Senior Infrastructure Operations Leader

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision plans

Group retirement savings plan

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

Stantec is seeking a Business Center Operations Leader to guide the Infrastructure Business Center for Land Services in the Ontario & Atlantic Canada Region. You will lead operations, financials, health, safety, security, and office operations for a center of 200+ professionals.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage budgets, forecast performance, and partner with regional leaders to deliver value to clients while maintaining a high-performance culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business, or a related field with a minimum of 15 years’ related work, leadership, financial management and/or consulting experience.
• Professional registration in a related field is an asset.
• Experience working within a consulting practice is an asset.
• Experience with Ontario & Atlantic Canada based clients is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Lead Operations and Drive Business Performance: Accountable for continuous improvement and effective management of operational areas within the business center.
• Review business center monthly financial statements, discretionary spending, and ensure issues and opportunities are proactively actioned by your team.
• Regularly monitor forecasting, backlog, EVA, WIP, AR, DSO, and utilization to identify issues and ensure they are addressed.
• Responsible for development and oversight of the business center budget and achieving gross margin and contribution margin targets (by volume and by percent).
• Responsible for leading financially sound project delivery within the Business Center, participating in risk reviews, undertaking independent assessments, and supporting project corrective actions where required to improve project delivery.
• Responsible for proactively identifying underperformance against established targets and developing and implementing improvement plans for underperforming operations within the business center.
• Responsible for achieving utilization targets through backlog management and collaboration with other contributing business centers to drive overall utilization company wide.
• Responsible to partner with other leaders to drive collaboration and work sharing within the Infrastructure Business Line across North America and with other Business Lines within British Columbia.

Skills

Leadership

Financial management

Strategic thinking

Team management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business/related field

Job description

Stantec is seeking a Business Center Operations Leader to guide the Infrastructure Business Center for Land Services in the Ontario & Atlantic Canada Region. You will lead operations, financials, health, safety, security, and office operations for a center of 200+ professionals.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage budgets, forecast performance, and partner with regional leaders to deliver value to clients while maintaining a high-performance culture.