Resilient Infrastructure Manager

The Resilient Infrastructure Division is responsible for developing preliminary project studies and plans and specifications for municipal projects (sewers, aqueducts, roadways, traffic and transport, pumping stations, retention basins, green infrastructure, etc.) aimed at adapting infrastructure to climate change. It is particularly responsible for diagnosing infiltration, backflow, and water accumulation issues on the territory resulting from rainfall and spring floods, as well as for preliminary project studies and plans and specifications that enable the implementation of solutions. It ensures the analysis of the behavior of existing networks and the preliminary design of future networks to reduce the impacts of climate change, such as flooding and overflows on infrastructure, residences, and natural environments.

You will primarily be responsible for supervising studies and diagnostics of rain and river flooding issues, namely, infiltrations, backflows, and water accumulations on the territory resulting from rainfall and spring floods. He or she is also responsible for integrating all components of the projects in order to finalize their scope and to carry out the preliminary project studies and plans and specifications.

You will also oversee activities related to sectoral hydraulic studies and technical feasibility to establish solutions that allow for the adaptation of infrastructure to climate change in order to reduce the impacts of climate hazards on infrastructure, residences, and natural environments. In the context of projects, you will ensure the integration of various components and ensure their feasibility through preliminary project studies and will follow the preparation of plans and specifications.

Thus, you will need to ensure the smooth progress of projects in order to achieve the performance and quality objectives set by management while coordinating and ensuring the technical and administrative link between city services, service divisions, and service management.

You will be required to design, develop, and revise processes, methods, and procedures and to recommend measures to improve and optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of the division's activities. You will need to ensure their implementation, integration within the division, and compliance by your team members. You will assess the needs for human, material, and financial resources required for activities and participate in budget administration.

You will play a positive leadership role within the team while mobilizing your colleagues towards achieving the division's objectives.

You will need to guide, direct, and supervise team members in carrying out their respective mandates, determine the general order of priorities, define objectives, and inform them of your expectations.

• Hold a bachelor's degree in civil engineering;
• Have nine (9) years of relevant experience in the role;
• Be a member in good standing of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec;
• Ability to manage multiple files simultaneously and ensure the required follow-ups;
• Result-oriented while having a focus on customer satisfaction;
• Strong aptitude in project management, personnel management, and team mobilization.

Demonstrating proven leadership, you will be able to embody the management model advocated by the City of Laval:

Humanize: You will demonstrate a genuine interest in the well-being of others and the work atmosphere. You will share the vision by conveying it in a way that gives meaning to the work and ensures a common understanding of the direction to prioritize.

Energize: You will promote skill development, inspire others, and encourage them to engage in their work and perform. You will gather, share, and disseminate the required information to foster communication within the organization.

Inspire: You will be able to exert strategic influence and promote your ideas in alignment with those of the organization while having an informed awareness of the internal and external environment. You will be able to develop formal and informal networks to foster exchanges leading to beneficial outcomes for all parties involved.

Transform: You will know how to generate creative ideas to provoke citizen-centered transformation. You are able to perceive the urgency and importance of situations and you will need to ensure that they are communicated and managed according to organizational issues.

Navigate: Recognized for your courage to act, you will be determined to carry out the interventions you believe are necessary to create maximum value for citizens. Focused on results, you will concentrate your efforts to achieve or exceed expected outcomes and you will adopt strategies that contribute to improving the results obtained.

Choosing the City of Laval means joining the third largest city in Quebec, in an environment where your leadership and influence can truly make a difference. It also offers the opportunity to grow within a human, committed, and passionate team for public service.

For this position, we offer competitive working conditions and benefits:

• 4 weeks of annual vacation;
• 5 personal days annually;
• 16.5 holidays per year including several days off during the holiday season;
• Comprehensive group insurance package;
• Defined benefit pension plan;
• Hybrid working mode;
• Work location easily accessible with free parking;
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP);
• Priority access to a CPE daycare.