Posted 4 months ago
Rail Access Planner
@ SYSTRA
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
SYSTRA Canada is hiring a Rail Access Planner to provide strategic guidance for integrated rail access plans and optimised access processes. The role covers constraint analysis, deconfliction, access negotiations, process improvement and use of the rail access planning tool. Salary is CAD 100,000 to 150,000 annually, full time.
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic access planning guidance and support
- Identify access constraints and develop mitigation strategies
- Support deconfliction analysis and implementation
- Support access negotiations and process improvements
- Support use and optimisation of the rail access planning tool
Requirements summary:
- At least fifteen years as a professional rail planner
- Extensive knowledge of railway access and safety issues
- Experience planning complex multidisciplinary works in operational corridors
- Experience leading rail access staff
- Experience with rail access booking systems
- Understanding of rules and regulations governing strategic access
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · icims
- Employer posting date
- 2026-07-16
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Business operations |
| Experience | 15+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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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 | 166 |
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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
The Rail Access Planner is responsible for providing strategic guidance that leads to integrated rail access plans and optimised rail access processes - driving for maximum access efficiency and safety.
Missions/Main Duties
· Providing strategic access planning guidance and support based on industry best practice, knowledge and lessons learned.
· Identifying access plan constraints and developing strategies to alleviate.
· Support all parties to plan, book and utilise appropriate access aligned to associated work activity with maximum efficiency.
· Assessing and determining need for change to access planning processes and methods and implementing changes to deliver improved performance.
· Supporting with deconfliction analysis and implementation.
· Supporting with improving visibility of planned and booked works.
· Support with access specific negotiations.
· Support access innovation – aiming to achieve cost reduction and improving safety.
· Providing expertise to maximise the available working windows.
· Support with the use and optimisation of the Rail access planning tool.
· Assist with adherence to access process, procedure, and standards.
· Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice.
Profile/Skills
Technical Competencies :
The key technical competencies required to perform the role well are outlined below.
Be a professional rail planner with at least fifteen years’ experience within the industry.Extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment.Knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.Extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environmentExtensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits.Have experience of planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.Have experience of leading rail access staff.Have experience of rail access booking systems.Be able to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.
About You :
You have experience as a professional rail access planner within the industry. You have extensive knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment. You have good knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment. You have extensive awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment.
You have extensive knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits. You have experience planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.
You have experience leading rail access staff. You have experience of rail access booking systems. You can understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.
Salary : CAD 100,000 - 150,000 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 [email protected].
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