Salary and benefits
What Can We Offer You?
• Competitive salary range ($170,000 - $220,000) and participation in our generous Performance Bonus Plan
• As a professional you may have an opportunity for share ownership at one of the most senior levels (subject to meeting eligibility criteria and approval) in an employee-owned company that is recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers (2024)
• Financial assistance with relocation if applicable
• Flexible working arrangements to meet your lifestyle
• Maternity leave top-up and parental leave top up
• Great benefits, including extended health and dental coverage, healthcare spending account, and RRSP matching, Employee and Family assistance program
Organization name
McElhanney
Duties
The Opportunity:
If you are interested in leading one of the largest business centers in the company and working for a Top 100 Best Managed Company in Canada and you believe to have the proven progressive track record of skills and experience to be an Operational Leader, then we want to hear from you!
McElhanney is seeking two proven, future-focused, and innovative leaders with strong business acumen and people leadership experience and a demonstrated ability to align multi-disciplinary operational teams with business objectives. The successful candidates will each spearhead our operations in either Vancouver and Langley or Surrey locations alongside two other seasoned Operations Leaders and 25 disciplinary leaders within the region.
You will lead a team of consulting professionals in an established and mature market, while identifying promising new opportunities to build out and develop in terms of expanded service offerings, clients and geographies. You will execute strategic objectives and meet Key Performance Indicators across McElhanney’s four cornerstones of People & Communities, Clients & Partners, Processes & Technology, and Financial. To accomplish this, you will be the leader in cultivating a positive work culture, have an unmatched drive for success, and be passionate about your role as a catalyst for excellence in the branch, in the region and in the company.
Who we are, and how we act matters to us. We know that women are under-represented in the engineering profession, and we are committed to ensuring McElhanney recognizes the contribution women can make in leadership roles.
Background:
McElhanney’s Vancouver Region Engineering (VRE) comprises of four operational business centers (i.e. branches) located in three offices with highly experienced and dedicated multi-disciplinary professionals offering over 20 technical services.
These are well-established, multi-division business centers continue to advance their growth and diversification strategy. The region’s four Operational leaders (2 existing + search for 2 more) and 25 disciplinary leaders work as a team with incentives that reward team behavior and performance while ensuring individual accountability. The four Operational leaders report to the Executive Vice President.
The new Operations Leaders will manage a staff of over 70 professionals and have more than 5 discipline leaders directly reporting to them in their respective business centers.
What You’ll Be Doing:
You should have a progressive proven track record, skills and experience to be able to do the following duties of an Operational leader:
- • Accountable for the overall achievement of shared Key Performance Indicators for the business center and region of our four cornerstones
- • Strong business acumen to translate the regional strategic plan into business objectives that aligns your team to sound operational outcomes and business results with a strong focus on people
- • Entrepreneurial and collaborative style working with the Vice President, other Operational leaders and disciplinary leaders and direct reports to develop the annual regional strategic plan
- o Financial
- o Systems and processes
- o Our clients and partners
- o Our people and communities
- • Foster a strong, cohesive, branch culture that incorporates and prioritizes our shared commitments to employee development, safety, inclusivity, respect, integrity, project delivery excellence, and client satisfaction
- • Build lasting trusted relationships with direct reports, company colleagues, partners and clients
- • Expand our markets, services, and clients through diversification
- • Attract, hire, train and retain strategic hires particularly for intermediate to senior levels
- • Creating an inclusive and diverse work environment where you have trained, mentored, coached others to grow their careers to push you, your team and others to the next level (i.e. succession)
- • Lead, support and adopt change, uncertainty and challenges in a positive fashion (i.e. technology, support systems, business processes, market, etc.)
- • Contractual acumen (terms, insurance, scope, schedule, fees, risks) to lead, review and sign proposals and contracts up to $2.5M in value in a broad multi-disciplinary context and support from others
- • Provide effective direction and input into managing and maintaining existing and new client and partner relationships
- • Identify, mitigate and trouble shoot challenges (i.e. project management, people, clients or partners)
- • Grow your career and leadership capability through development, mentoring and engaging work
- • Collaborate with colleagues across the Company the sharing in resources and information needed to position ourselves to win and delver excellent work
- • Involved in Industry and market activities that strategically add value to the company
Qualifications
Preference will be given to candidates that have:
- • 15+ years’ experience in consulting with 5+ years of leadership experience of diverse multi-disciplinary teams
- • A professional accreditation in a technical field applicable to our business
- • Strong understanding of the Vancouver / British Columbia market
How to Apply
- Application Instructions
- Please include the following in your application:
- 1. An updated resume that is relevant to the position
- 2. A cover letter that includes:
- • How does this role at McElhanney align with your personal development goals?
- • What relevant experience do you have?
- • If you don’t meet 100% of the skills and experience outlined in this job posting, tell us why you would be a great fit for McElhanney and for this role and what support you would need?
- • Preference for which office and why?
- This role is designated as a safety-sensitive position and completion of a pre-employment drug & alcohol testing is required.
- You may email your application to aditi.gaur@kornferry.com. For a confidential conversation about this role, please call Korn Ferry – Simon McDonald on 778-903-1249 or Vinna Tsang on 236-339-9133.
Additional comments
About McElhanney
Based in Western Canada for over 110 years, McElhanney offers innovative and practical engineering, geomatics, geospatial, planning, landscape architecture, and environmental services. As a 100% employee-owned and operated firm, with over 1,400 staff members in 30+ locations, we are proud to offer qualified staff with shareholding options in our company. At McElhanney, we work in teams to build strong connections with our staff, clients, and local communities. Our employees enjoy working here because of our varied projects, high levels of autonomy, opportunities for career development, excellent total compensation, and benefits package, and collaborating with a team of great professionals.
For seven consecutive years, McElhanney has been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and has achieved Platinum status. This designation recognizes the best-in-class of Canadian privately-owned and managed companies demonstrating strategy, capability, and commitment to achieve sustainable growth. We were also pleased to receive Glassdoor’s 25 Best Places to Work in Canada Award in 2022, and one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers for 2023 and 2024! These awards recognize strong leadership, company culture, and employers that shine brightest according to those who know a company best – its employees.
Our Purpose: Amaze our clients. Care for our communities. Empower our people.
Deadline for applications
05/20/2024
