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Responsibilities

PRIMARY PURPOSE

Provides strategic expertise and recommendations for Engineering's resource management, workforce planning, and organizational capacity management functions. Establishes and continuously improves the frameworks, governance, methodologies, and systems required to align workforce capacity and capabilities with portfolio priorities, enabling informed resource investment decisions and successful delivery of Engineering's capital program.

Serves as Engineering's subject matter expert and trusted advisor for workforce planning, resource governance, capacity forecasting, and project staffing strategy, providing executive decision support on organizational readiness, delivery capacity, resource risks, and workforce investments.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES





- Provides inputs towards developing and maintains Engineering's Resource Management Strategy, ensuring workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational capacity are aligned with corporate objectives, capital investment plans, delivery commitments, and portfolio priorities. Responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining the Engineering Resource Management Framework.
- Establishing resource management policies, standards, and governance practices.
- Developing recommendations related to workforce investment, affordability, and organizational capacity strategies.
- Identifying strategic resource risks and providing recommendations regarding workforce, contractor, and organizational solutions to support portfolio objectives.
- Workforce Planning & Capacity Management
- Create and coordinates Engineering's workforce forecasting and capacity planning practices by developing integrated resource plans that align future demand with organizational capability.

Responsible for:

Workforce and capacity forecasting.

Multi-year workforce planning and modelling.

Resource, skills, and capability gap analysis.

workforce growth planning.

Organizational capacity assessments and scenario analysis.

Identifies future resource constraints and provides mitigation recommendations to support delivery commitments.





Develops and maintains governance processes to support transparent, equitable, and portfolio-optimized resource allocation decisions across Engineering. Responsible for:

Resource allocation and assignment recommendations.

Prioritization, escalation, and decision-rights frameworks.

Cross-functional resource coordination and capacity review processes.

Supports resolution of competing demands and provides recommendations regarding resource trade-offs, delivery sequencing, portfolio balancing, and organizational capacity constraints.

Resource Planning Standards & Project Resource Recipes

Develops and maintains Engineering's resource planning methodology, including project resource recipes, staffing models, role libraries, allocation standards, utilization targets, productivity assumptions, and workforce planning practices.

Develops recommended staffing structures, role mixes, and resource requirements based on project category, complexity, risk, and delivery approach.

Establishes category-based staffing models and recommended resource mixes for projects, programs, and studies based on complexity, risk, and delivery requirements.

Resource Systems, Analytics & Data Governance Responsible for:

Resource management systems, business requirements, and reporting.

Capacity forecasting, analytics, and workforce dashboards.

Resource master data, taxonomy, governance, and data quality.

PMIS, OPC, EPP, and future resource management capabilities.

Provides resource forecasting, affordability analysis, risk assessments, and decision-support information to leadership.

Organizational Capability & Performance

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📌 Senior Advisor, Portfolio Resource Management (Vancouver)
🏢 TransLink
📍 Vancouver