Manager, Park and Facilities

Ignite Your Potential at Westerner Park

Join Westerner Park, where exciting opportunities, meaningful experiences, and personal growth come together. As a community-focused organization, we take pride in creating memorable moments for our guests, clients, and community through the events we host and the experiences we deliver.

Westerner Park is seeking an experienced and strategic Manager, Park and Facilities to lead the operational performance, maintenance, appearance, and readiness of our buildings, facilities, grounds, fleet, and site equipment.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Manager provides departmental leadership and ensures Westerner Park’s property and infrastructure are safe, functional, well-maintained, and ready to support events and year-round operations. The Manager establishes operational priorities, service standards, maintenance systems, and resource plans while being accountable for the department’s people, financial resources, service delivery, and operational results.

Working closely with internal departments, external service providers, municipal partners, and senior leadership, the Manager plays a key role in resolving operational challenges, planning for facility and asset needs, and ensuring Westerner Park is prepared to deliver exceptional experiences.

The Manager, Park & Facilities is responsible for the following:

• Lead the maintenance, appearance, and operational readiness of Westerner Park’s buildings, facilities, event spaces, grounds, roads, walkways, and landscaped areas.
• Establish maintenance and readiness priorities based on event schedules, facility condition, seasonal requirements, and operational needs.
• Oversee preventative, corrective, reactive, and routine maintenance programs, including work orders, maintenance records, equipment records, and preventative maintenance schedules.
• Monitor facility and equipment conditions and ensure significant issues affecting operations or events are addressed, mitigated, or escalated appropriately.
• Review recurring repairs, deferred work, maintenance trends, and service gaps and implement practical solutions.
• Determine the appropriate use of internal staff, specialized trades, and external service providers to support reliable and cost-effective maintenance.

• Develop and manage the annual Park & Facilities operating budget within approved financial parameters.
• Identify and recommend capital requirements and manage approved capital expenditures and projects within delegated authority.
• Monitor departmental expenditures, maintenance costs, contractor and service-provider costs, and other financial commitments.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, service delivery, and value for money.
• Provide financial forecasts, performance updates, and recommendations to support organizational planning and decision-making.

• Lead the Park & Facilities team by establishing clear priorities, responsibilities, service expectations, and accountability.
• Assess staffing capacity, workload, seasonal requirements, and external service needs and make or recommend adjustments as appropriate.
• Ensure effective employee development, performance management, scheduling, and resource allocation.
• Foster a culture of preparedness, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and pride in stewardship.
• Ensure appropriate departmental coverage and escalation processes are in place to support year-round operations and event requirements.

• Work collaboratively with internal departments and external service providers to ensure facilities, grounds, and related services support operational, event, and safety requirements.
• Act as the primary operational liaison with municipal partners on infrastructure matters within the department’s scope.
• Provide operational expertise and recommendations to senior leadership and contribute to organizational planning and decision-making.
• Lead the resolution of significant or cross-functional operational issues within the…