Team Lead

Alberta Health Services; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 53,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Health Shared Services is seeking a Team Lead for Furnishings & Equipment projects, supervising Healthcare Equipment Specialists and F&E Coordinators. You will manage multiple capital projects across Alberta, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery while aligning with infection prevention and clinical best practices.

The role requires extensive travel, leadership experience in healthcare or complex projects, and strong financial oversight capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, or other management related field and applicable healthcare experience is required.
• On-the-job experience as a Project Manager, Charge Nurse / Head Nurse, or similar leadership role is required.
• A proven track record with 10 or more years of experience supervising multiple staff in a healthcare or complex project management team environment is required.
• This position is required to travel to healthcare projects throughout the province.
• Safety training is required to access construction sites, as well as approved PPE.
• Possession of a valid driver’s license & access to a motor vehicle in good repair for work-related travel is required.
• Some working knowledge and understanding of health facility construction is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day leadership and supervision, directing workload to ensure healthcare projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Oversee financial management including development, oversight, approvals, and reporting of project budgets and financials.
• Coordinate with AI, AI-related ministries, and foundations to advance F&E services across the province.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Staff supervision

Travel willingness

Driver's license

Safety training

Health facility construction knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

Bachelor's degree in Health Administration

Management-related degree

Job description

Your Opportunity

Reporting to Manager, Furnishings & Equipment, Capital Projects the Team Lead manages a large portfolio of F&E projects and a team of Healthcare Equipment Specialists, Healthcare Furnishings Specialists and F&E Project Coordinators. The Team Lead has financial accountability and direct functional supervision responsibility for the Project Teams who are accountable to ensure multiple, concurrent Alberta Infrastructure led Major Capital Projects or AHS Project Management led Minor Capital Projects and Provincial Initiatives are successfully implemented. This positively impacts the strategic health infrastructure and operational outcomes of new, expanded or renovated AHS facilities or clinical services. The Team Lead delivers solutions to multiple complex challenges and plays a key role in communication to advance F&E services across the Province and to facilitate strategic alliances with Alberta Infrastructure, Alberta Health, AHS Facilities and other Capital Management service areas. This is a supervisory, people mgmt & risk mgmt role.

Description

The Team Lead provides day to day leadership and supervision, providing direction to their team, assigning workload to ensure healthcare projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with an eye to evolving healthcare technology, infection prevention and control standards, clinical best practices, dept. standard procedures & end user work flow. The Team Lead is accountable for financial mgmt including the development, maintenance, procurement oversight and approvals, and reporting on project budgets and financials to F&E Management, Directors, Senior Project Managers and Project Managers both within HSS, Alberta Infrastructure (AI), 4 health ministries, PHA/PHC’s, and Philanthropic Foundations throughout the project life cycle. On average, each Team Lead is typically accountable for more than one-hundred million dollars in Capital Project budget, at any given time.

Key Information

Transition Company: Health Shared Services Classification: Lead Union: Exempt Unit and Program: Furnishings & Equipment Primary Location: Seventh Street Plaza Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 17-AUG-2026 Date Available: 27-AUG-2026 Temporary End Date: 27-AUG-2027 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 2 Shifts per cycle: 10 Shift Pattern: Days Days Off: Saturday/Sunday Minimum Salary: $38.73 Maximum Salary: $66.42 Vehicle Requirement: Driver's License, Vehicle Required

Required Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Health Administration, Business Administration, or other management related field and applicable healthcare experience is required.
• On-the-job experience as a Project Manager, Charge Nurse / Head Nurse, or similar leadership role is required.
• A proven track record with 10 or more years of experience supervising multiple staff in a healthcare or complex project management team environment is required.
• This position is required to travel to healthcare projects throughout the province.
• Safety training is required to access construction sites, as well as approved personal protective equipment (PPE).
• Possession of a valid driver’s license & access to a motor vehicle in good repair for work-related travel is required.
• Some working knowledge and understanding of health facility construction is required.

Additional Required Qualifications

• Preference will be given to applicants with work experience in pediatrics.
• A project management background is highly desirable.
• The successful candidate must: Perform effectively in a high pressure, project-based work environment with frequent workload changes and competing demands / deadlines.
• Assign and Monitor work according to set procedures.
• Perform with frequent interruptions and/or distractions.
• Adapt to frequent changes in workload, adjust priorities quickly and direct people.
• Set priorities and prioritize assignments which accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities and project deliverables to complete heavy workload within established time frames.
• Ensure staff follow through on assignments, maintain quality assurance, mitigate and resolve conflicts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applicants who demonstrate ability to ensure team aligns to SOPs, MS Excel pivot table skills, ability to motivate a team w/out compromising Mgmt direction, comfortable working in high pressure, dynamic environment, strong critical thinking skills, welcome social interaction w/ colleagues, travel throughout the province incl. overnight for project deliverables, teambuilding, staff meetings and other day to day activities is req'd including winter driving condition in rental cars.