Manager, Asset Management

**Company Biography**

Utilities Kingston is located in Kingston, Ontario, equi-distant from Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa, where the St. Lawrence River meets Lake Ontario and the Rideau Canal (a UNESCO World Heritage site) - Kingston is a stunning, historic city that consistently ranks as one of the best places to live in Canada. Kingston’s 123,363 community-minded citizens enjoy an outstanding quality-of-life enhanced by superb intellectual, recreational and creative opportunities and supported by excellent health care facilities and municipal services, programs and facilities.

Utilities Kingston in unique in Ontario, combining water, wastewater, gas, electricity and telecommunications services in one company under the leadership of a single C.E.O. This shared services delivery model gives Utilities Kingston clear advantages in cost savings and customer service over other utility providers in the province. Utilities Kingston has provided the residents of Kingston with safe and reliable utility services for more than 150 years.

**Primary Duties**

The Manager, Asset Management & Climate Action is responsible for leading the delivery and ongoing management of an effective asset management program for the organization which encompasses multiple utilities. The Manager is also responsible for developing, planning, measuring, monitoring, and reporting on the climate action leadership goals and ensuring their integration into the asset management program.

The Manager will interact on a regular basis with colleagues and peers to thoroughly understand ongoing operating and capital business needs, while providing exceptional leadership, customer service, communication, and strategic insight. Provide recommendations on climate action initiatives, prioritization of the organization’s infrastructure replacement needs given available financial resources and new infrastructure funding supported by evidence-based decision making. Collaborate cross departmentally to discuss and address current and changing business needs by analyzing, recommending, and implementing corporate performance solutions and process enhancements as they relate to the effective use, management and replacement of the utility infrastructure assets and delivering on approved program service levels.

Major Responsibilities
- Provide leadership to the climate action and sustainability group including coaching, motivating, and developing staff, providing resources where required to meet expected outcomes.
- Lead the development, implementation and ongoing maintenance of an enterprise Asset Management Program and support the development of standardized asset management plans for each utility. This will include overseeing the development and alignment of the organization’s approach, policies, strategies, practices, processes, and software systems related to asset management with leading practices, and Municipal, Provincial and Federal standards, reporting requirements and regulations, including the Ontario Regulation 588/17.
- Coordinate the development, implementation and oversight of Utilities Kingston’s asset management program governance structure, practices, and ongoing management.
- Develop, implement, and maintain data collection measures assessing effectiveness, progress and outcomes related to Asset Management Program.
- Accountable for planning, directing, and overseeing asset management activities, including leading and/or supporting the continuous review and improvement of related corporate policies, practices, processes, and systems.
- Collaborate with all departments to implement new corporate policies, practices, processes, and systems that improve work order management, capital planning and asset lifecycle management processes and practices.
- Analyze future funding and expansion requirements to maintain or improve levels of service in accordance with Senior Leadership Team direction.
- Facilitate the complex relationships between asset management and utility operations. Work to modernize and support the strategic asset management objectives through the development of information technology systems that integrate people, data and information, tools, and processes.
- Develop and manage Utilities Kingston’s climate action leadership goals, including Utilities Kingston’s climate change response, long-term planning strategies and corporate frameworks to support the utilities and ensure objectives are communicated throughout the organization.
- With support from the senior leadership team, research, develop, recommend, lead, manage, monitor, measure and report on Climate Action Leadership Plan(s), and programs for the various utility sectors in the organization, for the achievement of carbon neutral operations by 2040.
- Develop internal policies, procedures, and key performance indicators to ensure organizational adherence to provincial and federal policies and related legislations.
- Track sustainability and climate action trend