Delivery Director

SYSTRA Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada Inc. is seeking a Delivery Director to provide senior leadership across a portfolio of stations projects. The role will coordinate readiness, governance, safety assurance and strategic delivery activities for the SCT-Stations team.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, engage with public sector partners, and drive readiness, handover and transition across complex capital programmes. This is an on-site leadership role within Canada’s transport infrastructure sector.

Qualifications

• Degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management or Project Management.
• Minimum 15 years' experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, rail, transit or complex capital programmes.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams across large and complex project portfolios.
• Significant experience in project governance, risk management, programme controls and stakeholder management.
• Experience managing readiness, assurance, commissioning, handover or operational transition activities.
• Experience supporting commercial negotiations, contract administration and issue resolution.
• Strong understanding of public sector governance and major capital project delivery environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead MTC readiness planning and implementation across the Stations Portfolio.
• Ensure governance, reporting and decision-making processes align with IDPC requirements.
• Provide oversight of safety assurance tracking, action management and close-out activities across the portfolio.
• Support commercial negotiations, issue resolution and contract-related matters.
• Work with project teams, functional leads and stakeholders to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• Support portfolio performance management, reporting and delivery assurance activities.
• Engage with Metrolinx, delivery partners, contractors and other stakeholders to support successful project outcomes.
• Provide strategic leadership and support across the portfolio during readiness, handover and transition phases.

Education

Engineering/Construction/Project Management degree or diploma

Job description

SYSTRA Canada is part of the SYSTRA group, an international consulting and engineering group, a world leader in the design of transport infrastructures. SYSTRA Canada is an engineering and consulting firm whose primary focus is to offer transportation solutions, whether for passengers or goods: feasibility studies of building a new railway line, increasing the capacity of the existing infrastructure, privatization of a railway.

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Context

The Delivery Director will provide senior leadership across a portfolio of stations projects for the SCT-Stations team. The role will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing project readiness, governance, safety assurance and strategic delivery activities across the portfolio.

Missions/Main Duties

• Leading MTC readiness planning and implementation activities across the Stations Portfolio.
• Ensuring governance, reporting and decision-making processes are aligned with IDPC requirements.
• Providing oversight of safety assurance tracking, action management and close-out activities across the portfolio.
• Supporting commercial negotiations, commercial issue resolution and contract-related matters as required.
• Working with project teams, functional leads and stakeholders to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• Supporting portfolio performance management, reporting and delivery assurance activities.
• Engaging with Metrolinx, delivery partners, contractors and other stakeholders to support successful project outcomes.
• Providing strategic leadership and support across the portfolio during readiness, handover and transition phases.

Profile/Skills

• Degree or diploma in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years' experience delivering major infrastructure, transportation, rail, transit or complex capital programmes.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams across large and complex project portfolios.
• Significant experience in project governance, risk management, programme controls and stakeholder management.
• Experience managing readiness, assurance, commissioning, handover or operational transition activities.
• Experience supporting commercial negotiations, contract administration and issue resolution.
• Strong understanding of public sector governance and major capital project delivery environments.
• Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder management skills.

SYSTRA Canada is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that values applications from all and offers employment equity based on the merits and abilities of candidates and personnel.

Note: In this description, the masculine gender is used for easy reading purposes and includes the feminine.

We use AI-enabled tools in our recruitment platform (iCIMS) for tasks like resume parsing and candidate matching. These tools do not make hiring decisions; all applications are reviewed by a human recruiter, and final decisions are made by our hiring team. For questions about our hiring process or AI tools, please contact [email protected].

Workplace Type

On-site