Operations Manager 2025
Operations Manager 2025
You love the outdoors, but you just can’t shake that little administrative devil on your shoulder. Maybe you find yourself puzzling over why colleagues cringe at the mention of a spreadsheet when instead you feel a flutter of excitement. Organizing yourself is so easy you’re left wanting to organize everyone else in your orbit. Heck, you might even enjoy the masochistic practice of scheduling!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will include becoming a wizard (with regards to our booking and inventory management software), detecting and administering training opportunities with your comrades, leading by example and a mild obsession with detail. Perhaps most importantly, you must know how to manage friends; a most difficult challenge. Your team will become your friends (this is the nature of our company and our work) yet you must preserve fidelity to your managerial charge.
The operations manager will perform rental tech duties while simultaneously fulfilling management responsibilities. A ‘global’ perspective is necessary— foresight, anticipation and planning according to the day’s docket. We will work closely with so you’re tuned-in to the Whynot Adventure station with on-going training and semi-regular ‘check-in’ meetings to serve as an opportunity to discuss strengths, weaknesses and opportunities.
This position is available:
Mid-May through to mid-October
Ask about accommodations.
Wage will vary depending on how successfully you execute your responsibilities, but will likely be north of $19/hr.
Some things that'll give you a foot-up above others:
previous management experience
Situational awareness
ability to detect problematic work habits amongst comrades and communicate the better approach with discretion, humility, equanimity and patience.
Send a cover letter (important!) detailing what you've accomplished (in line with this job) that you're proud of and what you intend to do for us and how that'll translate to us becoming the best adventure tourism company in the world. Please include your resume, too. (info@whynotadventure.ca) Also, even if you don’t feel you’re qualified or are just nervous, send your resume and cover letter anyway (some of our finest team members almost didn’t apply…).