Description
Lead with Impact: Shape the Future of Mobility Infrastructure!
The Specialized Infrastructure Services unit is responsible for the maintenance and operation of various city infrastructure, including bridges, auxiliary services like road right-of-way assets, paving operations, and traffic field operations such as sign creation and pavement markings.
Reporting to the Director, Mobility Infrastructure Services, the General Supervisor, Specialized Infrastructure Services oversees program supervisors, who serve as operational authorities for each mobility infrastructure program. This position involves leading teams, providing expert guidance for the operations, execution, and maintenance of mobility infrastructure throughout the city.
The General Supervisor ensures that maintenance and operation plans for programs adhere to all service levels and infrastructure requirements, in accordance with applicable legal and regulatory obligations, codes, standards, and specifications. This role also assumes responsibility for the unit's high performance, offering quality assurance oversight and team leadership.
What will you do?
- Lead a team of professionals and specialists in the execution of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and operational projects
- Translate strategic directions and plans into actionable work plans
- Engage and support staff in developing action plans to enhance communication, solve problems creatively, promote integration and support excellence
- Ensure staff are empowered, have the competencies, and are well equipped to perform their roles
- Strategically identify and allocate necessary resources, including staffing and budget, for the successful execution of projects and programs
- Ensure the prudent and effective use of financial and human resources, determine and review annual budget requirements, and proactively monitor performance and financial reporting
- Ensure strict adherence to all Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S), APEGA standards, ENVISO environmental management system, procurement guidelines, project, program management methodologies, and all other relevant City policies and procedures throughout the area
- Apply the GBA+ process to the development and review of policies, practices and frameworks
- Knowledge or training, with a degree in Engineering, Business, Science, or other related disciplines
- Experience in a leadership role within a large, complex unionized organization
- Demonstrated senior level knowledge in program/project management with experience overseeing projects related to the operation, maintenance and repair of structures, and other critical infrastructure
- Valid Alberta Class 5 driver's license (or provincial equivalent). Successful candidates must provide a current clean 5 year driver's abstract
- Combinations of education and experience will be considered
Assets:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or a related certification
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in good standing and registered as practicing with APEGA. Applicants in a different Canadian jurisdiction eligible for Inter-Provincial Mobility (IPMA) with APEGA may be considered
- Experience working with large seasonal operations and staff changeover
- Recognized certification in Roadway or Infrastructure Maintenance, Asset Management or a related certification
- Additional certification or coursework/training in financial management, public works administration, change management, or other leadership training
Skills required for success:
- Ability to lead and motivate teams while building a healthy, respectful, and inclusive workplace environment that enables staff to reach their potential while strengthening organizational capacity
- Strategically agile leader able to anticipate business opportunities and influence enterprise-wide policy planning and initiatives
- Able to build new and foster existing partnerships with community organizations, business partners, external agencies, orders of government, and internal branches
- Foster an environment that results in an efficient, effective, and innovative delivery of service
- Influence initiatives without positional authority
- Understand complex municipal subject matter and build influential relationships with external agencies and orders of government and successfully bring together partners for operational efforts and to achieve common goals
- Demonstrate service excellence, embracing diversity and promoting inclusiveness
- Alignment to our Cultural Commitments and Leadership Competencies (https://bit.ly/4brRrXm)
- Embracing a culture of equity, diversity, reconciliation and inclusion
Conditions of Employment and Work Environment:
- 1 permanent, full-time position.
- Hours of Work: 36.9 hours per week, Monday - Friday. This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement with the flexibility to work from both home and a parks operational yard
- Salary: (Annually) $120,328.53 - $150,408.62
- Hire is dependent on Criminal Information Check satisfactory to the City of Edmonton. There may be a cost associated with this requirement
The City of Edmonton values applicants with a diverse range of skills, experiences and competencies, and encourages you to apply. We strive to provide reasonable access and accommodations throughout the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact employment@edmonton.ca. Learn more about our benefits https://bit.ly/COEbenefits. Talent sourced through this process may be considered for similar opportunities within the City of Edmonton.
Recruitment Consultant: JM/SB
Edmonton rests in the heart of Treaty Six territory in Alberta and the homelands of the Métis Nation.
IND 123
Classification Title: ML3Posting Date: Oct 31, 2025
Closing Date: Nov. 16, 2025 11:59:00 PM (MST)
Number of Openings (up to): 1 - Permanent Full-time
Union: Management
Department: City Operations
Work Location(s): Central Maintenance Yard - Pavement Office, 10517 - 95 Street Edmonton T5H 2C2
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