Regional Director, Facility Management – Toronto

Equans is looking for a Regional Director for Toronto and the Greater Toronto area!

The Equans group is a world leader in the energy and services industry. The Group operates in 20 countries, with 90,000 employees working on 5 continents. Equans is a Bouygues group company.

Equans designs, installs, and delivers customized solutions to improve its customers’ equipment, systems and technical processes and optimize their use in the context of their energy, industrial and digital transitions. Equans is a Bouygues group company.

Active in Canada and the United States for more than 30 years, Equans Services is the partner of businesses, industries and institutions that want to move towards more connected buildings, manage their facilities efficiently and reduce their carbon footprint.

We design, implement, and maintain custom solutions to improve our customers’ facilities, systems, and infrastructures.

Our core offerings are focused on the following areas:

• Integrated Asset and facilities management;
• Operation and maintenance of buildings and equipment (including district heating and cooling);
• Energy efficiency solutions and execution of decarbonization roadmaps;
• Building automation and systems;
• Solutions for transportation and mobility.

To learn more, visit www.equansservices.com/en

Summary

The Regional Director, reporting to VP FM Operations, is responsible for the activities and personnel related to the operation and maintenance of the assigned facilities under his/her management.  He/she is responsible for quality control, financial results, maintaining relations with customers, professionals and suppliers, and ensuring customer satisfaction, while taking a very health and safety-oriented approach to the workplace. He/she regularly provides the VP of Operations with a summary of important elements relating to the management of contracts under his/her responsibility. This position is also responsible for the implementation, execution and monitoring of company policies.

Responsibilities

Operations

• Directs, supervises and provides experience and technical assistance to the managers and employees under his/her responsibility in order to ensure compliance with our contractual commitments and the maintenance of our quality standards in the execution of services.
• Ensure that site managers apply a work methodology and comply with standards in terms of technical, administrative and budgetary management of contracts.  To this end, put in place the necessary procedures to standardize working methods.
• Carry out periodic quality control visits and ensure that recommendations are implemented.
• Participate in periodic meetings with customers, maintain good relations with them and resolve contentious and/or conflictual situations in day-to-day management.
• Validate the content of monthly reports.
• Coordinate activities required to meet contractual commitments with other company departments.
• Contribute to business development by generating new opportunities and adding new services.

Personnel Management

• Determine and monitor annual objectives and evaluate staff under his/her supervision according to the current process. Validate objectives, performance appraisals and salary increase carried out by site managers under his/her responsibility.
• Maintain good communication with team members and manage labour relations issues as required.
• Process personnel requests, transfers and promotions within his/her teams and conduct interviews.
• Ensure appropriate team training.

Health & Safety

• Inform and train employees about EQUANS safety rules.
• Implement equipment and procedures to ensure compliance with EQUANS rules including, among others, risk analysis before performing a task.
• Identify and implement HSE improvements including in some cases the customer.

Finance

• Ensure the preparation of operating and capital budgets for the buildings under its management.
• Closely monitor the results of each contract and forecasts for the coming months.
• Create action plans to improve contracts that do not meet budgets.

Business development and operations

• In collaboration with your superior and the business development team, manage the commercial aspects of existing contracts: prepare amendments, new contract proposals, service proposals.
• Participate in the preparation of calls for tender and the selection of subcontractors in collaboration with other departments.
• Actively collaborate in the identification of opportunities and the preparation of service offers.

Requirements 

• Authorized to work in Canada;
• Must be able to pass all background checks and the required security level; 
• University degree in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in building, energy or electricity, or any equivalent combination of training and relevant experience;
• 5-10 years of relevant leadership experience in Hard Facility Management (FM);
• Good knowledge of electromechanical equipment and Facility Management activities (Soft FM and Hard FM);
• Knowledge of MS Office (particularly Excel);
• Experience with tools such as COUPA, CONCUR, Planon;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Valid Driving License  

Skills

• Excellent communication skills;
• Organizational skills (priority management);
• Ability to work under pressure, with a heavy workload and a wide variety of files;
• Be a good coach, mobilizing and inspiring his/her team, with demonstrated skills in employee management and customer service.
• Leadership with excellent influencing and persuasion skills;
• Ability to apply occupational health and safety policies and programs. 

What Equans offers you

• Group insurance from your first day of work;
• A group pension plan;
• A bonus program;
• Balance between work and personal life;
• Professional and personal development in a company experiencing strong growth;
• A positive working environment characterized by competence, responsibility and innovation;
• Competitive terms of employment and excellent benefit schemes;
• A diverse workplace regarding gender, age and cultural background. We believe in the importance of diversity and inclusion.

Equal employment opportunity

Equans Services adheres to the principles of employment equity and values diversity and inclusion. We therefore encourage applications from all individuals, including women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and individuals of all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to providing a respectful, accessible, and equitable work environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

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