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Lead the Stewardship of One of British Columbias Most Strategic Real Estate Portfolios Your new employer is British Columbia Railway Company (BCRC) and its wholly owned operating subsidiary, BCR Properties Ltd. Together, they form a self-supporting Crown corporation responsible for managing a portfolio of strategically significant port, industrial, and railadjacent real estate assets across the province. Operating without government funding, the organization generates approximately $30 million in annual revenue and consistently produces between $10 million and $14 million in annual profit from assets valued at nearly half a billion dollars. BCRC today is a highly streamlined organization, intentionally designed to be lean, commercially disciplined, and operationally reliable. Following extensive restructuring beginning in the 1990s, the organization retained ownership of lands and infrastructure critical to the western trade corridor while simplifying operations into a focused corporate structure. The result is a stable, longtenured organization with a strong publicinterest mandate, balanced by independence, accountability, and a clear commercial focus. Your New Employer As Director, Properties, you will be accountable for the oversight and performance of the real estate portfolio held within BCRC and its subsidiary, BCR Properties Ltd. This includes land, buildings, industrial parks, and a variety of leases across British Columbia. This is a senior leadership role with a broad scope and meaningful autonomy, combining strategic portfolio oversight with handson responsibility for execution, risk management, and financial performance. You will lead all aspects of real estate strategy, including land and building management, leasing, negotiations, environmental oversight, property taxation, land title administration, and possible future asset sales. A core part of the mandate is to maximize portfolio value and recurring lease revenues while minimizing costs and optimizing net operating contribution within BCR Properties Ltd. You will also oversee environmental audits and liability mitigation, property assessment reviews and appeals, GrantinLieu of Tax matters, and the administration of Crown grants, licences, surveys, tenure reviews, feesimple titles, and registered interests. The role includes oversight of rightofway acquisitions in support of rail operations, along with responsibility for realestaterelated legal matters, accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting. This position also sits at the centre of a critical succession period. You will be expected to provide leadership, stability, and direction to a highly tenured real estate team while guiding modernization efforts, strengthening systems such as Landat, and creating a more resilient operating model. The role requires regular engagement with tenants, site visits, mainly along the SeatoSky corridor, and balancing flexibility with a visible, relationshipdriven presence. What Sets You Apart You are a seasoned real estate leader with broad, practical experience across leasing, land management, and complex asset portfolios, ideally within infrastructurelinked, industrial, institutional, or publicsector environments. You are comfortable navigating longterm industrial leases, legacy agreements, environmental considerations, and regulatory frameworks, and you bring a methodical, detailoriented approach to managing risk and value over time. Your leadership style is steady, pragmatic, and wellsuited to managing longserving teams accustomed to informal, paperbased processes while guiding thoughtful modernization and digital transition. You are known for sound judgment rather than deal volume, and for your ability to interpret complex legal agreements, collaborate effectively with engineers and environmental specialists, and maintain financial discipline across mature portfolios. You are likely motivated by stability, autonomy, and longterm contribution rather than rapid career progression. You are comfortable rolling up your sleeves and managing all aspects of ongoing leases. A bachelors degree in business, commerce, or a related discipline is preferred, along with demonstrated experience managing budgets, financial performance, and realestate accounting in a disciplined operating environment. What You Can Expect This role offers a rare combination of senior responsibility, stability, and meaningful impact. You can expect a leadership position where your decisions directly shape the stewardship, performance, and risk profile of a strategically important provincial real estate portfolio. The organization supports flexible work arrangements outside of operational requirements and offers a competitive base salary (up to $130,000), aligned with publicsector constraints, a ninepercent employer RSP contribution, and comprehensive benefits. Most importantly, this is an opportunity to play a defining role in stabilizing and modernizing the real estate function at a pivotal moment, ensuring continuity while positioning the portfolio for longterm resilience. It is a role for someone looking to settle into a meaningful chapter of their career, where experience is valued and perspective matters. Next Steps If this opportunity aligns with your experience and professional motivations, we would welcome a confidential conversation. 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