Posted 24 days ago
Electrical Designer - Traffic Signal Design
@ SYSTRA
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
SYSTRA Canada is hiring an Electrical Designer for full-time traffic signal and lighting design on transportation projects. The role covers AutoCAD or Civil 3D drawings, wire sizing and voltage drop calculations, utility coordination, tender items and field commissioning. Pay is CAD 70,000 to 85,000 a year, with occasional evenings or weekends and a remote workplace.
Responsibilities:
- Design traffic signal and street lighting systems for municipal and provincial projects
- Prepare engineering drawings, calculations and documentation in AutoCAD or Civil 3D
- Coordinate utilities and stakeholders on electrical infrastructure projects
- Perform contract administration, tender and assumption work
- Provide field support, including commissioning and site inspections
Requirements summary:
- 3 to 5 years of illumination or traffic signal design experience
- Bachelor's in electrical engineering or college diploma in electrical engineering technology
- Proficiency in Civil 3D or AutoCAD
- Understanding of electrical distribution systems
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-16
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-16
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-30
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 3+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | evening |
| Work setting | Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), College diploma (required) |
| Fields of study | Electrical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Technology |
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SYSTRA
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Full company description
SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and mobility solutions. For more than 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure. With its 11,000 employees, the Group's mission is to connect people and bring territories closer together in the 80 countries where it operates. By making travel more fluid, the infrastructures designed by SYSTRA bring communities together, develop social integration and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure. A signature for transport solutions, SYSTRA supports its partners and clients throughout the lifecycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved at a very early stage in the design phase, right through to the deployment and maintenance test phases. SYSTRA provides all of its services in more than 80 countries worldwide and generates 80% of its turnover internationally. KEY FIGURES - €1.3 bn in sales in 2024 - 2nd international engineering company for Mass Transit & Rail* - 3d for Bridges* - 6th in the Transport sector* * Engineering News-Record (ENR) ranking, 2025
- LinkedIn followers
- 360,472
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 10,091
- Reported office locations
- 72 rue Henry Farman, Paris, 75015, FR
- Business categories
- Railroad
- Cyber Security
- Consulting
- Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Public Transportation
- Asset Management
- Smart Cities
- Project Management
- Civil Engineering
- Other recorded names
- SYSTRA
- Specialties
- Project management
- Design
- Sustainable and environmental studies
- Construction supervision
- Testing Commissioning
- Operation Maintenance
- Transport planning & Preliminary studies
- Infrastructure
- Systems engineering
- and Operation & Maintenance engineering
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
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SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and mobility solutions. For more than 65 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure. With its 11,000 employees, the Group's mission is to connect people and bring territories closer…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering Services |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | Project managementDesignSustainable and environmental studiesConstruction supervisionTesting CommissioningOperation MaintenanceTransport planning & Preliminary studiesInfrastructureSystems engineeringand Operation & Maintenance engineering |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 164 |
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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
In this role you will contribute to the successful design, production, coordination and management of Lighting/ signal design projects. You will develop lighting systems designs in AutoCAD and/or Civil 3D such as layout, single line diagrams, wiring schematics, photometric layouts, grounding details, prepare and review wire sizing, voltage drop and conduit capacity calculations. You will also be responsible for coordinating utilities for electrical infrastructure and transportation-related design and construction projects along with preparing technical reports, tender items, and providing field support such as commissioning and site inspections.
Missions/Main Duties
- Preparing engineering drawings using computer-aided design software and supporting calculations and documentation.
- Designing traffic signalization and street lighting systems for municipal or provincial projects.
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings and specifications.
- Generating drawings in various formats for approval and use by project stakeholders.
- Understanding electrical distribution systems to design and modify drawings.
- Performing project administration functions such as drawing distribution and management, coordination, and communication with project stakeholders.
- Maintaining project information, drawings, files, spreadsheets, and records.
- Attending design and project coordination meetings as required.
- Summarizing parts and materials from available literature and databases.
- Performing subdivision inspections for assumption reviews.
- Performing contract administration functions including tender, award, quantity review, completion, and assumption work.
- Working occasional evenings or weekends to meet deadlines.
- Performing miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Profile/Skills
- 3 to 5 years experience focused on Illumination Design / Traffic Signal Design
- Bachelor degree on Electrical Engineering or College diploma in Electrical Engineering Technology
- Proficient in Civil 3D or AutoCAD.
Salary Range - CAD 70,000 - 85,000
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
RemoteJournal
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