Posted 4 days ago
Rail Maintenance Facility Director - Engineering Services
@ SYSTRA
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
SYSTRA Canada is hiring a Rail Maintenance Facility Director to provide senior technical leadership and engineering governance for rail maintenance facilities, yards and depots across the Metrolinx capital transit expansion portfolio. The role oversees multidisciplinary facility reviews, interface and technical risks, compliance frameworks and safety certification, and leads engineering specialists and consultants. The posting states the role is on-site and full-time, tied to the Delivery Partners on Go Expansion program.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multidisciplinary technical reviews of rail maintenance facility designs
- Manage engineering hazard logs, interface matrices and technical risks
- Establish engineering standards and technical compliance frameworks
- Support safety certification, regulatory approvals and operational readiness
- Mentor facility engineering specialists and discipline leads
Requirements summary:
- P.Eng. in good standing with PEO preferred
- Bachelor's or master's degree in an engineering discipline
- 10+ years heavy rail infrastructure experience, 5+ in senior or director role
- Knowledge of IEEE, ISO and CENELEC standards
- Knowledge of OHSA, Ontario Building Code and Transport Canada requirements
- Senior leadership and stakeholder management skills
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · icims
- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-03
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-03
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-03
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Job details
| Seniority | Director |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Management experience | 5+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Plant or factory, Construction site |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Licences & certifications | P.Eng. |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical 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 | 163 |
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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
This role is associated with the Delivery Partners on Go Expansion program
Missions/Main Duties
Provide strategic technical leadership, engineering governance and specialist oversight for Rail Maintenance Facilities (RMF), yards and depot infrastructure across the Metrolinx capital transit expansion portfolio. Serve as the senior technical authority for multidisciplinary rail maintenance facility engineering reviews and stage-gate validations, translating high-level
Systems Engineering, network and fleet requirements into actionable facility-level engineering requirements.
Lead multidisciplinary technical reviews and integration of facility civil, structural, mechanical and electrical infrastructure with specialized rail systems, including signalling, traction power/OCS, maintenance equipment, wheel truing machines and automated train wash facilities. Provide senior oversight of engineering hazard logs, interface matrices, failure mode analysis and technical risks to identify and resolve interface issues before facility commissioning.
Establish and oversee technical compliance frameworks, engineering standards, design variations, technical submittals and asset performance requirements. Support safety certification, regulatory approvals, system acceptance and operational readiness and act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues. Lead and mentor facility engineering specialists and discipline leads, while driving technical compliance and accountability across engineering consultants, delivery partners, consortia and specialist suppliers..
This role is required to provide centralized technical leadership, engineering governance and assurance for Metrolinx rail maintenance facilities, yards and depot infrastructure across the capital transit expansion portfolio. These facilities contain complex interfaces between civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and railway systems and require senior technical oversight to ensure that Systems Engineering and fleet requirements are correctly translated into facility design and delivery.
The role will provide independent technical governance of designs produced by delivery partners, manage facility-level technical and interface risks, oversee compliance with engineering and regulatory requirements and provide senior technical assurance supporting facility acceptance and operational readiness. This is critical to ensuring that new and modified rail maintenance facilities are safe, compliant, operationally effective and capable of supporting Metrolinx's expanding rail network and fleet throughout the asset lifecycle.
Profile/Skills
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in good standing with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) preferred, with comprehensive knowledge of the Ontario Professional Engineers Act.
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering or an equivalent technical engineering discipline.
10+ years of progressive heavy rail infrastructure engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years in a senior leadership or director capacity delivering heavy rail maintenance facility designs, major brownfield depot expansions or rolling stock maintenance infrastructure programs.
Advanced engineering knowledge of railway depot layout design, automated testing and maintenance equipment interfaces, yard trackwork configurations and relevant systems engineering lifecycle standards, including IEEE, ISO and CENELEC frameworks.
Strong knowledge of provincial and national regulatory requirements applicable to complex industrial facility construction and operations, including the Occupational Health and Safety Act, Ontario Building Code and Transport Canada requirements.
Demonstrated senior leadership, stakeholder management, technical governance and communication capability, with experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams, managing complex interfaces and risks and influencing engineering consultants, delivery
partners and specialist suppliers.
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
On-siteJournal
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