ENGINEERING ASSOCIATE Full-time Job

• Posting Period: 28-Jan-2025 to 4-Feb-2025 
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The City of Toronto’s Fleet Services Division (FSD) provides a full range of Fleet Management Services for City Divisions and Agencies including the acquisition, maintenance and disposal of assets, along with City’s industry leading Sustainability Fleet Plan and energy management infrastructure. The City of Toronto has the largest municipal fleet in Canada and one of the most complex Fleets in North America.

The City has over 13,000 vehicles and equipment. Asset Management program includes the acquisition, specification identification, design review, site acceptance of new vehicles and equipment, along with disposal of assets based on lifecycle analysis. Fleet Services directly maintains and repairs over 5,300 assets. We have 11,000 operators with over 1,000 vehicles and equipment types, ranges from Class 1 to Class 8 e.g., from simple sedans and pickup trucks to hydraulic based front-end loaders, ambulances, snow melters and more complex equipment such as a hydro excavators, street sweepers, and garbage collection trucks.

 

Major Responsibilities:

• Develops and implements detailed plans and recommends policies/procedures regarding program specific requirements.
• Conducts research into assigned area ensuring that such research takes into account developments within the field, corporate policies and practices, legislation and initiatives by other levels of government.
• Ensures that the project expenditures are controlled and maintained within approved budget limitations.
• Assists and works under the direction of Senior Engineers and/or managers in planning, investigating and documenting engineering/operational challenges of basic to moderate complexity.
• Assists in the project management of the Division's projects to ensure proper and timely completion.
• Arrange and attend project meetings and develops minutes of meetings.
• Assists with developing procurement documents including specification, RFPs, RFQs and purchase requisitions for the issuing of Purchase Orders.
• Assists in projects, ensuring effective teamwork and communication, high standards of work quality and organization performance, continuous learning and maintenance of all relevant data to file for future use.
• Responsible for carrying out varied engineering assignments within a broad field of fleet asset management engineering.
• Assists with developing staff reports.
• Assists in conducting field work, site inspections, technical investigations and studies, preparing reports and making related recommendations.
• Assists in project tracking and status reporting for the Division's capital program.
• Assists in the preparation of budgets and in the cost/benefit analysis of divisional operations.
• Assists in the review of draft contract specifications and drawings for completeness and accuracy.
• Plans, investigates, analyzes, and prepare reports, utilizing statistics and performance-based evidence to make recommendations concerning vehicle design engineering problems of moderate complexity and/or assists in resolution of more complex problems
• Completes work assignments, seeks supervisory review of completed work and makes revisions as requested.
• Liaises with other internal staff within and other City of Toronto divisions, consultants and the public.
• Assists in responding to customer inquiries and providing operational assistance.
• Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of technological developments in the field of automotive engineering as it relates to municipal business focus.
• Assists in the resolution of non-compliance issues according to the Occupational Health & Safety Act

 

Key Qualifications:

Your application must describe your qualifications as they relate to:

1. Recent graduate from a University Engineering degree program in mechanical and/or automotive engineering or comparable and electrical engineering as recognized by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities.
2. Academic/working knowledge of applying engineering principles and calculations as related to vehicle design and specifications as well as associated processes and systems
3. Experience using a variety of software products such as Microsoft Office Suite, Access, and/other related data software.
4. Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, at all levels within / outside organization.
5. Knowledge of government legislation in the areas of Highway Traffic Act, Motor Vehicle Safety Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA).
6. Ability to attain working knowledge of all related City of Toronto policies, procedures and practices including: Collective Agreement, HR Policies, financial procedures, etc.
7. Ability to manage multiple assignments and conflicting priorities.

Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontarios northwestern shore. It's a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower. Toronto also has many green spaces, from the orderly oval of Queens Park to 400-acre High Park and its trails, sports facilities and zoo.