Rail Access Planner

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

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada, part of the international SYSTRA group, is a leading engineering and consulting firm specializing in transport infrastructure. We are seeking a senior rail access planner to lead strategic access planning within operational railway corridors and multidisciplinary construction projects.

You will identify access constraints, develop strategies, and support planning, booking and use of access with maximum efficiency while maintaining safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Fifteen years’ experience as a professional rail planner in the industry.
• Extensive knowledge of access issues in a railway environment.
• Understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.
• Strong awareness of safety issues in an operational railway setting.
• Experience planning complex multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic access planning guidance based on industry best practice and lessons learned.
• Identify access plan constraints and develop strategies to alleviate them.
• Support planning, booking and use of access aligned to work activity with maximum efficiency.
• Assess need for changes to access planning processes and implement improvements.
• Support deconfliction analysis and implementation.
• Improve visibility of planned and booked works.
• Participate in access negotiations and innovation to reduce cost and improve safety.
• Maximise available working windows and optimise tooling for rail access planning.
• Ensure adherence to access processes, procedures and standards.
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice.

Skills

Rail Planning

Access Planning

Staff Leadership

Railway Operations

Booking Systems

Regulatory Knowledge

Safety Awareness

Tools

Rail access booking systems

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.

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.

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