City : Toronto/Downtown

Category : FM - Design & Engineering

Industry : Real Estate and Rental and Leasing

Employer : Toronto Community Housing Corporation

What we offer

In addition to a competitive salary and a rewarding career where you can truly make a difference, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that meets the various needs of our diverse employees, including:

•      Minimum three (3) weeks of paid annual vacation days, increasing with years of service;
•      Four (4) paid personal days;
•      Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, includes 100-per-cent employer matching;
•      Health and dental benefits, including a health spending account available upon your start date;
•      Employee and family assistance program;
•      Maternity and parental leave top up (93% of base salary);
•      Training and development programs including tuition reimbursement of $1500 per calendar year;
•      Fitness membership discount.

This job offers the opportunity to work from home as part of a hybrid work arrangement. This arrangement will allow you to work some days at a TCHC work location and the rest of the time from home. The amount of time required to work at a TCHC work location is flexible, while considering operational and service delivery requirements.

Make a difference

Reporting to the Director, Capital Planning, Design & Engineering, the Design Manager Architectural (Interiors and Accessibility) oversees design and engineering services for construction projects including retrofit, renewal and rehabilitation projects ranging in size, scale and complexity. This role also identifies opportunities to bridge the ongoing work of the Design and Engineering Unit with the longer term portfolio objectives; manages an architectural, engineering and administrative team to successfully deliver design services for a broad spectrum of construction and program services; provides the team with a high level of Building Science expertise and technical knowledge of integrated building systems; takes ownership and provides leadership to their team in all aspects of assigned projects, services and financial viability; ensures that programs and methodologies are developed to maximize efficiencies and support high quality design work and project visioning; and, supports the Director with strategic input to best leverage funding opportunities and oversees the delivery, tracking and reporting on various capital repair programs.

What you’ll do

Leadership

• Plans, implements and manages business and work plans for the designated programs to support TCHC corporate plans, direction and vision.
• Leads regular program review meetings with stakeholders, including reporting and commenting on variances, opportunities, trends and strategies.
• Oversees and ensures the efficient operations of their unit.
• Directs staff on the fundamentals of design and design process to ensure designs produced are comprehensive, achievable, coordinated, innovative and cost-effective.
• Develops a mentorship program in the designated discipline incorporating TCH’s succession plan. Identifies the individual(s) for training and development in future leadership roles.
• Provides education, training and mentoring to staff to ensure stakeholders are in program management, technical development, and legislative requirements.

Financial Accountability

• Plans and directs the development of streamlined business processes to manage budgets, schedules and mitigate risk.
• Manages financial accountability, costs controls, and project scheduling.
• Tracks and prepares reports on the Unit’s financial operations including cost analyses, data forecasting and workload management.
• Responsible for the Unit’s management, performance and budget.
• Ensures regular program budget reviews and forecasts for services, expenditures are completed in a timely fashion.
• Provides strategic input to best leverages funding opportunities in support of capital needs throughout the TCHC portfolio.

Planning and Delivery (Operations)

• Identifies opportunities to consolidate the work of the Design and Engineering Unit in order to develop broader project mandates and multi-disciplinary master plans for individual TCHC developments.
• Forecasts and manages the resource requirements in developing a flexible model including in house and market resources to manage the cyclical needs of TCH.
• Develops unit and program wide control standards, procedures, and guidelines.
• Facilitates the development and recommends corporate standards through market research and industry standards in conjunction with various stakeholders.
• Provides technical advice in support in all aspects of service delivery including procurement, and participation in capital planning and setting of budget priorities.
• Assesses and implements improvements to systems and processes to ensure smooth process flow between divisional units.

Reporting and Performance Metrics

• Participates in planning the objectives, methods and resources of short and long range operations, monitors and reports on overall performance.
• Provides leadership to the division and determines goals, objectives, staff resources and key performance indicators.
• Develops, organizes and establishes design tools and recommends benchmarks for measuring performance.
• Develops and Implements the Key Performance Indicators as required to effectively monitor and improve service delivery.
• Working closely with the Vendor Management Team to recommend performance metrics, and develop and implement tools for measurement, monitoring and reporting to safeguard the provision of a high quality of consulting services.

What you’ll need

• Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, or Architectural degree from a recognized university, or demonstrated experience of senior level design and construction project management.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in the specific architectural or engineering discipline with project management experience.
• Possesses the necessary management skills to work effectively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and to supervise management, unionized staff, craft trades, and professional staff.
• Proven ability to analyze complex data and develop practical and creative solutions.
• Knowledge and proven experience with budgeting in order to establish economically viable programs and to evaluate financial impact of new measures.
• Ontario-based knowledge and experience in a Consulting environment.
• High level of Building Science technical expertise and knowledge of integrated building systems.
• Strong knowledge of the Ontario Building Code, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Construction Lien Act for the construction industry And any other relevant legislation, affecting residential development and construction.
• Analytical skills in developing, evaluating design and constructability issues and recommending value engineering.
• Proficient in preparing, reading, interpreting construction designs and documents, preparing and assembling design estimates and working budgets, cash flows and pricing.
• Ability to deliver a wide variety of project scopes and manage construction schedules, cash flow and to ensure timely completion of construction work.
• Knowledge of sustainable building design and implementation

What’s next

Once you apply, we’ll review your resume and contact you if we believe your skills and experience will make you successful in the role. If you are selected to move forward, the process will include one or more interviews and/or assessments and reference checks.

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