Wanted:
General Manager, Infrastructure & Planning
The Town of Edson seeks an experienced, professional, and highly engaged candidate to step into the role of General Manager, Infrastructure & Planning.
The candidate selected will have an exceptionally strong track record managing teams at the Executive Level. They will bring strong, steady, and visionary leadership to a Team of experts overseeing a massive portfolio that includes capital projects, urban planning, public infrastructure, utilities, waste management, and fleet management. Among other things, this job includes:
- Providing for the consistent and continuously improving delivery of critical municipal services to the residents of Edson
- Ensuring for the achievement of core strategic objectives as defined by Council and refined by Administration
- Overseeing a coherent and effective asset-management program
- Ensuring for the development and redevelopment of critical bylaws, policies, and procedures
- Ensuring organizational compliance within a highly complex, diverse, and multi-level regulatory framework
- Overseeing procurement and the management of multimillion dollar contracts
- Ensuring consistent budgetary compliance despite constantly shifting conditions and ever-present challenges
- Liaising with external government agencies regarding relevant regulations, policies, and funding
- Securing reliable sources of revenue and grant-funding, where available
The Candidate
The person in this role must be an exceptional and proven leader with a track record in leading organizational change, ensuring executive values and objectives are correctly translated through all levels of the I&P Branch.
Further, they must be a high-level collaborator with a talent for building positive working relationships. They must have strong presentation skills and the ability to influence positive outcomes in a variety of settings with a diversity of different stakeholders, internal and external.
In addition to the above, the person we hire will possess:
- A post-secondary Degree in Urban Planning or Engineering or related, with preference going to a candidate who holds a Master’s Degree or a P.Eng with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA).
- At least 8-10 years’ experience managing at a high-level in a municipal environment
- Significant knowledge and experience in municipal operations, systems thinking, strategic planning, organizational processes and systems, government relations, policy analysis, facilitation, and project management.
Note: Alternative combinations of education and experience which demonstrably provide the required knowledge and skills may be considered.
This person must be a cultural carrier, placing the residents we serve at the top of their personal and professional priority list, and ensuring everyone on the team follows suits.
Why should you join the Town of Edson?
We are driven by our unrelenting, unapologetic, unmitigated commitment to the residents of Edson. We want to make a difference with the provision of excellent service and first-rate public stewardship. This passion has not led us to be your run-of-the-mill public bureaucracy. On the contrary, it has given us an entrepreneurial spirit and an environment that increasingly fosters open dialogue, evidence-based decision-making, team thinking, a marathon mentality, AND a healthy risk-tolerance.
Because of this, we’re committed to creating the kind of workplace where the ideas you contribute are assessed on their merits, not your status in the bureaucratic pecking order. We want this to be the kind of place where you’re judged by the quality of your contributions, not your ability to look busier than the person sitting next to you. We want you and your team to feel free to create, to improve, to innovate and to contribute meaningfully.
Have we ‘arrived’ at this destination? Nope, but we’re getting there. We hope you can help us do so.
Now let’s talk compensation
In addition to a competitive wage package, excellent benefits, and an awesome pension plan, we have a vacation package that proves how different we really are. How does 6 weeks vacation a year sound to you?
We think vacation is something you need to perform your job more effectively. Because study after study clearly demonstrates that employee productivity increases when you increase time off; and we’re just crazy enough to follow the science. Because “everyone else is doing it” isn’t a good enough reason for us.
How do you apply?
Send us a resume and a cover letter. In that cover letter, please tell us
who you are,
what you value, and
why you want to work in an organization like ours. (Please keep it to one page)!
If we consider your application, you’ll need to be prepared for a rigorous process that includes at least two interviews, a thorough background check, a comprehensive psychometric assessment, and a challenging homework assignment.