
Senior Manager, Permitting
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Deliver the airport owner’s permitting obligations.
- Manage the Permitting team to effectively coordinate and assure a robust permit to work process across the program.
- Develop and implement revised governance and processes required for effective permitting on a program of this size, scale, and complexity.
- Liaise with the other owner’s departments including corporate safety and security, operations, commercial, and maintenance to coordinate permitting.
- Confirm the contractors’ Permitting plans and implement the assurance regime for the program.
- Work collaboratively with the Program Leads and the other PMO Services functional leads to ensure that Permitting is integrated across the program.
- Provide Management and Executive level reporting and provide advice and subject matter expertise with respect to trends and corrective actions.
- Provide advice and guidance with respect to permitting policy and regulations that impact program delivery.
- Coaching, mentoring, and supporting the career development of staff.
- The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
- An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
- A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
- A work environment focused on health and safety.
- Typically, a minimum of 15 years of professional experience with 10 in an on-site permitting management and / or leadership role.
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in large international airport projects or equivalent infrastructure programs greater than CAD $500M.
- Able to demonstrate significant expertise in permitting including internal airport operational permits and external permits, approvals, and consents.
- Demonstrated experience in managing teams to deliver permitting requirements on complex projects and programs.
- Strong technical capability in all project phases, including design, planning, construction, operations, and maintenance preferably large program/projects.
- Demonstrable experience in managing senior stakeholder relationships and providing strategic level reporting to enable effective decision making.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills including the ability to facilitate meeting / workshops with large groups of stakeholders.
- Recognized degree and professional designation is considered an asset.
- Good working knowledge of health, safety, and security requirements and their impact upon the permit to work process.