integrity, collective ownership and being engaged empowered employees. Help us achieve our vision of being the best place to raise a child and age successfully. #BeTheReason</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Job ID #31787: Senior Project Manager, Occupational Health and Safety</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Union: </span>Non-Union</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Job Description ID #: A15742</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Close date:</span> Interested applicants please submit your application online at <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https://www.hamilton.ca/city-council/jobs-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.hamilton.ca/city-council/jobs-city</a> </span>by <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold\">4:00 p.m. on June 10, 2026. </span></span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Vacancy type: <span style=\"color: rgb(35, 111, 161); font-weight: bold\">New</span><span style=\"color: rgb(35, 111, 161)\"> vacancy </span></span></span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 87, 142); font-weight: bold\">Internal applicants should apply with your work e-mail address</span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">.</span> External applicants are considered only after the internal posting process has been completed. Only applicants chosen for an interview will be contacted</span><br></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">SUMMARY OF DUTIES</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">The Senior Project Manager, Occupational Health and Safety, leads strategic planning, development, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of the City’s corporate occupational health and safety programs to facilitate risk mitigation and enable compliance across the organization. This includes overseeing the development of policy, procedures, guidelines, tools, resources and training that facilitate and enable departments to appropriately implement occupational health and safety programs.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Reporting to the Manager of Health, Safety and Wellness, the incumbent works collaboratively with leaders, employees, Joint Health and Safety Committees, union representatives and other stakeholders to ensure programs are compliant, enable implementation and drive continuous health and safety performance improvement.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Utilizes expert risk mitigation strategies and provides technical guidance, education and training on a variety of health and safety hazards, risks and issues. The incumbent designs processes and finds new approaches to facilitate program compliance and adoption. Enables continuous improvement, including through the use of technology.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Leads occupational health and safety projects and compliance initiatives utilizing a project management and change management methodology delivering results for the organization and City team.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrates leadership competencies that include:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Behaviours are aligned with organizational principles and values</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Sets an example adhering to the provisions of applicable health and safety legislation and related City of Hamilton policies and procedures</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Behaviours foster a high-performance continuous improvement health and safety culture.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Strategic Program Management </span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Using a collaborative approach, works with key internal stakeholders to identify organizational needs and lead the development and implementation of occupational health and safety programs at the corporate level. Using subject matter expertise, program development utilizes best practice methodologies that enables effective planning, analysis, development, implementation and evaluation of occupational health and safety programs for the City. Program development can include a broad range of health and safety standards such policies, procedures, guidelines, resources, tools, training, process mapping, etc.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ensures that program development and implementation utilize innovative and leading best practices and is aligned with change management principles. Works with departmental leaders to support implementation of corporate occupational health and safety programs into business units, including, but not limited to, delivering education, training and other supports as required.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Participates in task forces, corporate initiatives, and committees as required. Leads targeted interventions to improve occupational health and safety performance in divisions or departments across the organization.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Works closely with other Health Safety and Wellness team members, and demonstrates leadership, for the planning and delivery of programming across the enterprise.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Audit, Assessment and Testing</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Conducts periodic investigations, testing, gap analysis, risk assessments, sampling and/or inspections to identify workplace health and safety issues and/or trends, and develops findings and recommendations, in a written report to internal stakeholders and departmental leaders.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develops and delivers corporate and/or departmental occupational health and safety audits. Audits are documented in written reports.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Identifies and analyses risk making recommendations to support targeted injury and illness prevention programs, emerging issues and resolution of complex health and safety matters.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Represents the City with provincial ministries, regulatory agencies or boards regarding matters related to occupational health and safety.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Measurement, Analysis and Reporting</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Collects, analyzes, and reports on occupational health, safety and wellness data enterprise wide, including leading and lagging indicators and trends. Generates insights and makes recommendations for improvements to corporate programs and/or departmental interventions to address root causes.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Maintains knowledge of changing legislation, assess impact to the organization and communicate recommendations to achieve compliance.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develops and prepares reports to support occupational health and safety decision making at all levels in the organization. Presents findings to organizational leaders to inform decision-making and improve overall health and safety performance.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Communication, Education and Training</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develops and delivers occupational health, safety, and wellness communications to promote a high-performance health and safety culture.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Develops, facilitates and delivers a wide range of education and training programs, to all levels of the employees and leaders, to foster risk mitigation and compliance in across the organization with legislation and City policies, procedures and guidelines (e.g., workplace violence prevention, confined space entry, personal protective equipment, lock out tag out, machine guarding, supervisor competency, WHMIS, hazard recognition and control, accident reporting and investigation, etc.)</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Delivers presentations to senior level leaders, as required.</span><br></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Performs other duties as assigned that are directly related to the responsibilities of the position.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">QUALIFICATIONS</span></span></p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Post-secondary education in occupational health and safety or risk management, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience within a large complex organization.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">A relevant professional designation as a Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Registered Occupational Hygienist (ROH) or Certified Health and Safety Consultant, is an asset.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Project Management Certification is an asset.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Change Management Certification is an asset.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Extensive years of experience driving results in occupational health and safety performance in a unionized public or private sector organization. Experience in a municipal, health care or community service organization is preferred.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Subject matter expertise pertaining to occupational health and safety legislation and regulations (e.g. Occupational Health and Safety Act, associated regulations, Employment Standards Act, Highway Traffic Act, etc.). Ability to maintain knowledge of changing legislation, assess impact to the organization and communicate recommendations to facilitate compliance.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">High proficiency in risk management. Exceptional knowledge of factors that pose potential or actual danger to health or safety in the workplace and the appropriate actions to be taken to ensure the health and safety of staff in accordance with applicable legislation, risk mitigation and City policies and</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Extensive experience leading projects and full-cycle program development, including evaluation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Leads with integrity, trust and maintains professionalism. Utilizes a highly collaborative approach and builds meaningful relationships to drive results.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated experience designing evidence informed occupational health and safety programs, training, and e-learning. Experience with e-learning software (e.g. Articulate) and learning management systems is also an asset. Certification and/or experience in utilizing adult learning A highly effective facilitator and trainer.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Advanced written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrates clear communication and can adapt approach to meet the needs of various stakeholders.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Superior computer skills and application skills such as SharePoint, Microsoft applications, Power BI. Ability to use technology to connect data, generate insights and create high quality reporting.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated strategic thinking. Adept at analyzing information and data to generate insights and make recommendations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and innovation.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Excellent organizational and project management Demonstrated ability to organize work, set priorities and meet multiple deadlines.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Proven investigation and problem-solving skills in a multidisciplinary environment.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to exercise discretion, judgement, and work with a degree of autonomy.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Possession of a valid Class “G” driver’s license and access to a personal vehicle.</span></li>\n</ol>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Disclaimer:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt\">Be advised that Human Resources frequently audits resumes of internal/external applicants to ensure/validate information provided is consistent and trustworthy. Falsification of information provided at any time throughout the recruitment process may be grounds for disqualification, and for internal applicants, subject to discipline up to and including termination.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Terms:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The City is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes. Consistent with our Values and Corporate Culture Pillars, the City of Hamilton is committed to providing equitable treatment to all with respect to barrier-free employment and accommodation without discrimination. The City will provide accommodation for applicant</span>s in all aspects of the hiring process, up to the point of undue hardship.  If you have an accommodation need, please contact Human Resources as soon as possible to make appropriate arrangements. </span></p>",
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