Public Utilities Managers
Job description
These individuals organize, control, and evaluate public utilities. They may also work in heating fuel distribution companies.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
Water Department Managers
- Manage water filtration and purification processes and pumping operations.
- Plan and monitor the maintenance of plant equipment.
- Draft reports on water supply and quality.
Electricity Distribution System Managers
- Manage the operations of electricity distribution systems (e.g. power plants, transmission stations, distribution networks).
- Plan and direct, as required, the distribution of electricity from a municipal utility.
Natural Gas Supply Managers
- Manage the delivery of gas to customers.
- Check stocks.
- Control the recording of deliveries and withdrawals.
Petroleum Product Distribution Managers
- Plan and direct the distribution of heating oil to regional retailers and warehouses.
Water Pollution Control Service Managers
- Manage wastewater treatment systems.
- Plan and direct equipment maintenance.
- Draft water quality reports.
Waste Management System Managers
- Manage solid and liquid waste collection and disposal systems.
- Ensure the training of drivers assigned to waste handling.
- Ensure the safe operation of the facilities.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to senior management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $48.00
- Median
- $60.81
- Maximum
- $76.92
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,500
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 22.7% Female
- 77.3% Male
Not available.
- 22.7% Female
- 77.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$115,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2251% of jobs
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NAICS 9112% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5610% of jobs
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NAICS 417% of jobs
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NAICS 235% of jobs
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Others15% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2251% of jobs
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NAICS 9112% of jobs
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NAICS 55, 5610% of jobs
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NAICS 417% of jobs
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NAICS 235% of jobs
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Others15% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- Engineering certification required for managers responsible for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy, natural gas, and heating fuel.
- A university degree or college diploma in Electrical Engineering is required for transmission line operators.
- A university degree or college diploma in Hydro-Economics required for water managers.
- Several years of supervisory experience in a public utility.
Sometimes required
- Knowledge of the existing computerized system.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Social perception
- Human resource management
- Persuasion
- Coordination
- Written expression
- Active learning
- Negotiation
- Solving complex problems
- Judgment and decision-making
- Time management
- Mathematics
- System analysis
- Teaching
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Written expression
- Information organization
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Mathematical reasoning
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Sense of initiative
- Attention to detail
- Availability
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work in transportation and maintenance
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Official name of the NOC 90011
Utilities managers
Job titles
- Gas supply manager
- Water department director
- Director of waste management
- Transmission operations director - utilities
- Public utilities manager
- Division manager - petroleum distribution
- Hydroelectric power station project manager
- Irrigation district manager
- Solid waste processing district manager
- Waterworks director
- Liquid waste facility manager
- Sewage plant manager
- Water filtration plant manager
- Cellulosic ethanol production plant manager
- Electric generating plant manager
- Transmission lines manager
- Hydro-electric power production plant director
- Water distribution manager
- Sewage treatment system director
- Pipelines operations manager
- Gas distribution manager
- Refined petroleum products distribution manager
- Fuel distribution manager
- Petroleum distribution manager
- Director of sustainability - waste management
- Director of water pollution control
- Distribution network director - utilities
- Compressor station manager
- Distribution systems director - utilities
- Sewage disposal manager
- Ethanol operations manager
- Geothermal power plant operations manager
- Electrical power transmission operations director
- Gas supply operations manager
- Sanitary sewer service manager
- Waste water treatment system director
- Solid waste processing manager
- Compost facility manager
- Distribution operations manager - utilities
- Solid waste processing operations planning manager
- Electric power services manager
- Landfill manager
- Nuclear waste manager
- Waterworks superintendent
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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