Job Information

Job Title: Director OHS & Disability Management

Job Requisition ID: 88596

Ministry: Public Safety and Emergency Services

Location: Edmonton

Full or Part-Time: Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Permanent

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: November 2, 2026

Classification: Senior Manager - Zone 2

Salary: $5,139.30 to $6,526.16 bi-weekly ($134,136 - $170,333/year)

Please note: It is anticipated that this position will transition to the new Alberta Sheriffs Police Service at a future date.

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Executive Director, People and Org Development, the Director, Occupational Health and Safety and Disability Management is accountable for building, leading and continuously improving the provincial systems required to keep Alberta Sheriffs Police Service (ASPS) employees safe, capable and contributing, and to manage the formal intersection between health and work.

The Director provides enterprise leadership across occupational health and safety, occupational health services, abilities and disability management, workplace accommodation, fitness for duty, occupational injury and illness, WCB, return to work and reintegration. The role ensures ASPS meets its responsibilities as an employer while supporting police officers, peace officers and civilian professionals in operational, safety-sensitive and corporate environments across Alberta.

- Build and lead occupational health services and the ASPS occupational health and safety management framework.
- Overseeing hazard management, workplace inspections, incident and exposure investigations, corrective actions and legislative compliance.
- Leading disability management, accommodation, WCB,



fitness for duty, modified duties, return to work and reintegration.
- Establishing consistent, evidence-informed practices for occupational exposures, health surveillance and operational fitness while maintaining clinical confidentiality.
- Coordinating multidisciplinary support for complex health-related employment cases and operational reintegration.
- Partnering across HR, Health and Wellness, Labour Relations, Development and Standards, operations and external providers.
- Monitoring workforce health and safety trends to identify risks and prevention opportunities and inform senior leadership decisions.
- Establishing provincial policies, standards and accountabilities and building organizational capability in occupational health, safety and disability management.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in-depth understanding of the competencies required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

- Systems Thinking: Understands how occupational health, safety, disability management, accommodation, workforce availability and operational readiness interact across a provincial police service.
- Drive for Results: Establishes explicit standards, accountabilities,



service measures and improvement priorities that produce timely, consistent and sustainable health, safety and reintegration outcomes.
- Develop Networks: Builds trusted relationships with employees, leaders, unions, WCB, clinical professionals, rehabilitation providers, insurers and public-safety partners.
- Agility: Adapts policies, case-management approaches and service delivery to changing legislation, operational pressures, emerging risks and workforce needs.
- Creative Problem Solving: Develops practical, evidence-informed solutions to complex fitness-for-duty, accommodation, disability, return-to-work and occupational-risk issues.
- Build Collaborative Environments: Creates clarity among clinical, wellness, human resources, training and operational partners while protecting confidentiality and maintaining appropriate decision authorities.
- Develop Self and Others: Builds multidisciplinary capability through clear professional standards, coaching, continuous learning, quality assurance and succession planning.

Qualifications

University graduation in occupational health, health sciences, occupational safety, disability management, rehabilitation, human resources or a related field, plus seven (7) years of progressively responsible related experience, including significant leadership responsibility.

Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

- one year of education for one year of experience; or
- one year of experience for one year of education.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Assets

- Senior leaders

📌 Director OHS and Disability Management (Calgary)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Calgary