Job Description

Your Opportunity:This position directly relates to the $1.8 billion redevelopment and expansion of the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and related peripheral projects and reports to the Senior Project Director, RDRHC Redevelopment PMO. This project exceeds the normal complexity and scale of a typical healthcare major capital project with 3 distinct and uniquely complex phases. It includes the development of an inpatient tower addition to the existing hospital with requisite tie-ins to existing building infrastructure including the development of a new power plant to service the site for all utilities. Simultaneously, there will be a completely independent public-private-partnership (P3) project development with separate consultants, contractors and processes to deliver an ambulatory facility. Finally, an extensive redevelopment of the existing hospital will occur after decanting existing services to the newly constructed buildings, to expand clinical support services and retrofit existing inpatient units. The Engineering Program Lead must have extensive experience in the field of hospital design, construction and commissioning. Furthermore, an in-depth understanding of the linkages between the built infrastructure and the complex array of services for patients, families and caregivers that occupy healthcare facilities is needed. The successful candidate will set standards, establish best practices and drive successful outcomes in the interest of AHS and our core business of patient care. The position provides technical oversight of entire project scope across all Engineering disciplines. Must understand the complexity of the entire built environment and interact with engineers in the consultant team to champion the design of new engineering systems with the added complexity of tying these into an operational 40-year-old hospital.Description:The Engineering Program Lead will be required to lead a team of qualified technical professionals and offer direction on complex problems with known and unknown risks for AHS. Through establishing a creative team environment, continuous improvement and the pursuit of excellence the Engineering Program Lead will form the foundation to foster the necessary solutions, concepts and processes needed to delivery overall success to AHS. The position is also responsible for making real-time, impactful and technically complex decisions in a project environment many of which will require an understanding of organization priorities and will draw on internal resourcefulness to determine the best course. The manager will be a highly effective communicator able to present complex topics to a wide range of stakeholders including AHS executive and will be required to influence outcomes through anticipating challenges. Due to significant need for additional health care services to come on stream as quickly as possible, this project is proceeding at an extremely rapid pace with overlapping demands from users, consultants and the project team which further adds to the complexity of decision making and work to be addressed. The Engineering manager will participate in project governance forums and establish strong and effective working relationships with Alberta Infrastructure and the external consulting and contracting workforce as well as with Senior Leaders at the zone and provincial level within AHS.

• Primary Care Alberta: N
• Recovery Alberta: N
• Classification: Program Lead
• Union: Exempt
• Unit and Program: New Facility Implementation
• Primary Location: Red Deer Regional Hospital
• Location Details: Eligible to work hybrid (on/off site) within Alberta
• Negotiable Location: Provincial
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 28-MAR-2025
• Date Available: 07-APR-2025
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days
• Days Off: Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary: $42.89
• Maximum Salary: $73.49
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:A Professional Engineer (registered with APEGA) with at least 10 years of building design, construction and commissioning experience in a healthcare setting.
Additional Required Qualifications:A minimum of 10 years of related experience in progressively responsible engineering roles, specifically in the construction of complex healthcare facilities with demonstrated management, strategic and mentorship skills and abilities. Must demonstrate an ability to forge necessary relationships with internal and external stakeholders including frontline healthcare workers, planners, executive leaders, contractors, design engineers and consultants. Must be able to present complex ideas, anticipate hurdles and use established expertise and credibility to build consensus and influence leadership decisions within AHS and throughout the project lifecycle. Must have a clear strategic understanding of the organization and capital management and sufficient experience in leading successful change in complex and large healthcare settings.
Preferred Qualifications:Experience in commissioning complex mechanical, electrical and controls systems including total building integration testing within a complex healthcare setting would also be an asset.

Alberta Health Services