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Job Type: Fulltime

Job Description:

Overall Responsibilities and nature of work:

The General Manager is responsible for the day to day operations of Ecomark Ltd.. He or she is responsible for the general project delivery, management of technical and administrative staff, management of general marketing initiatives, and maintaining and creating company strategies in the areas of HR, IT, Marketing, Finance and Operations.

Skills & Attributes:
- Self-motivated, people-oriented, and a team player.
- Assemble and maintain and professional and administrative team.
- Desire and be capable to mentor young scientists
- Works hard on relationships
- Caring
- Comfortable with a team environment and willingness to share ideas and overlap in job tasks as needed to deliver projects on a timely bases
- Strong communication skills (both in person and written).
- Clear communications with customers and peers in meaningful dialogue.
- Customer service minded and a steady, positive attitude projecting a professional and confident image.
- Customer driven, highly sociable, establishes a rapport of trust to bring about customer loyalty.
- Understands importance of spending professional time to meet customer budgets balanced by the need for profitability of service to Ecomark.
- Provides client solutions in a timely and safe manner.
- Articulates clients needs to find appropriate business solutions.
- Attention to detail; having administrative, organizational and scheduling abilities.
- Ability to: coordinate competing demands; develop a company budget and track costs; work in a multi-task environment, handling confidential information.
- Manage the growth and development of Ecomark and the people that work there.
- Can make difficult decisions
- Executes
- Goal oriented
- Strategic
- Can read and interpret critical financial documents, financial reports,
- Be able to project revenues and create budget
- Experienced technical knowledge in an environmental discipline, with cross-disciplinary experience.
- Competent in using internet technology, understanding complex field equipment, and computer systems for data collection recording, processing, and communications.
- Uses analytical, strategic and scientific applications in making decisions.
- Proficiency in writing and oral skills.
- Commitment to excellence and a have a highly developed sense of ethics .
- High degree of ethics: Discernment when there is conflict of interest and handling confidentiality guided by law and conscience. Ensure that the right thing is done in terms of environmental integrity.
- Exceed the standard of ethics defined by their professional organization.
- Strong business sense, clear, articulated sense of how business runs
- Business development skills
- Goal oriented
- Visionary
- Clearly articulates the company goals, objectives, and strategies to all company stakeholders.
- Sees new or expanded business opportunities, implements and executes within the Corporate Strategy.
- Complies with safety regulations as posted, conducts all tasks using safe work procedures.


The Ecomark work environment attracts those who like to work on a variety of projects using their creativity and problem-solving skills in both a team and individual capacity, working to grow the company. The General Manager will be working with a number of creative professionals representing numerous environmental disciplines.

Duties:
1. Team
1) Maintain, mentor, and encourage technical and administrative staff as necessary to meet our strategic targets and clients’ needs.
2) Ensure resources are in place in terms of numbers and technical abilities.
3) Review staff directly reporting to the COO.
4) Maintain, foster and improve supply chain

2. Safety:
1) Ensure safety committee establishes rules and maintains Certificate of Recognition (COR)
2) Ensure staffs are following safety procedures.
3) Liaison with Insurers – review applications for all major insurance policies each year.

3. Strategy
1) Responds to corporate governance and management of the board.
2) Develops policy and procedures.
3) Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the company.
4) Implement the company strategy which includes defining and implementing human resources strategy by through employee annual review, hiring of key staff.
5) Develop and maintain annual budgets.
6) Assess and maintain profitability program and data in conjunction with business administrator and company president.
7) Assess new technologies and plan overall IT strategies in conjunction with business administrator and company president.

4. Marketing:
1) Ensure marketing strategic plan is executed. Manage trade marking and other strategic aspects of marketing
2) Develop annual updates and competition strategy
3) Review monthly sales reports and financial reports
4) Determine which markets to enter Co-ordinate Marketing Plan evolution with marketing assistant
5) Represent Ecomark at key receptions, events and functions

5. Projects:
1) Monitor projects to ensure both internal and external resources are sufficient to meet clients’ goals and agreed deadlines.
2) Monitor and keep overall budget.

Safety Certifications required:
Standard First Aid
Alberta Class 5 Drivers License
Other safety certificates as required

Experience Required:
At least 12 years experience and sound management of responsibility of groups of 10 or more staff.
Signing professional belonging to an acceptable professional body in an environmental field would be an asset as well as knowledge of Alberta and Canadian regulations in safety and environmental law.
Marketing, sales and project management experience...

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