Construction Manager

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 57797
Ministry: Transportation and Economic Corridors
Location: Stony Plain
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: May 14, 2024
Classification: Senior Manager Zone 2 (M42Z2)

**Salary**: $4,149.76 to $5,269.59 bi-weekly ($108,308 - $137,536/year)

Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC) is a centre of excellence for transportation in North America. We contribute to Alberta's prosperity and quality of life by providing and supporting a safe, innovative and sustainable provincial transportation system and water management infrastructure. With Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors, you can engage in a fulfilling career with diverse room to grow. We believe in building careers, providing opportunities for growth within the organization, and striving to provide our staff with a work-life balance including reasonable hours of work to ensure time with family and to accommodate outside interests.

The ministry promotes a vital and diverse economy by:

- Managing transportation safety.
- Supporting municipalities with public transportation and water/wastewater facilities.
- Expanding and enhancing a well-integrated transportation system and enabling market access.
- Preserving and developing the provincial highway network and water management infrastructure.

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**Role Responsibilities**:
Responsible for the overall delivery of regional construction and rehabilitation programs including the allocation of resources, planning, scheduling and delivery. Major and complex projects such as interchange construction are included in these programs. In addition, contributes to the priority setting of related programs and manages the Region's gravel resources and environmental work plans.

Your responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

- Manage the delivery of the Region's capital construction and highway rehabilitation and implementing a multitude of processes to the delivery stage and final completion of projects.
- Accountable to engage best-value consultants and managing them in an effective manner - request for proposals/selection/technical standards/planning/ constructability/value engineering/monitoring budgets/controls/ performance evaluations.
- Accountable for the overall management of the Region's gravel resources and environmental work plans.
- As per the department's Authority matrix: reviews/approves/awards contracts, utility agreements, services.
- Agreements, consultant agreements, contractual changes, overruns, etc.
- Provide input into construction standards and specifications, policies and programs through committee membership.

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
Systems Thinking: Proper and timely decisions have impacts to the movement of goods, services, people, tourism and municipal growth. To make good decisions this requires both internal and external feedback to assess implications.

Creative Problem Solving: Continuous improvement is required to meet the tighter deliver times as well as addressing the changing needs of growing municipalities.

Agility: There is continual change with mandates, staffing, elected officials, expectations, design standards, so there is a need to be flexible to adapt approaches and find new solutions.

Develop Networks: Developing networks whether internal, cross ministry, external, or municipal, opens lines of communication that will only help with delivery of simple or complex projects.

**Qualifications**:
A university degree in a related field, supplemented and at least six years of related experience is required.

**Equivalency**: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
- 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

**Required**:

- B.Sc. in Civil Engineering with 6 or more years of directly related experience.
- Sound knowledge of roadway planning or programming, and related experience in highway design, construction, or contract administration.
- Extensive supervisory skills in a technical environment.
- Managing employees, administering programs, dealing with municipal councils, consultants, elected officials and the public including special interest groups.
- Valid Class 5 driver's license.
- Eligibility for membership in APEGA.

**Assets**:

- Strong knowledge in business communication theories and principles.
- Relationship building, networking, influencing and negotiating.
- High level of intensity for the coordination of all aspects of capital construction and municipal partnership.