Manager, Health & Safety

Manager, Health & Safety

Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Expected Salary Range: $124055 - $155069 Annually

Target Variable Performance Pay: 15%

The salary range shown above reflects the expected compensation for this position. The final salary offered will be determined based on a holistic assessment of the candidate’s experience, education, training, and alignment with the role’s requirements. For positions covered by a collective agreement, placement within the range will follow the applicable step or classification.

WORK ILLUSTRATION

Toronto Hydro is seeking a dynamic, values‑driven leader to join our Health & Safety team and play a critical role in strengthening a proactive, learning‑focused safety culture across the organization. The successful candidate will bring a strong sense of urgency, proactively step in to take the lead, and thrive in a complex, high‑speed operating environment where informed action and timely decision‑making are essential.

Reporting to the Director, Health & Safety, this role offers a meaningful opportunity to lead health and safety initiatives while shaping how people think about risk, learning, and operational excellence. As Manager, Health & Safety, you will inspire and develop a team of Health & Safety professionals and partner closely with business leaders to embed safety into everyday work and decision‑making.

In this role, you will lead modern, forward‑looking health and safety strategies that align with organizational priorities, strengthen safety management systems beyond compliance, and support continuous improvement. You will play a key role in improving health and safety performance across the organization through close partnership with business leaders. This includes identifying, assessing, and mitigating hazards, risks, and incidents, while championing Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles rooted in trust, learning, and operational insight, and recognition that performance is shaped by system conditions.

If you are passionate about coaching leaders, developing people, and driving meaningful cultural change through safety, this role offers an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

The successful candidate is expected to behave ethically and follow the established code of business conduct, policies and internal control procedures, laws and regulations governing Toronto Hydro.

You must possess the following competencies and will be pre-screened for those bolded, prior to the interview portion of the selection process. Competencies are listed in order of significance.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide strategic leadership to a multidisciplinary Health and Safety team to deliver both planned and reactive client support aimed at identifying hazards, understanding work as performed, and managing risk.
• Manage and lead escalated work refusals and critical incident investigations, providing visible, thoughtful, and responsive health and safety leadership at incident sites as required.
• Oversee the review, consolidation, and interpretation of health and safety performance data, ensuring timely and accurate reporting.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership by guiding the identification, management, and mitigation of health and safety risks and incidents, and implementing improvement plans to drive a proactive safety culture and enhance organizational performance, while fostering an environment where employees feel safe to speak up, share concerns, and contribute to learning without fear of blame.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to identify risks, establish objectives, target and develop programs that demonstrate a proactive safety culture and continual improvement while ensuring compliance with applicable legislation.
• Advance a proactive, learning‑oriented safety culture that aligns with organizational strategy, legislative obligations, and recognized international standards.
• Partner with the Program Lead to embed enterprise health and safety standards, frameworks, and methodologies consistently across the organization.
• Champion Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) principles by enabling operational learning, strengthening critical controls, and reducing exposure to serious harm.
• Provide executive oversight and guidance for serious incident reviews, ensuring systemic issues and improvement opportunities are identified and addressed.
• Lead sensitive and complex health and safety investigations, ensuring consistent problem definition, evidence review, system‑learning analysis, and development of effective, sustainable actions to strengthen system performance.
• Provide oversight and approval of investigation and incident assessment deliverables, ensuring cross‑functional alignment, action ownership, and timely closure.
• Support and influence the serious incident review process by challenging findings, driving organizational learning, and advancing meaningful, sustainable safety improvements.

REQUIREMENTS

• Undergraduate university degree in Health, Safety and/or Industrial Hygiene or a related science field.
• Professional designation such as Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or Registered Occupational Hygienist (ROH) required.
• Seven (7) to ten (10) years of progressive experience in health and safety program design, development, implementation and reporting and auditing.
• Three (3) to five (5) years of progressive/project leadership experience.
• Experience with health and safety management systems.
• Experience with ISO 45001 certifications.
• Master’s degree in science, in fields of Occupational Health, Safety, Industrial Hygiene, or related science field (preferred).
• Utility/Industry experience preferred.
• In‑depth knowledge and understanding of current industry Environment and Safety regulations, standards, and best practices, and their application within complex operational systems.
• Proven project management, problem‑solving, and decision‑making capabilities in complex environments with competing priorities and system constraints.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, influence, and change management skills to support a learning‑oriented and trust‑based safety culture.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex risk and learning insights clearly across all levels of the organization.

To support the overall well‑being and success of our employees, Toronto Hydro provides a comprehensive total rewards package which includes:

• 24/7 access to Employee & Family Assistance Program and Virtual Healthcare.
• Company‑paid life insurance and long term disability.
• Spending account to support fitness goals (e.g. gym memberships).
• Competitive paid time off (including vacation and parental leave).
• Defined Benefits Pension Plan through OMERS.
• Career development and tuition reimbursement.
• Exciting employee engagement and appreciation events throughout the year.

This position is based in a hybrid environment allowing for remote work two days per week, based on business needs. Employees will be required to come onsite Tuesday to Thursday. You are expected to live in Ontario and within reasonable commuting distance of the office.

Toronto Hydro is committed to leveraging new technologies to support an efficient and inclusive recruitment process. As part of this, artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be used to assist in screening, assessing, or selecting applicants for this position. These tools are used in combination with human decision‑making to ensure fairness and consistency.

ACCESSIBILITY AND APPLICATION SUPPORT

Toronto Hydro is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Thank you for considering a career with Toronto Hydro. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates. If you’re having difficulty using our online application system and require accommodation, please email View email address on ca.talent.com or call View phone number on ca.talent.com. Toronto Hydro is pleased to provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals throughout the job application process. Please note this email is for accommodation requests only. Resumes sent to this email address will not be considered. Learn more about our commitment to accessibility.