Superintendent, Transit Fleet Maintenance

at  City of Edmonton

Job Number: 51380
The Fleet and Facility Services branch ensures City vehicles, transit buses and essential City operations equipment are well maintained, safe, and reliable for use on a daily basis. The branch also proactively maintains City-owned facilities and provides custodial services for buildings such as recreation centres, police stations, libraries, City-owned office towers and transit shelters. This includes maintenance services at facilities such as park spray decks, splash pads, and river valley footbridges.
Reporting to the Director, Transit Fleet Maintenance, the Superintendent is a member of the Transit Fleet Maintenance Leadership Team with direct supervision of 7 Facility Supervisors in 6 locations. The role is required to provide leadership and oversight for a multimillion dollar operating budget, to a staff complement of approximately 400 unionized employees ensuring that the bus fleet is safe, reliable, clean and available to meet the daily requirements for more than 700 buses by Edmonton Transit Service. The Superintendent is accountable in fostering a safe and collaborative workplace.
Working closely with the Director, the position will play an integral role by assuring the relevant operational linkages exist to support Branch goals and objectives. In this senior leadership role to the supervisor group, the Superintendent will disseminate and filter critical information back to the Director for discussion and direction, and manage the day to day activities at a macro level.

SKILLS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS:

• Strategic thinker to address large, complex issues, to manage projects while steering dynamically
• Ability to cultivate strong relationships across diverse teams and stakeholders, fostering collaboration, trust, and mutual respect
• Agile leader that is able to anticipate business opportunities and influence enterprise-wide policy planning and initiatives
• Actively demonstrate the values and behaviours supportive of equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
• Ability to collaborate and build trust, obtain input, understanding, and participation from the team
• Ability to create a work culture capable of developing and maintaining a high performing team
• Strong political acumen, strategic planning, issue resolution and decision-making skills
• Demonstrate alignment with the Cultural Commitments of Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated and Excellent, fostering an environment for others to do the same. For more information on the City’s Cultural Commitments, please visit edmonton.ca/ourculture
• Demonstrate the foundational competencies, key behaviours and attributes of the City’s six leadership competencies: Courage, Inclusivity, Values-Based Influencer, Collaborative Networker, Systems Thinker and Creative Innovator. For more information on the City’s leadership competencies, please visit edmonton.ca/ourculture

Qualifications:

• Knowledge, training and/or education in Business Administration, Engineering or related disciplines
• Leadership experience in a fleet environment, and experience working in a large unionized environment
• Combinations of education, training and experience will be considere

• Lead a team of 7 supervisors in the development of action plans to enhance communication, solve problems creatively, coach and develop staff, and lead change management initiatives
• Focus on the team by building a respectful workplace culture through a values-based influencer approach and working collaboratively
• Liaise with external partners, industry experts, regulatory bodies, and other municipalities to collaborate, resolve issues, and identify best practices and emerging trends and technologies related to fleet maintenance
• Develop, implement, and enforce all safety standards and guidelines across the area of responsibility
• Work closely with staff throughout the City of Edmonton to manage the applicable Key Performance Indicators
• Develop and implement new work programs, priorities and objectives at the garage level to optimize performance
• Implement contingency plans in order to act quickly for serious or unexpected service disruptions within the Transit Fleet Maintenance operation
• Assure the effectiveness of systems through comprehensive, accurate and transparent reporting and performance management
• Anticipate business opportunities, influence policy, planning and initiatives, and foster a culture of accountability through performance measurement
• Build new and innovative collaborative partnerships with external agencies, orders of government, community organizations, and internal departments and branches

Qualifications:

• Knowledge, training and/or education in Business Administration, Engineering or related disciplines
• Leadership experience in a fleet environment, and experience working in a large unionized environment
• Combinations of education, training and experience will be considered