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About the Role
Ivy is seeking a senior executive to lead its growth by overseeing the capital program and building the systems, disciplines, and vendor ecosystem for a reliable charging network. This broad operating leadership role encompasses capital delivery, construction, network operations, asset performance, vendor management, technology implementation, financial accountability, and Board-level communication, transitioning the company from project management to scalable program management.
Responsibilities
- Inform and deliver against an approved annual capital budget safely, on time and on budget.
- Establish program governance across scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, risk, change control, procurement interfaces, commissioning and handover.
- Implement the appropriate delivery model for each portfolio.
- Create transparent reporting for management and the Board on delivery risk, forecast changes, and corrective actions.
- Build future capital plans and recommend delivery capacity, sequencing, and resourcing requirements.
- Own operational performance across uptime, visit success rate, charge success rate, mean time to resolution, and site availability.
- Develop a reliability and lifecycle-management strategy.
- Establish incident, escalation, and restoration processes.
- Partner with commercial and customer teams on service standards, partner commitments, and customer-impacting issues.
- Build and manage a multi-vendor O&M model with clear regional coverage, SLAs, scorecards, escalation paths, and accountability.
- Lead the implementation and adoption of Clockwork as the work-order, workflow, and operating-insight platform.
- Integrate internal teams, service providers, OEMs, and other partners into consistent workflows.
- Use automation, analytics, and AI-enabled workflows to reduce manual coordination and improve response times.
- Manage capital and operating budgets within approved authorities and provide accurate forecasts.
- Improve cost discipline using defined measures.
- Lead, coach, and develop the construction and operations teams.
- Present operating plans, performance, risks, and recommendations to the President, Board, and Hydro One stakeholders.
- Contribute to enterprise strategy, annual planning, organizational design, and cross-functional decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, construction management or a related field; professional designation or equivalent experience is an asset.
- Senior operating leadership experience (10+ years) in infrastructure, utilities, transportation, telecommunications, distributed energy, field services or another asset-intensive environment.
- Demonstrated accountability for a significant annual capital program and operating budget.
- Track record delivering multi-site programs through internal teams, EPC partners, contractors, OEMs and field-service providers.
- Strong understanding of program controls, procurement, construction, commissioning, maintenance, asset management and operational performance.
- Experience implementing workflow, work-order, asset-management or field-service technology and driving adoption across vendors and teams.
- Excellent executive communication, financial judgement and Board-level presentation skills.
- Submit application with resume and cover letter by 11:59 PM E.D.T., November 30, 2026.
- Address cover letter to Kyle Mersky, President.
Skills
- EV charging experience (valuable but not required)
- Ability to scale an operating platform
- Root-cause analysis
- Warranty recovery
- Preventive maintenance
- Spares readiness
- Asset-performance data analysis
- Automation
- Analytics
- AI-enabled workflows
- Executive communication
- Financial judgement
- Board-level presentation
Location
- Greater Toronto Area
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior (10+ years)
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, construction management or a related field
- Professional designation or equivalent experience (asset)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive executive compensation
Benefits
- Competitive executive benefits
- RRSP matching program
About the Company
- Ivy Charging Network's mission is to enable electrified journeys in Ontario through simple, intuitive, and reliable EV charging solutions.
- Operates one of Ontario’s largest public EV charging networks and supports fleet electrification needs.
- Fast-charging network spans major urban hubs and high-speed corridors, including ONroute locations.
- Destination chargers provide additional charging options in communities across Ontario.
- Supports commercial fleets with charging solutions designed around their operational needs.
- Wholly owned by Hydro One Limited.
- Focused on making EV charging easier and more reliable for people and businesses.
- Learn more at ivycharge.com
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Equal Opportunity
- Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.