Coordinator, Vegetation Management

Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (AQN), parent company of Liberty, is a diversified international generation, transmission, and distribution utility. AQN is committed to providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective energy and water solutions through our portfolio of utility investments to over one million customer connections, largely in the United States and Canada.

At Algonquin, our vision is to be the most trusted utility service provider in North America – a premium regulated utility, known for our customer focus, commitment to sustainability, and strong community partnerships. Our employees are at the heart of that vision. We believe that when people are empowered to learn, grow, and contribute their ideas, we can achieve remarkable results together.

We are building a culture that values integrity, inclusivity, and innovation. By joining Algonquin, you’ll be part of a team that is shaping the future of energy and water, while creating long-term value for our customers, communities, employees, and shareholders.

Purpose

Plan and coordinate vegetation management work associated with capital construction, system hardening, new service, relocation, reliability, and other construction-driven projects. Validate field conditions, constructability, access, customer impacts, work classifications, resource needs, and schedule assumptions to ensure planned work is executable, documented, cost-accurate, and aligned with Liberty standards.

Accountabilities

• Plan and coordinate vegetation management work associated with capital construction, system hardening, new service, relocation, reliability, and other construction-driven projects.

• Validate field conditions, constructability, access, customer impacts, work classifications, resource needs, and schedule assumptions.

• Coordinate with construction, operations, contractors, and vegetation management leadership to prevent duplicate planning, reduce field add-ons, and improve cost accuracy.

• Ensure planned work is executable, documented, and aligned with Liberty standards before work is released to the field.

• Improve construction readiness by identifying vegetation conflicts, access constraints, customer impacts, and work-package issues before they affect schedules or field execution.

• Support cost efficiency by reducing contractor markup exposure, change orders, invoice corrections, planning errors, and avoidable rework.

• Strengthen documentation quality, audit readiness, customer service reliability, and regulatory defensibility for construction-driven vegetation activity.

Education and Experience

• 2+ years’ experience in utility vegetation management, field auditing, quality control, contractor oversight, electric utility operations, compliance documentation, or related field operations preferred.

• ISA Certified arborist or ability to obtain within 1-year, Preferred ISA Utility Specialist,

• Experience with work management, mapping, reporting, financial, or vegetation management systems such as SAP, Fieldnote, Microsoft applications, GIS, or similar beneficial platforms. 

What We Offer

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.

As the successful candidate

Our Mission

We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization—it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.

Our Vision

We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make an impact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.

Our Guiding Principles

• Customer Centric
• Integrity
• Entrepreneurial
• Teamwork
• Owner mindset
• Outcome focused
• Continuous learning

We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.