Job Description

General Manager, Canada Line

Are you looking for a company that works on major engineering projects all over the world? Do you want to make a difference by improving the daily lives of communities worldwide? Are you seeking to join an inclusive and diverse team that you can truly count on? You've come to the right place!

AtkinsRéalis Operations and Maintenance is recognized as one of Canada's leading outsourced operations and maintenance solutions experts, a division of AtkinsRéalis Group Inc., the largest engineering and construction firm in Canada, and one of the five largest in the world. We continue to grow our business globally.

Our team members across the country and the globe deliver superior service to every one of our clients. Our people are vital to our success, and we build teams that are second to none.

Our team embraces challenges and is engaged in working together to contribute to our business objectives. We are currently seeking a seasoned and experienced General Manager with a background in light rail transit system operations and maintenance. Overall position responsibility includes operations, maintenance, and asset management services of a fully automated light rail transit system.

The General Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of all operations, maintenance, and restoration of rolling stock, infrastructure, and systems under a lengthy maintenance contract. Position responsibilities include:

A commitment to safety and safety leadership in a challenging union environment. Oversight and management of all activities associated with pre-revenue service mobilization ensuring on time, on budget, operational readiness. Post revenue service start through the contract term, the delivery of maintenance and restoration services and the operation of maintenance facilities and full compliance with contractual and corporate obligations.

Location - Richmond, BC

Key success factors of this position include:

• The safe and efficient delivery of all maintenance and restoration services while achieving a consistent high level of system availability, reliability and performance.
• Building and maintaining a positive relationship with the team, clients, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Effectively planning and managing both the operational, technical, commercial and the financial performance of the business.
• Leadership that delivers a high degree of employee engagement, a strong safety culture and ethical behavior.
• The successful candidate will need to be a capable, innovative and enthusiastic leader, technically competent, skilled in the management of employees and subcontractors, and who can manage and deliver on the requirements of a critical contract involving multiple stakeholders.
• The successful candidate requires an aptitude in dealing with commercial matters to resolve performance expectations and contract compliance with their client.
• Moreover, the successful candidate will be required to establish a relationship with internal business development, bids and pursuits teams to support and forecast potential growth opportunities that include expanding existing contract services and seeking new growth services.

Your role within the team:

• Day to day management, oversight and leadership ensuring operational readiness and ongoing compliance with contractual obligations through the contract term.
• Develop, review, approve and execute plans, directives and procedures that ensure contractual compliance, regulatory compliance, high levels of system availability and optimized asset lifecycle costs, business governance, and absolute safety.
• Build and manage a positive relationship with the team, internal and external customers and clients, promoting and driving a positive work environment.
• Oversight and management of critical maintenance subcontracts and suppliers, and IT systems including a computerized maintenance management and information reporting system, maintenance machinery, spare parts, and consumables.
• Oversight and management of the operations team (Control Room and Field Operations) to deliver a consistently safe and high-quality railway service, meeting the Train Service Plan requirements and all relevant service performance targets.
• Assures compliance to the Safety Plan, HSQE policies and programs, and safe operations of Train Service Plan.
• Promotes and facilitates Safety and ethics moments at all levels. Conducts management visits / inspections and remains available to support all levels of the function.
• Executes the annual operations plan and all elements within the commitments of the plan.
• Conduct routine business performance review meetings with the management team to review the performance of the business, implement measure to address issues as necessary, identify potential risks and or opportunities for improvement, review production plans against target, review safety performance and take appropriate actions as necessary.
• Drive the execution of key strategies and goal.
• Develop, monitor, and manage a comprehensive suite of Key Performance Indicators, specific to each key element of the service that ensures a concise understanding of how each function is performing against target, improvement opportunities, areas to focus on and benefits to the business.

Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?

Because we offer:

• The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
• An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
• A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
• A work environment focused on health and safety.

The ideal candidate:

• Bachelor's Degree in an Engineering discipline or equivalent industry experience.
• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, customer service and team building attributes.
• At least 10 years of senior management operational business experience in an industrial maintenance environment, preferably a closed loop rail system.
• Experience managing and interpreting large complex contract documents is essential.
• A high level of technical competency, particularly related to transit infrastructure, rolling stock and systems.
• Skilled negotiator with excellent interpersonal skills.
• The ability to communicate both orally and in writing in both French and English is preferred.
• Familiarity with regulatory environments, labour standards, and occupational health and safety requirements.
• Mid to advanced level of expertise with MS Office, Project, Outlook and CMMS work order systems, with an ability to quickly learn additional software as required.
• Must be capable of preparing and presenting business plans, presentations, reports, etc. at a Board level.
• A willingness to devote the time and energy that is required to successfully lead a critical organization in a high profile P3 project environment.

Expected compensation for this role is between $190 200.00 and $262 000.00. Base salaries are determined according to several parameters like skills, experience, and potential impact on the role. Internal and external competitiveness are also taken into account in our offers.

Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.