Senior Project Engineer, Rail and Transit

Overview

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This is your chance to shape tomorrow’s transit and infrastructure systems right here in the GTA. As a Senior Project Engineer
, you’ll support one of our major clients by coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, guiding complex construction initiatives, and ensuring the successful delivery of high‑impact capital projects.

You’ll work in a hybrid environment, spending at least two days per week embedded with our client to drive collaboration, problem‑solving, and delivery excellence.

• Develop project concepts and scope of work, aligning with stakeholder requirements.

• Define quality standards, budget parameters, schedule expectations, and scope breakdowns.

• Prepare scope and construction review sign‑off documents and secure stakeholder approvals of scope and construction review design and contract specification.

• Manage design progress from preliminary through detailed phases and conduct design review meetings including constructability and maintainability.

• Approve engineering work plans and ensure compliance with scope, schedule, and budget.

• Coordinate design compliance with project scope, quality, budget, and schedule by integrating constructability and maintainability requirements across all departments.

• Initiate alternative analyses, engineering studies, and life cycle cost assessments to support cost‑effective design and construction solutions.

• Oversee preparation of construction contract documents.

• Supervise technical specification development and provide ongoing engineering support during construction.

• Manage contract changes and ensure technical compliance and lead close‑out documentation review and as‑built coordination.

• Prepare Project Summary Sheets and Justification Reports and coordinate budgeting with Capital Programming and Estimating teams.

• Prepare project administration documents: work plans, change orders, procurement requests, status reports.

• You hold a Professional Engineering license (PEO) or are licensed through the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA).

• You bring 7+ years of experience delivering engineering and construction projects within a transit operating environment.

• You have hands‑on experience supporting or leading heavy construction or large, multidisciplinary capital programs.

• You understand the Construction Act, contracting processes, inspection practices, and engineering principles that drive successful delivery.

• You’re proficient in managing complex stakeholder groups and navigating technical, operational, and schedule‑driven requirements.

• You are comfortable preparing and reviewing technical contract documents, scopes, specifications, and engineering reports.

• You are skilled with Microsoft Office and familiar with tools commonly used in engineering project administration.

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• Limitless opportunities start here. We help you tailor your role to match your ambition—because your growth drives ours.

• Flexible work, real balance — we encourage you to prioritize what matters most.

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $114,600 – $151,800

MB & ON: $104,500 – $143,900

NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $103,500 – $137,400

The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business…