Manager Maintenance Operations

2 months ago


Kitchener, Canada City of Kitchener Full time

Manager Maintenance & Operations (Parks, Forestry, Trails)**Competition Number**

2024-028**Job Code**

0619**Posting Date**

January 30, 2024**Closing Date**

February 20, 2024 (at 6:00pm)**Job Status**

Permanent Full-TimeThe
- **City of Kitchener** is a vibrant and dynamic city of approximately 270,000, in the heart of southwestern Ontario. As the largest municipality in Waterloo Region, Kitchener continues to be poised for development and growth, enhancing its reputation as a leader in city-building and innovation, with nationally recognized strategies to build its neighbourhoods, its digital infrastructure and its diverse economy.The
- **City of Kitchener** is WHERE you want to work Learn more about the top reasons to join us:
**Why work at the City of Kitchener**

Position Overview:
- Reporting to the Director of Parks and Cemeteries, the Manager of Parks Operations is responsible for the operations and day-to-day maintenance of the City's Horticulture, Turf, Sports Field, Parks Infrastructure & Amenities, and Downtown teams. We are seeking a dynamic leader, who can lead a team of specialists while developing maintenance programs, and participating in parks planning projects.**Responsibilities**:
- Directly supervise full time, and seasonal staff providing mentorship, direction and guidance
- Ensure that City parkland inventory is maintained in accordance with the standards established by the City
- Manages the City’s horticultural program, Sportsfields’ maintenance program and the Parks Infrastructure and Amenities
- Manages the City’s Downtown team involving major streetscape maintenance, Carl Zehr Square and a broad range of city-wide event supports and seasonal displays
- Plans and develops objectives and determines goals for the section, including administrative, technical, operational, and financial components.
- Determines staffing requirements in accordance with section and seasonal workload and makes recommendations to the Director** **to ensure resources match workload.
- Acts as the primary office of interest, or the steward, with respect to all parks and open space related issues and is profiled in that manner with Council, the public, and other communities
- Develops, recommends, and administers annual budgets
- Oversees project management and manages complex, multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder project teams related to parks, trails, open space development and environmental land management initiatives through development, design and construction phases
- Oversees the provision of emergency service (e.g., winter storm clean up) provides direction and allocation of resources. Ensures, through protocol and communication, that legislated requirements are met
- Contacts various Ministry staff (Grand River Conservation Authority, Ministry of Natural Resources, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Labour) for consultation regarding legislated work requirements, as well as to receive information regarding changes in legislation and standards
- Other duties as assigned

**Requirements**:
- Must have the ability to support and project the organization's core values of trust and respect, collaboration, and change and growth, as well as our leadership traits, which are reflected in employees who:

- 1. Lead by example and expect the same of others;- 2. Recognize accomplishments;- 3. Collaborate with others to realize shared outcomes;- 4. Enable others to be their best;- 5. Look beyond today.- 4-years Honours degree in Landscape Architecture or a related field.
- 4-7 years of related experience including an on-the-job period of adjustment.
- Ability to represent the City and the Division at various external meetings and media opportunities
- Ability to read and interpret legislation, technical journals, manuals, work orders, design drawings, by-laws, correspondence, reports, and supplier information
- Leadership skills in order to effectively manage staff and projects to successful outcomes
- Valid MTO DZ/G class driver's license in good standing.
- Must provide Drivers Abstract at your own expense as a condition of employment.

**We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. Please contact Human Resources at**
**,**
**or 519-741-2200 ext. 7261 to make your needs known, so that we can support your full and equal participation throughout the hiring process.**
- Please note that as per Human Resources Policy _
- HUM-HIR-_
- 110, "Employment of Relatives of Staff Members and Elected Officials":_
- "The immediate relatives of staff of the Human Resources Division, all _
- Directors,_
- General Managers_
- , or the Chief Administrative Officer and Elected Officials shall not be employed by the City in any capacity._
- The immediate relatives of all other Management personnel shall not be employed where such employment would be:_
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