Posted 6 months ago
Electrical Engineer
@ SYSTRA
Montréal, Quebec
Overview
SYSTRA Canada is hiring an Electrical Engineer to deliver the electrical discipline work package for a station on the High-Speed Rail programme. The role covers multidisciplinary design coordination, interface management with rail systems and stakeholders, and acting as Engineer of Record for station discipline decisions. Full-time, requiring a P.Eng. and 10+ years of major infrastructure experience.
Responsibilities:
- Design and coordinate electrical discipline work package for the station
- Enforce technical governance and design review gates
- Coordinate interfaces with rail systems and programme components
- Support permitting, approvals and stakeholder engagement
- Oversee constructability, commissioning and handover
Requirements summary:
- Accredited engineering degree
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) or eligibility in Canada
- 10+ years in major infrastructure or transportation projects
- Experience in rail, metro or high-speed station design
- Bilingual English/French preferred
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-05-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English, French |
| Licences & certifications | P.Eng. |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Engineering, Electrical engineering |
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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
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- 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
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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 | 158 |
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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.
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Context
Reporting to the Design Manager of each respective station (with a technical reporting relationship to the Systemwide Lead), within the Co-Development Phase of the ALTO programme, the Engineer will provide design services, coordination and delivery of their work discipline work package for their respective station of the High-Speed Rail (HSR) programme. The Engineer is responsible for overseeing the planning, design and integration of their respective discipline, and station with associated elements of that station on the corridor, ensuring alignment with programme objectives, operational requirements, regulatory frameworks, and lifecycle performance targets. This role entails multidisciplinary design coordination (architecture, structural, MEP, utilities, fire/life safety, vertical transportation, civil interfaces, and rail systems integration), combined with applicable interface management across civil, rail systems, operations, and stakeholders. The Engineer acts as the accountable authority for station-specific discipline decisions and Engineer of Record.
Missions/Main Duties
Strategic Leadership, Design and Governance
- Support and uphold the overall Stations Development Strategy across all project phases (concept to commissioning).
- Implementation of the Station Development Plan, including:
- Uphold design strategy and station vision
- Adhering to programme milestones and delivery roadmap
- Comply with design maturity and review gates
- Comply with interface and integration strategy
- Input to risk and opportunity management
- Enforce disciplines technical governance frameworks for their respective discipline and station, including:
- Preparation of engineering discipline design drawings, reports and specifications
- Design review processes (eg. 30/70/90/IFC)
- Lead engineering design team members
- Change control and configuration management
- Design assurance and compliance mechanisms
- Decision-making and escalation processes
- Ensure disciplines alignment of station design with:
- Programme objectives and funding constraints
- Concept of Operations (ConOps) and service strategy
- Passenger experience and customer proposition
- Sustainability and climate resilience objectives
Programme-Level Interface Management:
- Work with Station Design Manager in the interface management between station and key programme components and programme-wide Interface Management
- Work with the Systemwide Engineer to ensure and implement consistent interface solutions of the station with overall framework.
Stakeholder and Authority Management
- Provide support to the Station Design Manager as needed for discipline input for station engagement as applicable with:
- Federal, provincial, and municipal authorities
- Transport Canada and regulatory bodies
- Utility providers and third parties
- Municipal planning and urban integration stakeholders
- Provide discipline materials for the permitting and approvals of the station.
- Ensure station designs comply with applicable Canadian codes and standards.
Passenger Experience and Operational Integration
- Understand and support the overall stations vision and passenger experience strategy across the programme
- Drive and ensure the engineering discipline of station complies with the vision and passenger experience, specifically ensure the station delivers:
- Efficient passenger flows and capacity
- Safe and compliant platform operations
- Seamless multimodal integration
- High-quality user experience and wayfinding
- Accessibility and universal design compliance
- Implement the engineering discipline’s integration of:
- Capacity study outputs
- Operational requirements
- Commercial and retail strategies
- Ensure the engineering discipline of the station complies with the design principles while allowing contextual adaptation
Risk, Cost, and Performance Management
- Work with the Station Design Manager in inputting disciplinary risks to the overall station programme, including:
- Design risks and constructability challenges
- Interface and integration risks
- Regulatory and approval risks
- Stakeholder-related constraints
- Work with the Station Design Manager in value engineering and optimization strategies at the discipline and station level
- Ensure alignment of the discipline’s scope with programme budget, schedule, and performance targets
- Monitor discipline’s own performance and ensure quality and consistency within the station
Procurement and Delivery Strategy
- Support the procurement strategy for station packages, including providing:
- Drawings and reports
- Technical and performance specifications
- Ensure coherence of station packages across interfaces and disciplines.
Construction and Delivery Oversight (potentially as per project agreements)
- Provide executive technical oversight for station constructability.
- Ensure design intent is maintained through delivery.
- Support resolution of major station specific technical issues and interface conflicts
- Oversee readiness for commissioning, handover, and operational integration of station
Profile/Skills
Experience & Technical Competencies
- Accredited degree in Engineering, or related discipline
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng. OIQ or both) or eligibility in Canada
- Bilingual (English/French) preferred
- 10+ years of experience in major infrastructure or transportation projects
- Experience in rail, metro, or high-speed rail station design and delivery
- Experience working in complex, highly regulated environments
- Experience with Alliance, PPP, or Design-Build delivery models (asset)
- Experience integrating new infrastructure with existing (brownfield) systems (asset)
Technical expertise
- Broad and strategic understanding across:
- Large-scale transportation architecture and station planning
- Competency in construction documents and specifications
- Structural and complex building systems
- MEP and building systems integration
- Fire/life safety and code compliance
- Passenger flow and operational modelling
- Multimodal integration and urban connectivity
- Sustainability and climate resilience
- BIM and digital engineering integration
- Interface management at programme scale
- Risk management and configuration control
- Strong understanding of integration between:
- Stations and rail systems
- Civil infrastructure and utilities
- Operations and maintenance requirements
- Safety, security, and regulatory frameworks
Soft Skills
- This role requires leadership in:
- Strategic thinking and vision
- Strong decision-making and accountability
- Ability to synthesize complex multidisciplinary inputs
- Communication and stakeholder experience
- Leadership and coaching of design team members
- Negotiation and conflict resolution
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].
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