Supervisor, Site Engineering Data

The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) is a unique and dynamic place to work, with a bold plan to make Toronto Pearson, Canada’s leading global hub airport, a global leader in airport performance, customer care and sustainability. Together with our partners, approximately 1,900 GTAA employees are working to create a next-generation airport by innovating in all we do and striving for the most uplifting, safe and efficient experience for our passengers – all while championing the prosperity of our people, the community we call home, and our aviation partners.  Join us on our journey together, as we put the joy back into travel and make Toronto Pearson the chosen place to fly and work.

What's in it for you!

As a GTAA employee, you’ll have access to amazing benefits, including retirement planning, comprehensive group health benefits, employee assistance programs (EAP), paid leave, education and training, as well as recognition and rewards programs.

What you can expect from this position:

Reporting to the Manager, Engineering Data, this role leads the Engineering Data team in maintaining accurate airport site records by overseeing data maintenance, document management, and data publishing, ensuring compliance and efficiency through strategic planning, workflow optimization, and team leadership. This includes managing data integrity, coordinating project records, developing mapping products, and maintaining LiDAR and GIS systems, while also providing training and fostering collaboration to support GTAA business units and strategic goals.

As a Supervisor, Site Engineering Data, you will:

• Support and oversee the Engineering Data team’s mandate to maintain complete and accurate records of all airport site related technical data and drawings, by implementing plans, scheduling tasks, assigning and tracking assignments, improving work processes and providing feedback.
• Delegate work assignments, lead teams, prioritize objectives, and develop schedules to maintain core services including data maintenance, document management, and data publishing, while monitoring performance and implementing corrective actions.
• Develop improved workflows, identify training needs, collaborate on strategic goals, review technical outputs, facilitate meetings, and manage contractor support to ensure efficient and effective delivery of Engineering Data's core services.
• Ensure the accuracy and currency of airport site data sets through regular reviews, updates, and integrations, including survey control, CADD standards, project records, and aerial photography, while addressing information gaps.
• Systematically review and report on data set compliance, develop and implement data maintenance workflows, and identify opportunities to improve efficiencies, ensuring expertise in GTAA CADD and GIS software and collaboration with relevant airport teams.
• Coordinate reviews of site and utility related project design, construction and record drawings submissions for compliance with GTAA drawing and data standards and provide acceptance or return to project managers for correction.
• Ensure comprehensive capture and retention of project records, including all technical records related to site and utility assets and systems.
• Use Project records, field validation, aerial photography, scan data (Lidar), and other sources, and update GTAA site and utility data records to reflect current condition.
• Develop efficient workflows and classification systems, monitor project record submissions, prepare annual reports, and support data provision requests, while collaborating with the Supervisor Facilities Engineering Data to improve management practices.
• Support GTAA business units by delivering tailored site map products, maintaining an inventory of production maps, and ensuring the web mapping platform reflects current site data.
• Develop and implement map production workflows, maintain plotting standards, liaise with clients to determine mapping requirements, and monitor service level agreements to improve mapping and data publishing efficiencies.
• Maintain the LiDAR scan repository, process and load LiDAR data, maintain and upgrade GIS and ETL automation tools, collaborate on GIS configurations and database structures, develop data extraction workflows, and automate complex workflows to improve efficiency.
• Coordinate the development, documentation and delivery of Engineering Data training content for site data maintenance procedures, document management guidelines and procedures, and data standards

This unionized position has an hourly wage of $50.01 based on a 40-hour work week. The successful candidate must be available to commence the duties of the positions once a selection decision has been made. A practical and written test may be administered as part of the competitive process. 

Candidates with relevant external experience must provide references with their applications in order to confirm this experience.

This is the role for you, if you have:

• University or College degree in Cartography, Geography or Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and/or, Technologist diploma in one of the following fields: engineering, survey, civil, cartography, geographic information systems or an acceptable combination of education, training and/or experience
• Minimum 10 years of combined experience using CADD, GIS and photogrammetry technologies, in a surveying, engineering or engineering technologist role
• 5 years’ experience in management or supervisory role
• 3 years’ experience in System Administration in a CADD and/or GIS environment
• Ability to obtain and retain Transportation Security Clearance

 Knowledge and skills you bring, that set you up for success:

• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple projects and tasks at the same time as part of a team or independently
• Knowledge of record, document and data management techniques and systems
• Expertise in formulating and applying CADD and data standards specific to buildings / facilities, utility, civil and property data
• Expertise in the principles of building/facility, utility, civil and property data maintenance
• Expertise in the use of current CADD, GIS, plotting, document management civil and utility asset management software applications
• Familiarity with BIM software and data formats
• Fluency in current Survey technologies and terminology in order to effectively interpret and utilize survey data for plan updates
• Expertise knowledge of cartographic principles of map design, standards and practices, including the employment of graphic arts methodologies
• Ability to conceptualize and plan data structures to facilitate effective location and retrieval of documents
• Knowledge of GTAA Identification & Labelling Standards
• Familiarity with data conversion, raster editing and graphic arts software
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing software, technologies and data formats associated with CAD and GIS
• Strong familiarity with computer equipment, and standard, office software applications, (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, Project, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Good aptitude for mathematics as this position frequently deals with geometry in different co-ordinate systems, must design scaled plans for all production maps and convert scaled drawings for data updates
• Knowledge of planning and development processes and stages of construction projects is required to ensure data provisions and submissions are utilized in their proper context
• Knowledge of contract management