Rail Access Planner

SYSTRA Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada, part of the global rail engineering group, seeks an experienced Rail Access Planner to lead strategic access planning and optimise rail access processes on major projects.

You will plan multidisciplinary construction works in operational corridors, lead access staff, manage access bookings, ensure safety, and drive improvements in windows, negotiations and standards.

Qualifications

• Professional rail access planner with 15+ years' experience.
• Extensive knowledge of access issues in railway environments.
• Understanding of contractual issues in access environments.
• Strong awareness of safety in operational railways.
• Knowledge of access improvement initiatives and how to drive them.
• Experience planning complex multidisciplinary construction works in operational corridors.
• Experience leading rail access staff.
• Familiarity with rail access booking systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic access planning guidance based on industry best practices.
• Identify access plan constraints and develop strategies to alleviate.
• Plan, book and utilise access aligned to work activities.
• Assess and implement changes to improve performance.
• Support deconfliction analyses and implementations.
• Improve visibility of planned and booked works.
• Support access negotiations.
• Drive access innovation to reduce costs and improve safety.
• Maximise available working windows.
• Assist with Rail access planning tool usage.
• Ensure adherence to access processes and standards.
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practices.

Skills

Rail planning

Access issues

Contractual issues

Safety awareness

Access improvements

Construction planning

Lead rail staff

Booking systems

Regulatory knowledge

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 Rail Access Planner is responsible for providing strategic guidance that leads to integrated rail access plans and optimised rail access processes - driving for maximum access efficiency and safety.

Missions/Main Duties

• Providing strategic access planning guidance and support based on industry best practice, knowledge and lessons learned.
• Identifying access plan constraints and developing strategies to alleviate.
• Support all parties to plan, book and utilise appropriate access aligned to associated work activity with maximum efficiency.
• Assessing and determining need for change to access planning processes and methods and implementing changes to deliver improved performance.
• Supporting with deconfliction analysis and implementation.
• Supporting with improving visibility of planned and booked works.
• Support with access specific negotiations.
• Support access innovation – aiming to achieve cost reduction and improving safety.
• Providing expertise to maximise the available working windows.
• Support with the use and optimisation of the Rail access planning tool.
• Assist with adherence to access process, procedure, and standards.
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice.

Profile / Skills

Technical Competencies

• Be a professional rail planner with at least fifteen years’ experience within the industry.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.
• Extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment
• Extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits.
• Have experience of planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.
• Have experience of leading rail access staff.
• Have experience of rail access booking systems.
• Be able to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.

About You

• You have experience as a professional rail access planner within the industry.
• You have extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment.
• You have good knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.
• You have extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment.
• You have extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits.
• You have experience planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.You have experience leading rail access staff.
• You have experience of rail access booking systems.
• You can understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.

Salary : CAD 100,000 - 150,000 annually

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.

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