Posted 2 months ago
Host Railway Engineer - ALTO
@ SYSTRA
Montréal, Quebec
Overview
SYSTRA Canada is hiring a Host Railway Engineer for the ALTO high-speed rail project linking Quebec City and Toronto. The role coordinates between the project and host railways on interfaces, operations, access and technical reviews, and requires 10+ years of railway experience and bilingual French and English. The posting states a hybrid workplace type.
Responsibilities:
- Identify and define interfaces between ALTO and existing railway infrastructure and operations
- Coordinate with host railways on operations, access, possessions and right-of-entry
- Coordinate technical reviews of design submissions with host railways
- Provide status updates, briefings and escalation reports on railway coordination
- Maintain records of railway commitments, approvals and access conditions
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, railway, transportation or systems engineering
- 10+ years in railway coordination, rail infrastructure or major transport projects
- Experience working with railway owners, operators or host railways
- Knowledge of railway safety, access planning and approval processes
- Fluent verbal and written French and English
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-09-01
- 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, Outdoors, Client sites |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English, French |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Engineering, Railway Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Systems 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
- 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
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
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.
Context
Join SYSTRA Canada in shaping the future of Canada with this impressive ALTO high-speed rail project connecting Quebec City to Toronto, the largest infrastructure project in Canada in generations.
The ALTO high-speed rail project aims to improve the quality of life of our citizens, strengthen ties between communities, and stimulate economic growth.
Are you convinced that a more sustainable world is possible and that mobility is an integral part of thinking about the future of our planet? Come aboard with SYSTRA Canada and be part of the project that will revolutionize the railway industry in Canada!
Missions/Main Duties
The Host Railway Engineer acts as the primary coordination point between the project and host railway organizations. The role works closely with design, construction planning, operations, systems, safety, and environmental teams to ensure that the ALTO project is developed in a manner that is compatible with existing railway operations and host railway requirements.
Host Railway Interface engineering
- Identify and define interfaces between the ALTO project and existing railway infrastructure, operations, corridors, facilities, property, assets, and systems.
- Develop and maintain railway interface registers, action trackers, decision logs, responsibility matrices, commitment registers, and issue registers.
- Ensure railway requirements, constraints, standards, review comments, operational rules, and approvals are captured and communicated to relevant project teams.
- Coordinate the resolution of interface issues between project design teams and host railway technical reviewers.
- Ensure railway interfaces are managed in a traceable and controlled manner throughout project development and delivery.
Railway Operations, Access, and Right-of-Entry Coordination
- Coordinate with host railways to understand existing and future railway operations, including train movements, corridor capacity, maintenance windows, operational restrictions, service constraints, and operational-change considerations.
- Coordinate project activities that may affect active railway corridors, including surveys, investigations, enabling works, construction staging, testing, commissioning, and inspections.
- Ensure project plans account for railway operational constraints and minimize disruption to existing freight, intercity, and passenger services.
Design and Technical Coordination
- Coordinate technical reviews with host railways for design submissions, corridor plans, track alignments, structures, drainage, utilities, systems, signaling, communications, electrification, grade separations, and other railway-related interfaces.
- Ensure host railway design criteria, standards, comments, operating requirements, and constraints are incorporated into project deliverables.
- Support the resolution of technical issues related to track geometry, clearances, structures, crossings, drainage, property limits, utilities, signaling interfaces, communications interfaces, railway systems, and constructability.
Reporting and Stakeholder Communication
- Provide regular status updates on railway coordination activities, open issues, risks, decisions, required approvals, upcoming submissions, and escalation items.
- Prepare briefing materials, meeting records, action logs, technical summaries, submission trackers, and escalation papers related to host railway matters.
- Contribute to project governance meetings, interface forums, design reviews, construction readiness reviews, testing readiness reviews, and executive briefings.
- Ensure clear communication between host railways and project teams.
- Maintain accurate records of railway commitments, correspondence, decisions, approvals, access conditions, and closeout obligations.
Profile/Skills
Education : Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, Railway Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Systems Engineering or a related discipline.
Years of experience : 10+ years of experience in railway coordination, rail infrastructure delivery, construction coordination, railway operations, or major transportation projects
Technical competencies :
- Proven experience working with railway owners, operators, host railways, passenger rail organizations, or railway asset owners.
- Experience coordinating works in or adjacent to active railway corridors.
- Experience with large linear infrastructure projects, preferably rail, transit, commuter rail, intercity rail, or high-speed rail.
- Good knowledge of railway operations, right-of-entry, access planning, possessions, work blocks, flagging, protection, safety requirements, technical reviews, and railway approval processes.
- Good knowledge of railway safety, operational-change risk assessment, access control, right-of-entry, flagging, protection, and work planning in active railway environments.
- Ability to translate railway requirements into project actions, design inputs, delivery constraints, construction methods, access requirements, and approval conditions.
- Clear verbal and written communication skills, both in French and in English*
*Reasons for requiring bilingualism: You will have the opportunity to work with a varied clientele, including both French- and English-speaking companies. Bilingualism is therefore fundamental to building strong relationships with our customers, understanding their specific needs, communicating effectively in their preferred language and facilitating strategic meetings.
Personal and soft skills :
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Strong coordination, collaboration, and influencing skills
- Effective problem-solving, negotiation, and conflict-resolution abilities
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities
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.
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].
Note: In this description, the masculine gender is used for easy reading purposes and includes the feminine.
Workplace Type
HybridJournal
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