Geothermal Job Postings
Jan 27, 2011General Manager
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Location
Mississauga, Ontario
Description
The Company
Our client is an industry leading company in the residential and commercial geoexchange (geothermal) industry. Geoexchange uses free, clean, renewable heat from the ground to sustainably heat and cool all types of buildings.
Our client is capitalizing on the rapidly growing Canadian Geoexchange market. Its Geoexchange systems enable consumers to reduce their carbon footprint, their reliance on fossil fuels, as well as their energy bills, all by using energy from the earth.
Our client is committed to a collaborative approach in providing the resources and personnel to build environmentally friendly and sustainable heating and cooling systems. Led by a strong team of professionals in Vancouver, Calgary and Mississauga, our client offers a turnkey geoexchange solution to the market (including feasibility and conceptual analysis, full engineering design, ground loop installation equipment supply, and system commissioning).
Our client has extensive experience providing geoexchange services to a wide variety of projects, including hotels, schools, commercial office space, recreational facilities such as arenas and swimming pools, institutional buildings and homes. Our client has been recognized for its high quality work with awards from the Canadian Geoexchange Coalition and the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).
This is an opportunistic time in the Canadian Geoexchange market with both federal and provincial government incentives supporting the use of Geoexchange, though the technology is economically viable without incentives. Our client is in a position that will capitalize on this growing market by building on its extensive capabilities, growing its strong reputation and penetrating the Geoexchange market nationally.
The core values of the company are: integrity, transparency, speed and agility, work life balance, being entrepreneurial value creators, respect for community and the environment, having fun, and believing in the 80/20 rule. Their culture is focused on follow through on commitments, being friendly, fair, focused, and firm, with a strong focus on empowerment.
We are searching for a strong General Manager who can help our client turn their strategies into action.
Reporting Relationships:
Reports to:
President, publicly traded parent company
Direct Reports:
Director, Operations, and Vice President, Sales, and a team of individuals who report to them
Strategic Relationships:
CEO, the CFO, and the entire team, as well as the parent company’s team
Location:
Position will be based in Mississauga, Ontario.
Primary Objectives:
This role is responsible for the leadership of the company’s operations. This role will take the lead in turning the company’s strategies into action. They are responsible for the daily operation of the company. The successful individual will play a key part of the executive team in setting the strategic direction, and be responsible for developing, implementing, and managing the corporate aspects of the annual budget in conjunction with the Chief Financial Officer.
Candidate Success Factors:
The candidate’s success will be based on achieving the following candidate success factors:
Operations Leadership
- Marshalling limited resources as set out by the President and CEO to the most productive uses with the aim of creating maximum value for the company’s stakeholders;
- Driving performance measures of the company’s performance in consideration of efficiency versus effectiveness, in the form of dashboards convenient for review of high level indicators;
- Providing leadership and supporting with respect to environmental, health, and safety initiatives;
- Managing the operational and fiscal activities of the business units to include: staffing levels, budgets, and financial goals;
- Implementing processes and procedures to improve the operating quality and efficiency of the business;
- Creating a high performance environment through engaged employees and focusing on a professional fun environment; and,
- Evaluating performance of the team.
Strategic Business Planning
- Working to define the company’s operational and strategic initiatives and to plan, manage, and carry out a course of action to achieve these objectives;
- Through effective leadership and management, implementing the organization’s business goals into operations to ensure integration and alignment, and to achieve results; and,
- Establishing and implementing both short and long range objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
Operational Leadership
- Engaging, building, motivating, mentoring, and managing the operational and sales teams to ensure they remain committed to the business objectives of the organization and know they are adding value;
- Inspiring vision for the team to achieve continuous improvement and reliability excellence in the operation of the company’s facilities; and,
- Partnering with the executive team to represent the company with external parties, including community, governmental, and service organizations.
Organizational Effectiveness
- Being a lead change agent and transformational leader by applying steadfast change management principles and working with the management team to deploy the same;
- Effectively leading the company through a dynamic growth phase in alignment with the rest of the organization; and,
- Ensuring all programs and initiatives operate consistently and ethically within the mission and values of the company.
Attractions:
- To work in an industry with tremendous growth potential and one that is good for the environment;
- To work with a dynamic and growing team of individuals who believe in the power of the team;
- To work in a growing and dynamic company which is a subsidiary of a publicly traded company;
- To play a key leadership role in the establishment of the accounting and governance functions within the organization; and,
- To work in a high-energy challenging environment with the support of experienced executives.
The Person
Given the leading role this individual will play in achieving the strategic objectives of the company, it is essential the candidate possess the following core competencies, experience, and attributes:
Education
- A university education coupled with the appropriate level of experience.
Experience
- A broad based understanding of key business drivers with a minimum of 15 years of industry experience showing progressively responsible senior leadership roles for the past ten years, ideally, as an operations leader with an OEM or an industrial capital equipment manufacturer.
- A proven track record of successfully leading an organization’s operational functions in one or more of the following areas: fabrication, field construction, plant shut downs, maintenance and/or field operations, drilling experience would definitely be an asset;
- Experience in strategic planning, formulating policy, and developing and executing new strategies and procedures;
- Previous experience building a company from the ground up and in a turnaround situation with a track record of integrating engineering, operations, financial and sales processes into a pathway for remarkable growth;
- A strong financial understanding of budgets and P&L’s;
- A proven track record of leading change management initiatives and supporting cultural shifts while maintaining efficient productivity and quality
Personal Characteristics
- This individual must be a trust and cultural builder – specifically, someone who has a passion for building a positive energetic and engaged workforce;
- Someone who embodies the values of the company. Someone who is team oriented, makes decisions quickly, believes in social responsibility, transparency, and has a strong desire to make important things happen;
- An assertive, positive, proactive communicator –someone who is organized, results-orientedand deadline driven;
- High businessacumen and the ability to multi-task and prioritize – someone who can see the company vision and be able to see what needs to be done to accomplish it;
- High emotional intelligence - someone who knows when to be collaborative and when to be prescriptive;
- Proactive, positive, assertive, confident combined with the ability to work openly; and,
- Thrives in a dynamic organization that is characterized by change and opportunity.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
BluEra
Suite 1515, 505 – 3 Street SW
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 3E6
Phone: 403.532.7959
Fax: 403.532.7974
Bryan Arthur: Extension 230
Catherine Bell: Extension 228
