Maintenance Contract Supervisor (MCS)

• Purpose-driven culture: Be part of a dynamic leadership team dedicated to serving 15 million Ontarians. Your leadership will drive long-term impact and contribute to public service excellence.
  
• Empowering work environment: Thrive in an inclusive and diverse workplace that reflects the population we serve. Enjoy a culture of holistic well-being, flexibility, and safety, with tailored work arrangements to suit your life stage. Our modern, friendly, and accessible workplaces support you in bringing your authentic self to work and exploring your full potential.
  
• Expansive leadership opportunities: Benefit from endless growth opportunities, mentorship, and the chance to lead across various sectors. In the Ontario Public Service, your leadership journey can span multiple ministries and functions.
  
• Recognition and Rewards: Your efforts will be recognized both formally and informally, ensuring you feel valued and supported. We offer competitive salaries with performance-based pay, a defined-benefit pension plan, and comprehensive benefits that support your holistic wellness. Enjoy a range of vacation and leave options, along with access to employee and family assistance programs and inclusive counselling services.

About the job

• Manage a team responsible for administering all aspects of the ministry's year-round, multi-year area maintenance contract, including planning, procuring, and delivering ancillary preservation maintenance contracts and minor capital work, including proposed expansion of the Central Region network.
  
• Oversee contractor-led maintenance activities throughout the year, including summer and winter operations, traffic signal, highway lighting and sign maintenance, road patrol, bridge inspection & maintenance, vegetation control, line painting, and repair of guiderails and crash attenuation systems.
  
• Lead the ministry's response to program-related emergencies and both planned (e.g., winter operations, FIFA 2026) and unplanned events (e.g., major accidents, hazardous spills, severe weather), ensuring timely and coordinated action.
  
• Represent the ministry on local and municipal emergency management response teams, working closely with the OPP and other emergency service providers to support public safety and infrastructure resilience.

What you bring to the team

Strategic Leadership:

• Inclusive Leadership: You are committed to building organizational capacity through inclusive, positive, and values-based leadership in areas such as succession planning, talent management, and organizational design.
  
• Strategic Planning: You understand corporate strategic directions and multi-year business and results-based planning processes.
  
• Team Management: You have experience leading technical teams and delivering results in complex operational environments.
  
• Project Coordination: You are skilled in structuring, organizing, and managing multiple projects with a proven track record of successful completion.
  
• Resource Management: You have demonstrated ability to manage financial budgets and human resources, including addressing labour relations matters.

Project Management Skills:

• Program Delivery: You apply project management principles and methodologies to effectively deliver program plans, initiatives, and goals.
  
• Policy Development: You understand standards, policy development processes, and the ministry's decision-making framework.
  
• Regulatory Knowledge: You interpret and apply relevant regulations, policies, and directives to ensure compliance.
  
• Contract Oversight: You are familiar with program-related regulatory requirements and service provider contractual relationships.
  
• Financial Administration: You manage fiscal and material resources and provide input on capital improvement strategies.

Investigative and Negotiation Skills:

• Stakeholder Relations: You build strong working relationships with contractors, Indigenous partners, municipalities, and other stakeholders.
  
• Dispute Resolution: You negotiate resolutions to claims and disputes related to contracts, highway maintenance, and construction.
  
• Complaint Management: You investigate and resolve public complaints regarding property issues and contractor performance with tact and diplomacy.

Communication and Relationship Management Skills:

• Clear Communication: You convey information with clarity and enthusiasm to foster shared understanding and commitment.
  
• Analytical Thinking: You apply strong analytical, problem-solving, and planning skills to assess priorities and coordinate effectively.
  
• Collaborative Engagement: You build and sustain effective relationships with internal and external partners to gather input, build consensus, and deliver on priorities.
  
• Team Contribution: You work collaboratively as part of regional and provincial teams, contributing to enterprise-wide initiatives.
  
• Written Communication: You prepare clear and concise responses, briefing notes, reports, and recommendations on contracting and policy issues.
  
• Advisory Support: You provide expert advice to colleagues and senior management and contribute to the development of new or revised policies and procedures.

Don't meet every qualification?

How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

Additional information:

• 1 English Permanent, 5770 Timberlea Blvd, Mississauga, Central Region

Note:

• C-MT-233558/25

How to apply:

Language requirements and assessment:
All external Ontario Public Service (OPS) job ads are posted in English and French. Check the "position(s) language" section at the top of each job ad for the language requirements. For all roles, candidates are assessed in English, the business language of the OPS. If the position is bilingual (English/French), you'll also need to pass a French-language proficiency test.

Exigences en matière de langue et évaluation:
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario (FPO) sont affichées en français et en anglais. Consultez la section « Langue du ou des postes » en haut de chaque offre d'emploi pour connaître les exigences linguistiques. Pour tous les postes, les candidats sont évalués en anglais, la langue d'affaires de la FPO. Si le poste est bilingue (anglais/français), vous devrez également passer un test de compétences linguistiques en français.

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