Senior Project Manager – Conventional Signaling

SYSTRA; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada is seeking a Senior Project Manager specialized in Conventional Rail Signaling for Toronto. You will lead end-to-end signaling projects, coordinating engineering, installation, testing, and handover while ensuring schedule, budget and quality objectives are met.

Ideal candidates have a strong background in railway signaling, systems engineering, and project leadership, with Ontario P.E. registration preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Railway Engineering or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of conventional rail signaling projects, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives are met.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams across engineering, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Coordinate design, procurement, construction, and integration of signaling systems with internal and external teams.
• Oversee testing and commissioning strategies, including FAT, SAT, site testing, possession planning, and entry-into-service activities.
• Act as the primary project interface, maintaining stakeholder relationships and reporting on governance.
• Lead project planning, risk management, resource allocation, and change control.
• Ensure compliance with railway standards, safety regulations, and contractual obligations.
• Support tendering, bid reviews, and project start-up activities with delivery, commercial, and technical input.
• Drive issue resolution across interfaces including civil, track, power, and rail operations.
• Lead project reviews and capture lessons learned for future signaling delivery.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Multidisciplinary coordination

Rail signaling knowledge

Risk management

Documentation & reporting

Problem solving

Site and office delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (or related)

Professional Engineer in Ontario (P.E.)

Postgraduate studies in systems/rail engineering or PM

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.

Understand better who we are by visiting www.systracanada.com.

Context

This role will be associated with the Go Expansion Program in Toronto

Missions / Main Duties

Roles and responsibilities for Senior Project Manager - Conventional Rail Signaling :

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of conventional rail signaling projects, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives are achieved.
• Manage multidisciplinary project teams across engineering, installation, testing, commissioning, and handover phases.
• Coordinate design, procurement, construction, and integration of conventional signaling systems with internal teams and external suppliers.
• Oversee testing and commissioning strategies, including FAT, SAT, site testing, possession planning, and entry-into-service activities for signaling assets.
• Act as the primary project interface, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships and providing clear project reporting and governance.
• Lead project planning, risk management, resource allocation, and change control to ensure successful project execution.
• Ensure compliance with railway standards, safety regulations, contractual obligations, and quality requirements.
• Support tendering, bid reviews, project start-up activities, and project change management by providing delivery, commercial, and technical input.
• Drive issue resolution and decision-making across project interfaces, including civil, track, power, communications, construction management, and rail operations stakeholders.
• Lead project reviews and continuous improvement initiatives, capturing lessons learned to enhance future signaling project delivery.

Profile / Skills

The successful candidate demonstrates strong technical judgment and the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary project environment. The role requires excellent organizational skills, a strong sense of accountability and the ability to manage priorities across complex engineering interfaces.

The Candidate Should Also Demonstrate

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and synthesis capabilities.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise and well-structured technical documents.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and manage technical interfaces effectively.
• Capacity to work with limited supervision and to adapt to evolving project environments.
• Strong problem-solving skills and practical approach to technical issue resolution.
• Ability to support delivery activities in office and site environments.

The role requires practical and theoretical knowledge in several of the following areas:

• Systems engineering processes and lifecycle management.
• Requirements management and traceability.
• Interface management and multidisciplinary coordination.
• Railway systems integration and operational concepts.
• Conventional signaling principles.
• Testing, commissioning and operational readiness.
• Configuration management, change control and document control.
• Safety, quality and compliance processes applicable to transport systems.
• Knowledge of applicable railway, transit and engineering standards.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Railway Engineering or a related engineering discipline is required.

Registration, or eligibility for registration, as a Professional Engineer in Ontario is strongly preferred.

Postgraduate studies in systems engineering, railway engineering, project management or a related field would be considered an asset.

EXPERIENCE

10-15 years

SALARY

CAD 170,000 - 220,000 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.

For questions about our hiring process or AI tools, please contact [e-mail].

Workplace Type

Hybrid