Asset Management Team Manager
Niagara Falls, ON · Full Time · $99,330 – $124,163/yr
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Category: Engineering & Capital Projects
Position Details
- Closing Date: October 18, 2026
- Job Type: Permanent
- Department: Asset Management
- Salary: $99,330.00 - $124,163.00
- Hours per week: 35
- Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Position Summary
Responsible for the administration and management of the Asset Management Team and Program.
Responsible To: General Manager of Municipal Works
Supervises: Capital Planning Analyst (2), Asset Information Technologists (2)
Responsibilities
- Ensure the City’s asset management practices comply with applicable legislation (e.g. O.Reg. 588/17 Asset Management Planning for Municipal Infrastructure).
- Establish, maintain, and improve the City’s corporate asset management governance structures, standards, processes, roles, and responsibilities.
- Establish and monitor asset management performance measures for implementation progress, maturity improvements, and regulatory compliance.
- Participate and lead the City’s Asset Management governance structure, including chairing the Asset Management Leadership Team.
- Lead the implementation and refinement of the City’s asset management maturity roadmap prioritizing improvement initiatives and embedding practices across the organization.
- Establish corporate standards for asset condition and performance assessment programs in collaboration with asset-owning divisions.
- Lead, manage, and maintain the Municipal Works asset data inventory and coordinate its integration with the City’s GIS system for reporting and compliance.
- Manage internal staff and external contracts for asset management data collection, development, and analysis.
- Lead the annual update of the City’s State of the Infrastructure report and identify the infrastructure gap.
- Develop, monitor, and improve the City's asset management levels of service framework aligning community outcomes, performance measures, lifecycle strategies, risk, and investment needs.
- Provide asset management analysis, frameworks, and decision-support tools for long-term capital planning, prioritization, and funding strategies.
- Coordinate responses for information requests on infrastructure condition, capacity, planned works, and prioritization activities.
- Guide the Municipal Works annual capital budgeting and long-range financial planning processes, including the multi-year capital forecast and corporate prioritization framework.
- Develop and maintain the Municipal Works capital budgeting database and infrastructure planning corridor tools.
- Develop and maintain the City’s corporate asset management plans integrating asset data, levels of service, lifecycle strategies, risk, growth, climate considerations, and financial strategies.
- Collaborate with operational and Financial Planning teams to develop life cycle costing models for asset categories.
- Provide leadership and management to the Asset Management Section, fostering relationships with internal and external partners.
Position Requirements
- Minimum 4-year degree in engineering, finance, economics, business administration, or related field.
- Minimum 4 years relevant experience with demonstrated asset management concepts and practices.
- Experience managing and supervising staff, preferably in a municipal environment.
Key Competencies
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage technical experts and communicate complex information clearly to non-experts.
- Strong leadership skills to lead, develop, motivate, and support a professional team aligned with organizational values.
- Problem solving, analytical, and organizational skills managing asset management data collection and interpretation.
- Financial management skills for overseeing budgets and contributing to asset replacement funding strategies.