Senior Management – Construction, Production, and Public Utility
Job description
These individuals run company operations through middle management. They formulate, alone or with a board of directors, company policy guidelines and objectives. They work in establishments in the following sectors:
- Fishing
- Logging
- Mining, oil, and gas development
- Construction
- Transport
- Printing
- Manufacturing
- Public utilities
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Define the company’s mission and strategic orientations.
- Set up the organization’s main services.
- Manage material, human, and financial resources.
- Establish administrative and financial controls.
- Prepare and approve promotional campaigns.
- Select middle management.
- Approve the human resources management plan.
- Hire directors and delegate the necessary authority to them.
- Represent the organization.
Advancement and mobility
- There is mobility between senior management professions.
- Opportunity to specialize in a particular field or product by acquiring either experience or specific university or college training.
- These individuals may specialize in finance, marketing, and human resources.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
Less than 50
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
Not available.
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
Not available.
Yearly wage
All of Québec
Not available.
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
All of Québec
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Sometimes required
- University degree or college diploma in one of the following disciplines is usually required:
- Engineering
- Business Administration
- Commerce
- Other discipline related to the company’s product
- Several years of experience as a middle manager in the following areas are usually required :
- Production of goods
- Public utilities
- Transport
- Construction
- A professional accounting designation is often required (finance sector).
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Solving complex problems
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Social perception
- System analysis
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Result evaluation
- Systems evaluation
- Financial resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Information processing
- Active learning
- Written expression
- Time management
- Material resource management
- Mathematics
- Operation analysis
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Classification
- Mathematical reasoning
- Processing flexibility
- Basic numeracy
- Perception speed
- Information processing speed
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Memorization
- Time sharing
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of economics and accounting
- Capacity to delegate
- Strategic sense
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Commitment
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in transportation and maintenance
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 00015
Senior managers - construction, transportation, production and utilities
Job titles
- President - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Electric power company president
- Residential construction company president
- Transit system general manager
- Construction general manager
- Deputy chief executive officer - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Chief executive officer (ceo) - manufacturing company
- Chief operating officer - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Chief learning officer – goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Chief operating officer – airline
- Chief diversity officer – goods production, utilities, transport and construction
- Chief privacy officer - construction, transportation, production and utilities
- Project executive – construction
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Chief financial officer (cfo) - urban transit system
- Chief sustainability officer - goods production, transportation and utilities
- Corporate controller - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Logging company corporate controller
- Assistant executive director - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Executive director - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- General manager - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Trucking company general manager
- Production general manager - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Publishing house general manager
- Feed and flour mills general manager
- Highway construction general manager
- Gas distribution general manager
- Building construction general manager
- Transport and communications general manager
- Publisher
- Hydro-electric power station president
- Executive vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Executive vice-president - railway
- Regional vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Petroleum production company regional vice-president
- Vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Engineering vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Finance vice-president - mining company
- Finance vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Finance and administration vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Operations vice-president - electric power company
- Operations vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Sustainability vice-president – goods production, utilities, transport and construction
- Planning vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Compensation vice-president – goods production, utilities, transport and construction
- Corporate social responsibility vice-president – goods production, utilities, transport and construction
- Logistics vice-president – goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Plant operations vice-president
- Energy operations vice-president
- Human resources vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Human resources and organizational development vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Support services vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Information systems vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Sales vice-president - pulp and paper manufacturing
- Sales vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Marketing vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
- Marketing vice-president - airline
- Personnel vice-president - goods production, utilities, transportation and construction
Skill type
Management
Last update: January 29, 2026
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