Director, Facilities and Asset Management

The Opportunity

Keyano College is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to serve as Director of Facilities & Asset Management. The Director, Facilities and Asset Management provides strategic and operational leadership for the College's facilities, infrastructure, space, and physical assets, ensuring a safe, reliable, accessible, sustainable, and cost-effective environment that supports institutional priorities. The role oversees facilities operations, maintenance, capital projects, asset management, and long-term planning, balancing current service needs with asset stewardship, regulatory compliance, financial sustainability, and risk management. As a senior leader, the Director provides strategic advice on capital priorities, infrastructure investments, and operational risks to support informed decision-making and long-term organizational success.
Note: This is an on-campus position and is not eligible for remote or hybrid work, the successful candidate must work in Fort McMurray, Alberta, and relocate to the region if not already residing locally.

About Us

Keyano College is a comprehensive post-secondary educational institution located in Fort McMurray, nested in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo on traditional Treaty 8 territory. We are a strategic community partner that meets both the training and talent upgrading needs of industry, as well as the personal enrichment and cultural needs of the Wood Buffalo community. We take pride in offering a safe work and study environment that embraces Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Our students and customers come from all walks of life and so do we. That is why we are committed to hiring great people from a variety of backgrounds because it makes our employee community stronger.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Leads the development and implementation of long-term facilities, infrastructure, asset, capital, and space plans aligned with institutional priorities, service requirements, and financial capacity.
• Provides strategic leadership for the safe, reliable, accessible, compliant, and cost-effective operation of college facilities, utilities, grounds, and related infrastructure.
• Establishes priorities for asset renewal, deferred maintenance, capital investment, and space utilization based on risk, condition, lifecycle, compliance, and institutional needs.
• Ensures accessibility, sustainability, energy performance, resilience, and long-term flexibility are integrated into facilities planning and decision-making.
• Leads multi-year capital, infrastructure renewal, modernization, and deferred-maintenance planning. Oversees projects from business-case development and funding recommendations through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, closeout, and transition to operations.
• Oversees facilities-related services, including building operations and maintenance, custodial and grounds services, utilities, parking, fleet, housing and tenancy services, waste management, security infrastructure, and contracted services, as assigned.
• Provides leadership for facilities safety, regulatory compliance, emergency preparedness, operational recovery, and business continuity, ensuring that risks, deficiencies, incidents, and service disruptions are addressed promptly and effectively.
• Provides stewardship of significant operating, maintenance, utilities, contracted-service, infrastructure-renewal, and capital resources, including budget development, forecasting, variance management, internal controls, and financial reporting.
• Establishes contract and service requirements and monitors contractor and service-provider performance, safety, compliance, insurance, cost, deliverables, service levels, and value for money.
• Leads, develops, and supports a high-performing workforce and service culture through effective people leadership, workforce planning, succession management, employee development, performance management, succession planning, and effective contractor oversight.
• Provides strategic advice and recommendations to senior leadership and the Board, while building and maintaining effective relationships with government, regulators, industry partners, consultants, contractors, and the community.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, facilities management, business administration, or a related discipline is required. A relevant master’s degree is considered an asset.
• Relevant professional credentials in facilities management, engineering, architecture, construction, skilled trades, project management, asset management, energy management, sustainability, emergency management, or business continuity are considered assets. A valid driver’s license is required.
• A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in facilities, infrastructure, construction, engineering, asset management, or a related operational environment, including significant experience leading a complex, multidisciplinary portfolio in a large organization.
An equivalent combination of relevant education, professional credentials, and progressively responsible experience may be considered.
Preferred qualifications:
• Demonstrated experience managing significant capital and operating budgets.
• Experience leading employees in a unionized environment.
• Knowledge of applicable occupational health and safety, environmental, building, fire, accessibility, and life-safety requirements.
• Experience using computerized maintenance-management, asset-information, project-management, and financial-reporting systems.
• Proven leadership and organizational skills.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate in a cross functional environment.
Please note that if your education was received internationally, upon hire we will require you to provide an international education assessment completed through WES, IQAS or one of the other IRCC approved designated organization.

Compensation and Benefits

Keyano College offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including:
• Employer paid comprehensive health and dental benefits, including a health spending account.
• Participation in the Local Authorities Pension Plan, a defined benefit pension plan, beginning on the first day of employment.
• This position qualifies for additional payment of the Northern Living Allowance of $1,040.00 per month (This allowance is reviewed annually and is subject to budget approval).
• Generous vacation entitlement and paid holidays between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Life insurance is 2.5 times your annual salary.
• Paid sick leave.
We also offer various perks and discounts to our employees:
• Employee Service and Academic Achievement recognition programs.
• Significantly discounted employee membership to the Syncrude Sports and Wellness Centre (our well-known gym and recreational facility).
• Tuition waiver for all employees and dependents to take courses at Keyano College.
• Employee Discounts at the Keyano Theatre and the Keynotes Bookstore.
• Various other perks and discounts for insurance, hotels, car rentals, stores etc.

Additional Information

At Keyano College, we are committed to fostering an equitable, caring and resilient environment where everyone feels valued and connected to our shared purpose and the college community. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals and encourage candidates who will contribute to the diversity of the College to apply.
We would like to thank all applicants for their interest. Please note, only those candidates selected to continue through the recruitment process will be contacted.