Director, Fleet Operations & Maintenance

Current ENMAX employees are encouraged to apply through their internal Workday access.

Posted: March 28, 2025

Closing Date: April 13, 2025

Position Type: Permanent

Union: Exempt (MP)

ENMAX Values - Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation

The Director, Fleet Operations and Maintenance, will lead a team of engineering and technical staff responsible for ensuring deliverables to customers and stakeholders meet the highest level of quality, safety, operability, maintainability and compliance.

This critical role will provide leadership and vision for the Operations, Major Maintenance, Emergency Response, Technical Compliance and Technical Training departments towards class-leading customer support, responsiveness to emergent operational needs, and ownership of the Alberta Reliability Standards program. 

We're looking for someone with a broad range of knowledge in engineering, asset management, generation assets, quality assurance, the Alberta electricity market, and applicable market rules, regulations and standards. 

Major Responsibilities:
 

• Lead and develop a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, project managers, and technical team members, fostering growth, innovation, and alignment with ENMAX values.
• Lead the development, implementation, and validation of a fleet wide Operations program as well as a fleet wide Major Maintenance and Outage Execution program, both in alignment with the ENMAX Energy Asset Management Program, including policies, standards, and procedures.
• Lead the development, implementation, and execution of the ENAMX Energy Generation Emergency Response Program in alignment with the ENMAX Business Continuity standard.
• Ensure compliance with Alberta Reliability Standards, ISO Rules and other technical and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and implement reliability-based maintenance practices, predictive maintenance analysis, and performance benchmarking to optimize fleet maintenance practices and outage execution.
• Perform assessments to ensure quality, safety, and regulatory adherence in operations, and maintenance activities.
• Oversee key integrity programs, including Integrity Management, High Energy Piping, and Electrical Quality Management.
• Establish best practices and key performance indicators for engineering and asset management.

Education Required:
 

• Engineering Degree or Power Engineering Diploma/certification or Maintenance Management Professional certification

Qualifications & Experience:
 

• Minimum of 10 - 15 years of related work experience
• Power plant operations and maintenance management experience
• Comprehensive knowledge of asset management of generating assets
• Solid knowledge of ISO 55000 asset management framework
• Exceptional understanding of generation business fundamentals
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and negotiating skills are required
• Excellent change management competencies and project management skills
• Proven experience leading quality assurance programs
• Strong commercial, technical, economic, and market analytics skills
• Working knowledge of electricity trading operations, accounting principles, risk management, operations, commercial, legal and regulatory concepts

Competencies: 
 

• Excellent relationship management skills - ability to lead and influence internal and external groups and decisions makers
• Engaging presentation style combined with superior written and verbal communication skills and can interact and connect with a variety of audiences (office and plant professional staff)
• An outstanding critical thinker - challenging the status quo asking the Why before the How and the What
• Be highly analytical and a strategic, and have the ability to translate and calibrate technical concepts and requirements into strategic business framework
• Pay attention to details without being stuck in detail
• Demonstrates ENMAX's values (Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, and Innovation)

Did we mention the ENMAX Advantage?

We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility with programming geared to employee's needs, onsite childcare centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 - 50 Ave. SE), free parking and much more. If you share our values and would like to make a difference with your career, join the team and see where the ENMAX possibilities can take you.

Location: This role will be part of our hybrid (home and office) work force with office workspace located at ENMAX Place (141 - 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB). You will work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.

Note: 
 

• If we can provide an accommodation or adjustment to make the process more accessible for you, please let us know. ENMAX welcomes all qualified applicants to apply and is committed to a safe and respectful workplace. It is our aim to have a workplace which is inclusive and values safety, diversity, personal integrity, respect for individual differences, and encourages ownership and accountability for our actions.
• Every ENMAX employee is responsible to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of themselves, of all other workers, and of the public. Each employee must become familiar with safety procedures and rules applicable to their job and are required to follow them while working at ENMAX.
• Must be legal to work in Canada and requires the successful completion of a criminal background check. Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required.

In the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. ENMAX headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations; the Tsuut'ina Nation; and the îyârhe Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney, and home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, as well as many diverse Indigenous people who have made the city their home. We are committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Nations and peoples in all communities where we operate, through respect and collaboration.

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