Working with us
We engage great people who contribute to meaningful work that makes a positive difference in our community. As an employee, you will be part of a progressive, service focused and award winning employer with a diverse and inclusive work environment. At Halton, you are encouraged to grow and succeed in your career and are recognized for your accomplishments and contributions.
Enjoy a Rewarding Career
Joining Halton Region opens the door to a fulfilling career. Our comprehensive compensation package and employee recognition program are a few reasons why we have been named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employer for over 10 years.
Nurture Your Professional Growth
Our success stems from the expertise and leadership of our people. We invest in our team’s growth and encourage them to succeed by offering continuing education, meaningful challenges and leadership development opportunities.
Connect to a Supportive Culture
Halton prioritizes employee well-being by promoting health, safety and wellness. We take pride in our inclusive work culture built on a foundation of mutual respect. Together, we provide high-quality programs and services to residents that help make Halton a great place to live and work.
Working with us
We engage great people who contribute to meaningful work that makes a positive difference in our community. As an employee, you will be part of a progressive, service focused and award winning employer with a diverse and inclusive work environment. At Halton, you are encouraged to grow and succeed in your career and are recognized for your accomplishments and contributions.
Being recognized as one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employers for the past 10 years and one of Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates for the past two years are monumental achievements. I am proud of the great workplace we have and all our talented staff at the Region. Regional staff work each and every day to support our community to deliver our essential programs and services, including during the COVID-19 pandemic where they have worked tirelessly to keep residents safe and healthy. Making sure we have the supports in place to create a positive work environment will always be a priority for our exceptional workforce.
— Gary Carr, Halton Regional Chair
Enjoy a Rewarding Career
Joining Halton Region opens the door to a fulfilling career. Our comprehensive compensation package and employee recognition program are a few reasons why we’ve been named one of Greater Toronto’s Top Employer.
Nurture Your Professional Growth
Our success stems from the expertise and leadership of our people. We invest in our team’s growth and encourage them to succeed by offering continuing education, meaningful challenges and leadership development opportunities.
Connect to a Supportive Culture
Halton prioritizes employee well-being by promoting health, safety and wellness. We take pride in our inclusive work culture built on positivity and mutual respect, and we work together to provide high-quality programs and services that help make Halton a great place to live.
What we offer
Employee Recognition
Our employees have a positive impact on the community and in our workplace. Through our Employee Recognition program, we acknowledge teams and individuals for achievements that positively impact the organization or Halton residents. We host an annual Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony to celebrate the many great things our employees achieve as well as their long-service milestones.
Employee Training and Development
We provide employees with a number of initiatives to support development including: coaching, mentoring, acting assignments, talent development plans and regular professional development opportunities through our learning management program. It offers over 60 on-site, virtual and e-learning courses annually in the areas of career Development, customer service, communication, wellness and health & safety.
Our Emergent Leader program is a self-directed, online learning opportunity to support frontline employees who would like to develop their leadership skills. Through participation in the Emergent Leader program, staff get a greater understanding of the role of a frontline people leader. They learn the necessary knowledge, behaviours, skills and values required for effective people leadership including an increased awareness of their own leadership competence.
Leadership Development
We offer learning through programs designed to develop one’s capacity for leadership roles in our organization. We also offer learning programs for leaders in an effort to reinforce supervisor and manager level knowledge, skills and values, as well as, providing a baseline for effective frontline people leadership at Halton.
Leadership foundations is a six-month development program consisting of formal, informal and on-the-job learning designed for supervisor level staff.
Management Excellence is a one-year development program consisting of formal, classroom and virtual learning opportunities designed to develop management level staff leadership capabilities. We offer learning through programs designed to develop one’s capacity for leadership roles in our organization.
Employee Wellness
We recognize wellness is an ongoing journey of balance. Our programming supports the following eight dimensions of wellness:
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Financial
- Social
- Occupational
- Emotional & Psychological
- Intellectual
- Environmental
Our Health, Safety & Wellness team also organizes yoga classes, nutritional workshops, mental health workshops and other major corporate wellness initiatives.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
The Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees and eligible family members. It provides a confidential and voluntary support service that can help employees make changes in their lives. This service helps employees find solutions to many challenges at any age and stage of life.
Our EAP can help with:
- Addiction supports and counselling
- Nutrition counselling
- Family and Relationship supports
- Researching child and eldercare resources
- Financial counselling
- Helping employees achieve personal well-being
Total Rewards
Total Rewards Program
The Total Rewards portfolio includes compensation, benefits and employee recognition.
Compensation and Benefits
Halton Region's comprehensive compensation and benefit plans along with our unique employee recognition program are a few reasons why we are one of the GTA’s Top Employers.
Our goal is to attract applicants who are committed to delivering excellent customer service to residents and businesses in Halton Region.
Halton Region’s competitive compensation and benefits packages enable the Region to attract and retain a highly qualified and diverse workforce by offering the following:
- Individual Performance Pay Program (IPP)
- Halton Region believes in growth and development by encouraging strong employee performance. We have a pay for performance system in place for eligible employees. We evaluate employees annually, and salary increases are based on performance.
- Pension Plan – Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
- Career Development – educational tuition assistance, professional membership dues, conferences
- All eligible Halton employees receive the following benefits as part of the Group Benefit Plan:
- Extended health care including prescriptions, semi-private hospitalization, and out of province travel insurance
- Vision care
- Dental benefits including regular cleanings, orthodontics for dependent children, dentures, bridges and crowns
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability benefits protect employees from financial hardship due to illness or injury
- Health Care Spending Account (HCSA)that provides health care supplies and services not covered by the health and dental plan. Employees can apply additional funds to specialty services and prescribed medical equipment, or use it to top-up other coverage (like dental and vision) based on specific needs.
Pension Plan
Halton Region is part of the Ontario Municipal Eligible Employees Retirement System (OMERS). Employees contribute to their retirement savings through payroll deduction. Being an OMERS member provides you with a great opportunity to plan for the future.
OMERS provides monthly payments when employees retire as an OMERS Plan member.
Plan includes income for life, employer-matched contributions, security, survivor benefits and disability protection.
Career Development
The Region invests in the ongoing career development of employees through internal and external training and other development opportunities.
The following benefits are offered to support training and development at Halton Region:
- Educational tuition assistance
- Professional membership dues
- Conferences
Employee Recognition
Our employees have a positive impact on the community, and our workplace. Their valued contributions help make Halton a great place to live and work. Through our Employee Recognition program, we acknowledge teams and individuals for achievements that positively impact the organization or Halton residents. We host an annual Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony to celebrate the many great things our employees achieve as well as their long-service milestones.
Employee Training and Development
We provide employees with a number of initiatives to support development including: coaching, mentoring, acting assignments, talent development plans and regular professional development opportunities through our learning management program. It offers over 60 on-site, virtual and e-learning courses annually in the areas of Career Development, Customer Service, Communication, Wellness and Health & Safety.
Our Emergent Leader program is a self-directed, online learning opportunity to support frontline employees who would like to develop their leadership skills. Through participation in Emergent Leader, staff gather a greater understanding of the role of a frontline people leader. They learn the necessary knowledge, behaviours, skills and values required for effective people leadership including an increased awareness of their own leadership competence.
Leadership Development
We offer learning through programs designed to develop one’s capacity for leadership roles in our organization.
We also offer learning programs for leaders in an effort to reinforce supervisor and manager level knowledge, skills and values, as well as, providing a baseline for effective first-line people leadership at Halton.
- Leadership foundations is a six-month development program consisting of formal, informal and on-the-job learning designed for Supervisor level staff.
- Management Excellence is a one-year development program consisting of formal, classroom and virtual learning opportunities designed to develop Management level staff leadership capabilities. We offer learning through programs designed to develop one’s capacity for leadership roles in our organization.
Employee Wellness
We recognize wellness is an ongoing journey of balance. Our programming supports the following eight dimensions of wellness:
- Physical
- Spiritual
- Financial
- Social
- Occupational
- Emotional & Psychological
- Intellectual
- Environmental
Our Health, Safety & Wellness team also organizes Yoga Classes, Nutritional Workshops, Mental Health workshops and other major corporate wellness initiatives.
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
The Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees and eligible family members. It provides a confidential and voluntary support service that can help employees make changes in their lives. This service helps employees find solutions to many challenges at any age and stage of life.
Our EAP can help with:
- Addiction supports and counselling
- Nutrition counselling
- Family and Relationship supports
- Researching child and eldercare resources
- Financial counselling
- Helping employees achieve personal well-being
Total Rewards
Total Rewards Program
The Total Rewards portfolio includes compensation, benefits and employee recognition.
Compensation and Benefits
Halton Region's comprehensive compensation and benefit plans along with our unique employee recognition program are a few reasons why we are one of the GTA’s Top Employers.
Our goal is to attract applicants who are committed to delivering excellent customer service to residents and businesses in Halton Region.
Halton Region’s competitive compensation and benefits packages enable the Region to attract and retain a highly qualified and diverse workforce by offering the following:
- Individual Performance Pay Program (IPP)
- Group Benefit Plan – Dental, EHC, Life, AD&D
- Health Care Spending Account (HCSA)
- Pension Plan – Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS)
- Career Development – educational tuition assistance, professional membership dues, conferences
Individual Performance Pay Program (IPP)
Halton Region believes in growth and development by encouraging strong employee performance. We have a pay for performance system in place for eligible employees. We evaluate employees annually, and salary increases are based on performance.
Group Benefit Plan (Health, Dental, Life Insurance and Disability Benefits)
All eligible Halton employees receive the following benefits:
- Extended health care including prescriptions, semi-private hospitalization, and out of province travel insurance
- Vision care
- Dental benefits including regular cleanings, orthodontics for dependent children, dentures, bridges and crowns
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability benefits protect employees from financial hardship due to illness or injury
Health Care Spending Account (HCSA)
In addition to our Group Benefit Plan, employees receive a Health Care Spending Account that provides health care supplies and services not covered by the health and dental plan. Employees can apply additional funds to specialty services and prescribed medical equipment, or use it to top-up other coverage (like dental and vision) based on specific needs.
Pension Plan
Halton Region is part of the Ontario Municipal Eligible Employees Retirement System (OMERS). Through payroll deduction, employees contribute to their retirement savings. Being an OMERS member provides you with a great opportunity to plan for the future.
- OMERS provides monthly payments when employees retire as an OMERS Plan member.
- Plan includes income for life, employer-matched contributions, security, survivor benefits, and disability protection.
Career Development
The Region invests in the ongoing career development of employees through internal and external training and other development opportunities.
The following benefits are offered to support training & development at Halton Region:
- Educational tuition assistance
- Professional membership dues
- Conferences