Senior Rail Track Design Engineer

TYLin is a globally recognized, full‑service infrastructure consulting firm committed to providing innovative, cost‑effective, constructible designs for the global infrastructure market. With over 3,000 employees throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, the firm provides support on projects of varying size and complexity. Together, we enhance conventional designs with smarter, more resilient systems. We provide people with better mobility. We steward precious resources by finding more sustainable solutions.

We are seeking experienced professionals interested in a future opportunity with TYLin as a Senior Rail Track Design Engineer; while interviews may not occur immediately, we are keen to connect with individuals who anticipate being ready to make a career move within the next three to six months.

The Senior Rail Track Design Engineer will lead the planning, design, and delivery of rail and transit track infrastructure across Canada. This role is ideal for an experienced rail engineering professional with deep technical expertise in track design, alignment geometry, corridor integration, and multidisciplinary coordination.

You will play a key role in delivering complex rail projects—including LRT, heavy rail, commuter rail, and yard/maintenance facilities—while supporting the growth of our national Rail + Transit practice.

• Serve as the discipline lead for track design on major rail and transit projects.
• Lead development of horizontal and vertical alignments, turnouts, crossovers, special trackwork, and yard layouts.
• Oversee preparation and review of design drawings, specifications, design criteria, and technical reports.
• Conduct and review corridor assessments, constructability analyses, staging plans, and design alternatives.
• Ensure seamless integration with signalling, traction power, OCS, communications, civil, structural, and geotechnical disciplines.
• Provide senior technical review, quality assurance, and risk mitigation guidance.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams through feasibility, preliminary design, detailed design, and implementation phases.
• Engage with clients, rail operators, and regulatory authorities to resolve technical issues and support decision making.
• Mentor and develop junior and intermediate rail engineers, fostering technical excellence within the practice.
• Contribute to business development, proposal strategy, and client relationship management.
• Advance TYLin’s internal best practices for track design, rail corridor integration, and constructible engineering solutions.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline
• Minimum 15 years of experience in rail track design for LRT, heavy rail, commuter rail, or freight rail projects.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario, Alberta, or British Columbia.
• Demonstrated leadership delivering complex rail infrastructure projects.
• Advanced proficiency in track geometry design, alignment modelling, and corridor integration.
• Experience with design tools such as Bentley Open Rail, Micro Station, Civil3D, or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of AREMA, Transport Canada guidelines, and applicable provincial/municipal standards.
• Experience coordinating with rail systems disciplines (signaling, OCS, traction power, communications).
• Strong understanding of constructability, staging, maintenance of way requirements, and rail operations constraints.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to clients, stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Experience working with Canadian transit agencies and rail operators is an asset.

TYLin is committed to pay equity. As part of that commitment, we have provided the base compensation range of $115,000 - $160,000 annually for this position and local market. We recognize that each candidate brings a unique set of skills, experience, education and competencies to the table that will be reflected in our offer. TYLin is proud to offer exciting career development opportunities.

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