Tracks Engineering Director

SYSTRA Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SYSTRA Canada is seeking a senior rail track engineering leader to provide strategic oversight for the Metrolinx capital program. You will guide design, assure compliance with AREMA and Transport Canada standards, and manage interfaces with signaling, traction power, and civil disciplines.

You will lead a Track Engineering team, mentor engineers, and ensure safe, integrated railway infrastructure across large-scale transit projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive railway engineering infrastructure experience, incl. senior leadership in track design and multidisciplinary integration.
• Strong knowledge of track engineering, AREMA standards, Transport Canada requirements and systems engineering lifecycle.
• Familiarity with Ontario legislation (OHSA, PE Act) and regulatory frameworks.
• Proven ability to lead interfaces across signalling, traction power, civil and stations.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for track engineering across Metrolinx capital program.
• Lead review and validation of permanent way, track structures, alignment designs with compliance to standards.
• Ensure safe, integrated railway system with interfaces to other disciplines.
• Mentor and develop Track Engineering team and manage external consultants.
• Provide governance, risk oversight and design assurance across the program.

Skills

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

Rail engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

Technical communication

Systems engineering lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil or Mechanical Engineering

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

This role is for Go Expansion Program and associated with the Delivery Partners for Metrolinx on the program.

Missions/Main Duties

• Provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for track engineering across the Metrolinx capital program, including engineering governance, technical integration, design assurance and track discipline support. Translate high-level Systems Engineering requirements into practical track delivery requirements and provide technical leadership and problem-solving support to project delivery teams throughout design and construction.
• Lead the review and validation of permanent way, track structures, special trackwork and alignment designs, ensuring compliance with Metrolinx standards, AREMA guidelines, Transport Canada requirements and applicable regulations. Lead the management and resolution of interfaces between track and other railway disciplines, including signalling/CBTC, traction power/OCS, civil structures and stations, ensuring track infrastructure forms part of a safe and fully integrated railway system.
• Provide senior oversight of track-related technical risks, engineering variances, technical reviews and contractor and consultant submissions. Lead, mentor and develop the Track Engineering team and drive technical compliance and accountability across external engineering consultants and delivery partner.
• This is a key engineering leadership role within the newly created Systems Engineering & Integration organization at Metrolinx and has been created as part of the recent Metrolinx reorganization. The role is required to provide strategic technical oversight, engineering governance, asset lifecycle management and interface design for track infrastructure across the capital program.
• The position will ensure track infrastructure and technical modifications are safely designed, compliant with applicable standards and effectively integrated with signalling, traction power, civil, structural and other railway systems. This oversight is critical to managing technical and interface risk, supporting project delivery teams, safeguarding capital investment and ensuring new rail infrastructure can be safely and reliably integrated into operation.

Profile/Skills

• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in good standing with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) preferred.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related technical discipline, with a strong focus on rail infrastructure.
• 10+ years of progressive railway engineering infrastructure experience, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership capacity focused on track design, permanent way construction and multidisciplinary integration on large-scale capital transit programs.
• Strong technical knowledge of track engineering, AREMA standards, Transport Canada regulatory requirements and systems engineering lifecycle principles.
• Knowledge of relevant Ontario legislation, including the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Ontario Professional Engineers Act.
• Demonstrated senior leadership, stakeholder management and technical communication capability, with experience resolving complex multidisciplinary railway interfaces, managing technical risks and influencing project teams, contractors and engineering consultants

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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Workplace Type

On-site