Chief, Facilities Maintenance

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Assessment accommodation

When you apply to this selection process, you are not applying for a specific job, but to an inventory for future vacancies. As positions become available, applicants who meet the qualifications may be contacted for further assessment.

Duties

The Chief, Facilities Management, works through their facility maintenance supervisors to manage and direct financial resources, contractors, and maintenance personnel as necessary to maintain a Cluster of several Correctional Service of Canada Institutions in accordance with CSC maintenance service delivery standards and applicable legislated and regulatory requirements.

Work environment

The Technical Services, Prairie Region, of Correctional Service Canada is a stimulating and dynamic environment whose mission is to ensure the operation, compliance and sustainability of a real estate portfolio of more than $ 8 billion dollars in an operational environment . We are responsible for institutions and penitentiary clusters as well as parole offices and community correctional centers located throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The facilities we manage are diverse such as buildings and structures, building mechanics systems, electrical distribution networks, infrastructures, generators, oil tanks, thermal power stations, water treatment and purification plants, roads, fences and barriers, and automobile fleets to name only those.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

A secondary school diploma or a satisfactory score on the Public Service Commission test or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience.

Degree equivalency

Experience* managing the delivery of infrastructure or equipment maintenance and construction programs or services to a large facility**.
Experience* managing staff and contractors
Experience* managing financial resources
Experience* providing advice and recommendations to management on infrastructure or equipment maintenance and construction programs or services.

*Minimum of 2 years experience in the past 5 years.
** Large facility is defined as a building and grounds which are similar in size to a correctional institution, hospital, airport, shopping mall, or college campus.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge of project management in the Government of Canada (https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/information-technology-project-management/project-management.html).

Knowledge of applicable regulations related to the delivery of facilities maintenance and capital construction projects and services.

Knowledge of workplace health and safety practices.

Ability to plan and manage the delivery of infrastructure and maintenance services to a facility*.
Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
Ability to communicate effectively orally.

* Facility is defined as a building and grounds which are similar in size to a correctional institution, hospital, airport, shopping mall, or college campus.

Values and ethics - Serving through integrity and respect.
Strategic thinking - Innovating through analysis and ideas.
Engagement - Mobilizing people, organizations, partners.
Management excellence - Delivering through action management, people management, financial management.

Definitions (Supervisor): https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/professional-development/key-leadership-competency-profile/effective-behaviours.html?=undefined&wbdisable=false#manager

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Graduation with a degree or diploma in mechanical, electrical or civil engineering.

Completion of a Post Secondary College Certificate or Diploma program, or apprenticeship accreditation program, resulting in certification in at least one of the following:
• Journeyman Trade Certification in a Building or Mechanic Trade, or
• Building Systems Technician, or
• Facilities Technician, or
• Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Technician, or
• Civil, mechanical, or electronic Technologist, or
• Stationary or Power Engineer or
• Professional management certification in a program relevant to facilities management such as: BOMA Maintenance Management Professional, or Asset Management Professional, or acceptable equivalent or
• Engineering degree in a discipline relevant to facility maintenance

OR an acceptable equivalent combination of training and experience

Degree equivalency

Experience working in a correctional environment.

Experience managing projects in either a facilities infrastructure, equipment maintenance or construction environment.

CSC is committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve. In support of our strategy to achieve our employment equity goals, selection may be limited to candidates self-identifying as belonging to one of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal Persons, Visible Minorities, Women and Persons with Disabilities.

Willingness and ability to travel to various locations.
Willingness to work overtime.
Willingness to travel.
Willingness to complete site visits in correctional institutions.
Willingness to perform duties at any of the locations within the cluster for which this position serves.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Possession of a valid driver’s license

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

The information you will be providing in this application must be true and may be verified.

1. Correctional Service of Canada is committed to establishing and maintaining a representative workforce. Consideration may be given to qualified candidates who self-declare as members of one of the following employment equity groups: Aboriginal peoples, persons with a disability, visible minorities and women.
2. Various methods of assessment may be used (i.e.: written examination, interview, reference check, etc.). Candidate application and resume may be utilized to assess ability to communicate effectively in writing.
3. Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. You are asked to indicate your preferred official language in your application.
4. Depending on the number of candidates, various volume management strategies may be used for the purpose of managing applications/candidates, assessment invitation, pool creation and/or selection decisions such as, but not limited to, invoking one or more of the asset experience, applying a top down selection, cut-off scores.

COMMUNICATION
5. For this selection process, we will communicate with you by email. You must provide a valid email address to which you wish to receive communication regarding this selection process. You must ensure to check/view your email accounts including spam, promotion or other folders regularly as there may be a deadline for responses. Candidates who respond past the deadline risk being removed from the selection process.

HOW CAN YOU APPLY?
6. To submit an application on-line, please select the button "Apply Online" below.

Please clearly identify in your application, the locations listed in this advertisement where you are willing to work.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.