Manager 1, Fleet Services - Nanaimo, Canada - BC Hydro

BC Hydro

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Nanaimo, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that's where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Duties:

BC Hydro is looking for a dynamic, innovative, resultsoriented maintenance manager to join its
Fleet Services team and help lead the transformation of the fleet maintenance function to ensure it

- meets the company's evolving business needs.
- meet the electricity needs of its customers by delivering on the capital plan while safely and cost
- effectively operating a growing system. Fleet Services is responsible for over 4,400 fleet vehicles
- across the province.

The position will report to the Senior Manager of Maintenance and Operations and lead a

- unionized workforce of people who perform day to day operations of BC Hydro's Fleet. The
- position requires dedication to customer satisfaction with a focus on excellent customer service to
- our internal clients, demonstrated strong leadership abilities, excellent communication skills, as
- well as very good organizational, problem solving and interpersonal skills.

This is an operations role, and calls for someone with a strong safety record and demonstrated

- proactive approach to safety, and a penchant for successfully leading continuous improvement
- and delivering great results in vehicle maintenance programs.- bucket trucks, stiff boom crane trucks, digger derrick trucks, and articulating boom trucks), plus
- experience with shop-floor work management best practices.

Drive a safety culture by ensuring the use of safe work practices that comply with BC Hydro

policies and Provincial & Federal regulations- Recognize safe work performance and intervene when necessary to prevent safety incidents;

Lead a team of highlyskilled vehicle mechanics to safely perform maintenance, repairs and

other tasks/projects within annual work plans;

Review and continuously provide input to improve maintenance programs, to ensure optimal

total lifecycle maintenance investment;

Continuously improve work practices, with a focus on safety, efficiency and quality of work

performed;

Develop and sustain relationships, specifically with BC Hydro's operating groups, to understand

their business priorities and needs so Fleet Services can successfully operate to meet these
needs in a flexible and efficient way;

Be part of project teams to implement a multiyear, strategic change program for Fleet Services,

focusing on operational excellence to meet the future needs of clients, many of whom are
currently transforming their business processes;

Contribute to the development of a high performing team, across Fleet Services including staff

development;

Drive innovation to improve and update fleetrelated processes focused on quality, cost and

cycle time while aligning with BC Hydro strategies; and

Utilize strong management principles and good planning to develop and implement annual

safety, strategic and business plans and budgets, and ensure key priorities are determined,
communicated, reinforced and systematically met by the team.

Qualifications:

***- A Trade Certification in an Automotive trade or Commercial or Heavy-Duty Mechanics with

proven and relevant experience/skills in fleet vehicle maintenance; additional training and/or
- experience in Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) would be considered an asset.

Minimum of 13 years of experience in fleet operations or equivalent experience (within a

medium to large size multi-disciplinary organization)- Must have a strong safety record and demonstrate proactive approach to safety.

Excellent communication skills
Experience in leading a unionized workforce
Experience in both building and leading a highperforming team.
Project management experience would be an asset with the ability to adapt to evolving business

needs.- Completion of the Trades to Management Program (T2M) would be considered an asset.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

A Driver's License Type = Minimum Class 5, in good standing, is required and Class 3 or better

is preferred

A written evaluation will form part of the evaluation process.
Please be advised that this role has been assessed as safety sensitive and prequalification

alcohol and drug testing will be required as a pre-c