About the role
Job ID
2098
Work Type
Hybrid
Business unit
CFO Portfolio
Pay grade
M - OTH
Apply before
03 November 2025
Number of openings
1
Posting type
Internal & External
At ATB, we exist to make it possible for our clients, team members and communities. Our purpose is more than aspirational. It's a real commitment we live every day through our values (what we call the ATB ID).
Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:
Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.
Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.
Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.
About the Role
As ATB’s next Senior Safety & Security Manager, you serve as the technical authority and enterprise program leader for Physical Security and Emergency Management. Reporting to the Director, Facilities & Safety, this individual contributor role’s primary focus is to elevate ATB’s Physical Security ecosystem to industry-leading standards by owning the strategic roadmap and lifecycle management for core security technologies. This role is responsible for driving enterprise alignment, establishing governance, and leading by influence to align the enterprise adoption of physical security best practices.
You will balance specialized technical expertise with corporate risk management, providing leadership on ATB's security and violence frameworks. Furthermore, you will leverage this expertise to support an integrated culture of safety and security across the organization, strategically partnering, working within and adding capacity to the Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) team to achieve comprehensive risk reduction enterprise-wide.
People Places & Spaces (PP&S) is ATB’s real estate and facilities business unit and leads: real estate strategy, workplace optimization and experience, spatial design, construction, project management, leasing and subleasing management, facilities management and maintenance, asset management, facility operations, occupational health & safety, and physical security. PP&S oversees ATB’s 1.5 million square feet of space and the team is deeply connected to transforming banking through ATB’s client facing locations, and leading the way with corporate workplace transformation, both of which bring ATB’s mandate to life and power possibility for Albertans.
Accountabilities
- Technology Program Strategy and Lifecycle Management: Own the strategic roadmap and full lifecycle management for all enterprise physical security technologies (e.g., CCTV, Access Control Systems, Alarm Systems, and intrusion detection). Working in tandem with the Security & Emergency Manager to ensure technical solutions are continuously modernized to meet ATB’s evolving risk profile and business needs.
- Governance and Standards Leadership: Develop, implement, and maintain the mandatory enterprise-wide Physical Security and Emergency Management standards, policies, and operating frameworks, including the ATB security and violence frameworks. Drive adoption and compliance across all business units through effective influence and technical authority.
- Vendor Strategy: Manage key strategic security vendor relationships and contracts, ensuring services meet required SLAs and KPIs. Oversee and provide subject matter expertise for the associated operational and capital budgets, ensuring maximum return on investment for security technologies, personnel and programs.
- Risk Mitigation and Compliance: Conduct high-level, complex physical security risk assessments for construction and design of new branches and corporate centres, translating legislative and regulatory requirements into actionable security programs and standards.
- Emergency Management Program Leadership: Own the framework and operational readiness for physical security and safety incident response. Lead the coordination and subject matter direction during high-severity events, ensuring timely and effective triage, communication, and post-incident review to drive program improvements.
- Occupational Health and Safety: Lead strategic projects that integrate health, safety, security, emergency management, and risk management across functions. Oversee enterprise programs to ensure the safety of team members and clients. Provide essential support and resources to both the broader OH&S and Facilities teams.
- Culture and Alignment: Work cross-functionally across People Places & Spaces (ATB’s Facilities, Safety, Construction & Design team) and the wider ATB organization to centralize the security ecosystem, building a resilient culture of security and emergency preparedness that systematically reduces vulnerabilities and improves organizational response to potential threats.
- Performance Measurement and Benchmarking: Establish, track, report and analyze on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics for the physical security program, to provide insights and trending on current state, including technology performance, incident response times, and compliance levels. Conduct regular benchmarking against financial services industry standards and best practices to identify gaps and drive a framework for continuous program improvement.
- Incident Investigations: Complete root cause incident investigations into security and safety events and provide recommendations and lead implementation of enhancement for systemic improvement in alignment with AOE/SSU teams.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Accreditation:
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or Physical Security Professional (PSP) certification is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, Risk Management, Health & Safety or a related field.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in physical security or safety leadership and program management, with a strong preference for experience within the financial services or a high-risk regulatory environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of Canadian safety legislation, with a CRSP or CRST certification considered a significant asset for cross-functional support.
- Proven experience in developing, managing, and enforcing enterprise-wide security policy and technology roadmaps.
- Strong knowledge of the G Suite of tools; experience with an IWMS software is an asset.
- Valid Class 5 Alberta driver’s license required.
Skill Requirements:
- Strategic Problem-Solving: Ability to analyze complex physical and digital security issues within a financial services context, translating risks into clear, cost-effective governance, strategies and implementable solutions.
- Technical Authority: Unmatched subject matter expertise in modern physical security systems and industry standards (e.g., CPTED principles).
- Enterprise Influence: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to engage and influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to drive standards adoption without direct authority.
- Management and Mentorship: Proven ability to manage strategic vendors and mentor other professionals, building internal capacity and ensuring operational excellence.
- Regulatory Acumen: Strong analytical and interpretive skills to comprehend complex regulatory requirements and industry information affecting ATB's security environment.
- Policy Documentation and Clarity: Exceptional written communication skills with the proven ability to draft, refine, and articulate complex technical standards, regulatory requirements, and policy documents into clear, concise, and user-centric language that drives enterprise-wide adoption.
- Self-Starter and Time Management: A motivated self-starter, you demonstrate strong skills in managing your time and priorities, especially within a hybrid, complex regulatory environment. You consistently meet deadlines to a high standard while effectively balancing multiple responsibilities.
Workplace Arrangement
This position has a hybrid work arrangement. On average, this means 2 days on-site per week. Please note that this is subject to change due to business priorities.
Don’t meet all the requirements on the list?
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes—we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.
We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
What happens next?
If you are shortlisted, you’ll hear from us after the posting closes. Check out our How We Hire page to learn more about our hiring process. If you need any accommodations throughout this process, please let us know at talentteam@atb.com
Stay in touch
We’re excited that you’re interested in a career with ATB. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram to learn more about what our team is up to.
About ATB Financial
For more than 85 years, ATB has been reimagining the way we do business. We’ve grown from one small treasury branch into Alberta’s largest provincially based financial institution, and we don’t have any plans to slow down now. We power possibility for our clients, our team members and our province—and we’re leading the way to a sustainable, innovative and prosperous future.
About ATB Financial
With $62.0 billion in assets, ATB Financial is a leading financial institution that started in Alberta with the focus of putting people first. Our success comes from our more than 5,000 team members who love to deliver exceptional experiences to over 820,000 clients across our Personal and Business Banking, ATB Wealth Management and ATB Capital Markets businesses. ATB provides expert advice, services and products through our many branches and agencies, our 24-hour Client Care Centre, four entrepreneur centres and our digital banking options. ATB powers possibilities for our clients, communities and beyond.
About the role
Job ID
2098
Work Type
Hybrid
Business unit
CFO Portfolio
Pay grade
M - OTH
Apply before
03 November 2025
Number of openings
1
Posting type
Internal & External
At ATB, we exist to make it possible for our clients, team members and communities. Our purpose is more than aspirational. It's a real commitment we live every day through our values (what we call the ATB ID).
Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:
Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.
Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.
Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.
About the Role
As ATB’s next Senior Safety & Security Manager, you serve as the technical authority and enterprise program leader for Physical Security and Emergency Management. Reporting to the Director, Facilities & Safety, this individual contributor role’s primary focus is to elevate ATB’s Physical Security ecosystem to industry-leading standards by owning the strategic roadmap and lifecycle management for core security technologies. This role is responsible for driving enterprise alignment, establishing governance, and leading by influence to align the enterprise adoption of physical security best practices.
You will balance specialized technical expertise with corporate risk management, providing leadership on ATB's security and violence frameworks. Furthermore, you will leverage this expertise to support an integrated culture of safety and security across the organization, strategically partnering, working within and adding capacity to the Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) team to achieve comprehensive risk reduction enterprise-wide.
People Places & Spaces (PP&S) is ATB’s real estate and facilities business unit and leads: real estate strategy, workplace optimization and experience, spatial design, construction, project management, leasing and subleasing management, facilities management and maintenance, asset management, facility operations, occupational health & safety, and physical security. PP&S oversees ATB’s 1.5 million square feet of space and the team is deeply connected to transforming banking through ATB’s client facing locations, and leading the way with corporate workplace transformation, both of which bring ATB’s mandate to life and power possibility for Albertans.
Accountabilities
- Technology Program Strategy and Lifecycle Management: Own the strategic roadmap and full lifecycle management for all enterprise physical security technologies (e.g., CCTV, Access Control Systems, Alarm Systems, and intrusion detection). Working in tandem with the Security & Emergency Manager to ensure technical solutions are continuously modernized to meet ATB’s evolving risk profile and business needs.
- Governance and Standards Leadership: Develop, implement, and maintain the mandatory enterprise-wide Physical Security and Emergency Management standards, policies, and operating frameworks, including the ATB security and violence frameworks. Drive adoption and compliance across all business units through effective influence and technical authority.
- Vendor Strategy: Manage key strategic security vendor relationships and contracts, ensuring services meet required SLAs and KPIs. Oversee and provide subject matter expertise for the associated operational and capital budgets, ensuring maximum return on investment for security technologies, personnel and programs.
- Risk Mitigation and Compliance: Conduct high-level, complex physical security risk assessments for construction and design of new branches and corporate centres, translating legislative and regulatory requirements into actionable security programs and standards.
- Emergency Management Program Leadership: Own the framework and operational readiness for physical security and safety incident response. Lead the coordination and subject matter direction during high-severity events, ensuring timely and effective triage, communication, and post-incident review to drive program improvements.
- Occupational Health and Safety: Lead strategic projects that integrate health, safety, security, emergency management, and risk management across functions. Oversee enterprise programs to ensure the safety of team members and clients. Provide essential support and resources to both the broader OH&S and Facilities teams.
- Culture and Alignment: Work cross-functionally across People Places & Spaces (ATB’s Facilities, Safety, Construction & Design team) and the wider ATB organization to centralize the security ecosystem, building a resilient culture of security and emergency preparedness that systematically reduces vulnerabilities and improves organizational response to potential threats.
- Performance Measurement and Benchmarking: Establish, track, report and analyze on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics for the physical security program, to provide insights and trending on current state, including technology performance, incident response times, and compliance levels. Conduct regular benchmarking against financial services industry standards and best practices to identify gaps and drive a framework for continuous program improvement.
- Incident Investigations: Complete root cause incident investigations into security and safety events and provide recommendations and lead implementation of enhancement for systemic improvement in alignment with AOE/SSU teams.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Accreditation:
- Certified Protection Professional (CPP) or Physical Security Professional (PSP) certification is required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Security Management, Criminal Justice, Risk Management, Health & Safety or a related field.
- 8+ years of progressive experience in physical security or safety leadership and program management, with a strong preference for experience within the financial services or a high-risk regulatory environment.
- Strong technical knowledge of Canadian safety legislation, with a CRSP or CRST certification considered a significant asset for cross-functional support.
- Proven experience in developing, managing, and enforcing enterprise-wide security policy and technology roadmaps.
- Strong knowledge of the G Suite of tools; experience with an IWMS software is an asset.
- Valid Class 5 Alberta driver’s license required.
Skill Requirements:
- Strategic Problem-Solving: Ability to analyze complex physical and digital security issues within a financial services context, translating risks into clear, cost-effective governance, strategies and implementable solutions.
- Technical Authority: Unmatched subject matter expertise in modern physical security systems and industry standards (e.g., CPTED principles).
- Enterprise Influence: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to engage and influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to drive standards adoption without direct authority.
- Management and Mentorship: Proven ability to manage strategic vendors and mentor other professionals, building internal capacity and ensuring operational excellence.
- Regulatory Acumen: Strong analytical and interpretive skills to comprehend complex regulatory requirements and industry information affecting ATB's security environment.
- Policy Documentation and Clarity: Exceptional written communication skills with the proven ability to draft, refine, and articulate complex technical standards, regulatory requirements, and policy documents into clear, concise, and user-centric language that drives enterprise-wide adoption.
- Self-Starter and Time Management: A motivated self-starter, you demonstrate strong skills in managing your time and priorities, especially within a hybrid, complex regulatory environment. You consistently meet deadlines to a high standard while effectively balancing multiple responsibilities.
Workplace Arrangement
This position has a hybrid work arrangement. On average, this means 2 days on-site per week. Please note that this is subject to change due to business priorities.
Don’t meet all the requirements on the list?
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes—we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.
We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
What happens next?
If you are shortlisted, you’ll hear from us after the posting closes. Check out our How We Hire page to learn more about our hiring process. If you need any accommodations throughout this process, please let us know at talentteam@atb.com
Stay in touch
We’re excited that you’re interested in a career with ATB. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram to learn more about what our team is up to.
About ATB Financial
For more than 85 years, ATB has been reimagining the way we do business. We’ve grown from one small treasury branch into Alberta’s largest provincially based financial institution, and we don’t have any plans to slow down now. We power possibility for our clients, our team members and our province—and we’re leading the way to a sustainable, innovative and prosperous future.
About ATB Financial
With $62.0 billion in assets, ATB Financial is a leading financial institution that started in Alberta with the focus of putting people first. Our success comes from our more than 5,000 team members who love to deliver exceptional experiences to over 820,000 clients across our Personal and Business Banking, ATB Wealth Management and ATB Capital Markets businesses. ATB provides expert advice, services and products through our many branches and agencies, our 24-hour Client Care Centre, four entrepreneur centres and our digital banking options. ATB powers possibilities for our clients, communities and beyond.