Posted 11 hours ago
Track Alignment (Design) Lead
@ SYSTRA
Toronto, Ontario
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and coordination of LRT/tram track alignments from concept through detailed design.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders, and construction partners to ensure alignment integration and constructability.
- Review track geometry, design criteria, standards, and technical deliverables.
- Balance operational speed, safety, maintainability, and multidisciplinary design constraints to develop practical track alignment solutions at intersections,…
- Lead, supervise, and provide technical guidance to engineers, designers, and technicians.
- Support project planning, risk management, and client communications.
Requirements summary:
- Define guideway loading design criteria , technical requirements, and structural design details.
- Review and validate drawings, specifications, and design calculations to ensure technical accuracy, completeness, and compliance with project requirements.
- Education/Experience - Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering .
- 10 years of experience in guideway and trackform structural design for rail or LRT projects .
- Experience with Autodesk Civil 3D for track alignment design, modelling, and drawing production.
- Reference Salary Range for the role is between $160,000 - $185,000, dependent on the experience.
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-09
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-09
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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
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- 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 | 165 |
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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
We are looking for a Track Alignment Lead to lead the team of Track Designers and deliver design on the Hamilton LRT Project.
Missions/Main Duties
- Lead the development and coordination of LRT/tram track alignments from concept through detailed design.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, stakeholders, and construction partners to ensure alignment integration and constructability.
- Review track geometry, design criteria, standards, and technical deliverables.
- Balance operational speed, safety, maintainability, and multidisciplinary design constraints to develop practical track alignment solutions at intersections, structures, and elevated guideways.
- Lead, supervise, and provide technical guidance to engineers, designers, and technicians.
- Support project planning, risk management, and client communications.
- Lead the design of the guideway and trackform structural systems, including ballasted track, slab track, special trackwork, transitions, and related elements.
- Define guideway loading design criteria, technical requirements, and structural design details.
- Coordinate closely with multidisciplinary teams, including geotechnical, structural, drainage, utilities, roadway, lighting, OCS, grounding and bonding, wayside equipment, alignment, noise and vibration, and cable containment designers.
- Review and validate drawings, specifications, and design calculations to ensure technical accuracy, completeness, and compliance with project requirements.
- Support constructability assessments, installation staging, and resolution of field issues during construction and installation.
- Provide technical input to ensure successful integration of guideway and trackform design with adjacent civil, structural, and systems interfaces.
Profile/Skills
Education/Experience - Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering.
- 10 years of experience in guideway and trackform structural design for rail or LRT projects.
- Communicate effectively in both English and French, including coordination with French-speaking technicians.
- Experience with Autodesk Civil 3D for track alignment design, modelling, and drawing production.
- Located within the project time zone to support day-to-day coordination, meetings, and collaboration with project teams and stakeholders.
- P.Eng. designation preferred; consideration will be given to candidates working toward professional registration.
- Reference Salary Range for the role is between $160,000 - $185,000, dependent on the experience.
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
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