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chief power engineer
Posted on October 23, 2024 by Employer details University of Ottawa
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*About Facilities:* Facilities services are characterized by a dynamic and creative growing team where the winds of change are blowing, offering people like you opportunities to use your leadership and innovation skills to contribute to the achievement of their inspiring mission: to deliver best in class research infrastructure, reshape campus life and student experience, and provide a sustainable environment for students, researchers, teachers and community. uOttawa?s facilities encompass three main sites that are comprised of over 600,000 square meters of building space (over 6.4 million square feet), 42.5 hectares of grounds, 125 buildings and 4,500 beds in 11 residences. There are over 150 employees in Facilities, including Project Managers, Energy and Commissioning Specialists, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, Architects, and space Planners. The facilities capital and operating expenditures are in the range of $100M for the University?s $2.0 billion assets under management. The 20-year Capital spending plan envisions $4.0 billion of new investment highlighted by uOttawa launch of project Top Shelf, a $300 million capital investment to build a new facility for the Faculty of Health Sciences at uOttawa?s River Campus, as well as a tower at the Roger Guidon campus to house uOttawa?s new Advanced Medical Research Center (AMRC). *Position purpose:* We are actively recruiting for the position of Chief Operating Engineer, 1st Class in anticipation of the current incumbent?s retirement next year. This key leadership role offers a unique opportunity for an experienced leader to step into a critical position, managing a team of 2nd and 3rd Class operating engineers and overseeing complex operations to ensure the ongoing excellence of uOttawa?s Power Plant. The Chief Operating Engineer,1st Class, is responsible for extending and optimizing the lifespan of current assets by tactically issuing the goals and objectives required to manage the Central Power Plant, satellite plant and associated distribution system infrastructure that is critical to business continuity at the University. This seasoned professional will also act as a strategic agent-of-change; they will create structures and processes to proactively and safely measure and manage assets in order to enable continuous improvement and increase efficiencies aligned with associated resources at the University. TSSA, Ontario Regulation 219/01 states that in order to register a high-pressure steam power plant with energy producing capacity in excess of 11,770 Kilowatts, a first class licensed operating engineer must be in charge. *In this role, you will:* * Operates and maintains in a safe condition: complex chiller and boiler plants, high pressure steam lines, as well as heating and cooling systems and related campus equipment, centrifugal chillers, ice-making equipment and hot water boilers throughout campus. * Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, regulations, codes and standards for the assets under their responsibility. * Provides qualitative and quantitative recommendations and data to assist the senior director in determining changes and improvements to the various assets and how to allocate the departmental budget for operational expenditures within approved budget constraints. * Provides innovative and strategic leadership and expertise in planning, executing, monitoring and evaluating major and minor projects involving the infrastructure for which they are responsible. Participates in project commissioning and onboarding to ensure a seamless transition between construction and on-going operation. * Uses balanced key performance indicators to evaluate and manage the performance of internal and external tradespeople. Ensures that system data is accurate to allow for on-going analytics and auditing. Ensures that the methods used are entirely transparent. * Maintains a healthy and productive work environment. Recruits, trains, leads, mob- LocationOttawa, ON
- Workplace information On site
- SalaryNot available
- Terms of employment Full time
- Starts as soon as possible
- vacancies 1 vacancy
- Source indeed.com #9498529955
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