Manager, Building Operations & Infrastructure

Overview

Are you a progressive building operations thinker and innovator? Do you enjoy delivering strategic management plans for building operations for corporate real estate and projects to optimize corporate environment and provide flexibility for effective delivery of services? Reporting to the Senior Manager, Building Operations and Maintenance, our organization is looking for a Manager Building Operations and Infrastructure to join our Real Property & Workplace Services division. In this role, you’ll provide leadership and guidance to staff, various contractors, consultants, and technical resources to ensure effective development and implementation of programs dedicated to sustainable operations in areas such as building maintenance, interior architectural systems and other services for our Richmond head office and province wide area offices.

How you’ll make a difference: You’ll help create a sustainable workplace that allows people to thrive.

Where you’ll work

In this role, you’ll work primarily from our Richmond office in British Columbia with occasional travel expected to various service delivery locations (SDLs) across the province.

What you’ll do

As a Manager Building Operations and Infrastructure you will:

• Lead and manage a team of carpenters and maintenance staff, ensuring timely, efficient service.
• Oversee the execution of facility operations and the management of trade services and contractors.
• Develop and implement sustainable building management programs and standards.
• Manage the lifecycle of facilities projects, from planning to completion, while ensuring compliance with operational standards.
• Provide leadership and direction to external contractors and consultants, managing contracts and performance.
• Collaborate on tender processes and make recommendations on contract agreements.
• Manage budgets and financial resources to ensure successful project execution.
• Collaborate on Request For Proposals (RFP’s) and tender .

Is this a good fit for you?

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in-writing to different internal and external stakeholders
• Thrives in managing high-pressure situations and can resolve conflicts with ease.
• Enjoys mentoring a team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and service excellence.
• Builds positive relationship with assigned staff, service provides, suppliers, contractors, landlords and other external stakeholders.

Your experience and educational background:

• Post-secondary degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 5 (Five) years’ of recent work experience in a similar role inclusive of experience managing staff and contractors/consultants, and project management.
• Professional designation in construction management and/or facilities management such as Certified Construction Manager, Certified Facilities Manager, Facilities Management Professional, Sustainable Facilities Professional, Project Management Professional
• Red Seal Trade is preferred

An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC’s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023; however, we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our benefits

As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work – and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Learn more: Find out what we offer

Salary: $116,186-$141,166/annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply . If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.