District Manager
Description
This is an interview position.
GENERAL SUMMARY
Leads the district staff in communicating corporate plans and driving results through strategic planning regarding productivity, service and cost, serving as a change agent in the field operations to ensure corporate and District objectives align and advance.
Essential Functions
Directly manages all district support staff and is responsible for the hiring, development, performance management and staff productivity.
Acts as a liaison with PGH Engineering to develop operational strategies/objectives, establishes goals and roadmaps for attaining strategic metrics.
Oversees LEAN / Engineering assessments of stations within the district leading to cost reductions.
Develops and manages the department budget; ensures compliance and addresses variances and other budget concerns.
Monitors district results including productivity, service, and cost to ensure Corporate and District objectives are in alignment.
Oversees the development and planning in regards to field engineering initiatives such as network optimization and cost reduction.
Works with the Regional Training Specialist to develop or update training as needed to ensure staff training is effective.
Collaborates with the District Quality and Process Specialist to manage the DCRT process.
Leads the CSM process for the District staff.
Ensures the DQC initiatives are advancing.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Education
A Bachelor’s degree is required. A Bachelor’s degree with an analytical focus such as Engineering, Math, Science or Business (Economics, Statistics, Financial Analysis or other analytical focus) is preferred. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, a high school diploma/GED with four (4) additional years of experience in field industrial/design/project engineering (including Regional/District Field Engineering Support) or operations management (Ops Manager and above) will be considered equivalent.
Minimum Experience
Seven (7)+ years’ industrial or relevant engineering/district staff/Engineering Specialist experience or Three (3) years Senior Manager experience required. Two (2) of those years working in the Transportation or Logistics industry required.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Directly manages all district support staff and is responsible for the hiring, development, performance management and staff productivity.
- Acts as a liaison with PGH Engineering to develop operational strategies/objectives, establishes goals and roadmaps for attaining strategic metrics.
- Oversees LEAN / Engineering assessments of stations within the district leading to cost reductions.
- Develops and manages the department budget; ensures compliance and addresses variances and other budget concerns.
- Monitors district results including productivity, service, and cost to ensure Corporate and District objectives are in alignment.
- Oversees the development and planning in regards to field engineering initiatives such as network optimization and cost reduction.
- Works with the Regional Training Specialist to develop or update training as needed to ensure staff training is effective.
- Collaborates with the District Quality and Process Specialist to manage the DCRT process.
- Leads the CSM process for the District staff.
- Ensures the DQC initiatives are advancing.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Additional Details: Job Posted date: 02/18/2025; Job Unposted date: 02/25/2025
DISCLAIMER
This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job. The incumbent of this position is expected to perform all other duties as assigned, must be able to complete and achieve minimum thresholds on any mandatory testing and training, must be able to operate in a PC windows environment, have the ability to successfully complete all recurrence training and maintain annual accreditations where applicable and work varying shifts based on business needs. If the incumbent resides in the province of Quebec, you must be bilingual (French and English). In addition to the usual factors used in the selection process, all candidates for positions that require driving as a core competency require a valid driver's license (e.g. Class 5,G, or 1[AZ]) and a driving record with two or fewer violations and/or accidents in the 24 months prior to the date of application. Further, candidates will be assessed through careful consideration of:
- their current driver's abstract;
- their performance during application interviews; and
- their performance on any driver competency assessments administered
