Transit Structures Engineer

JOB SUMMARY

Rail Systems Branch provides oversight of the maintenance contractors which includes corrective and planned maintenance, life cycle management, trending, and analysis within Transit Engineering Services. The oversight includes both diesel and electric rail vehicles, track and infrastructure, stations, systems, and overall maintenance planning. 
 

You are responsible for taking a lead role in providing professional engineering advice and expertise. This can include but is not limited to monitoring, evaluating, auditing, and reviewing the performance of the rail system structures, civil infrastructure, and supporting assets across OC Transpo’s rail networks. Your role involves overseeing the development of quality metrics to assess the integrity of performance, asset conditions, and compliance with engineering standards and regulations. Additionally, you provide expert advice to both management and technical teams on structural maintenance and repair strategies.
 

You will review technical analyses, and support design submissions, and lead the tendering process for upgrades and new installations. You are also responsible for managing audits of rail and supporting structures and leading capital improvement projects. As the primary point of contact for all technical issues, you track, analyze, and report on the reliability of structure maintenance and lifecycle, addressing concerns related to all infrastructure assets.
 

You will provide project management services; you oversee both in-house and external resources for major infrastructure projects. You are responsible for monitoring and reporting project status, approving expenditures, and coordinating any necessary testing related to these projects.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

Completion of a 4-year university degree in Civil Engineering. 
 

Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible and practical experience in relevant engineering fields, with through knowledge of infrastructure system design, construction, and operation.
 

Experience in railway or mass transit sectors relating to infrastructure engineering, maintenance, and operation, testing and commissioning, overhaul planning, life cycle planning, and reliability improvement programs for new and existing rail systems is an asset.

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENCES

KNOWLEDGE

• Knowledge of railroad/transit operations, industry procedures and practices, with a focus on urban transit systems and infrastructure
• Knowledge of complex construction projects involving P3, infrastructure and/or Light Rail Transit
• Strong familiarity with the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, Ontario Structure Inspection Manual, and other relevant CSA standards, AREMA standards, Transport Canada standards, and mass transit APTA.
• Knowledge of reinforced concrete structures, pre-stress concrete, precast construction, steel structures
• Knowledge of underground structures, tunnels, geostructures (Support of Excavation, walls, invert slabs, cut-and-cover structures)
• Development lifecycle and lifecycle products in relation to infrastructure
• Systems architecture/interface modelling
• Behavioural/operational concept and lifecycle modelling
• Risk assessment (both technical and project)
• Project management techniques and practices associated with the planning, documentation, and monitoring of systems engineering activities.
• RAMS analysis including use of application software.
• Engineering Safety Management.
• Railway design safety principles and railway safety standards
• Rail systems including vehicles, signals, communications, building systems, and operations is an asset.
• Knowledge of applicable health and safety legislation, including the rights and duties of workers

COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Ability to apply a 'Systems Thinking' approach to problems at technical, project and enterprise levels.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate orally and written 
• Self-motivated and the ability to work under pressure 
• Team player and decision maker
• Work independently, with minimal direction, and collaboratively with all staff as part of a team
• Organizational skills and flexibility to plan, initiate, organize and prioritize own work, and deal effectively with multiple demands, conflicting priorities, pressures, and deadlines
• Able to manage projects and bring projects to completion on time and within budget
• Able to foster trust and cooperation to coordinate activities between technical staff, consultants and contractors.
• Able to identify and analyze and recommend solutions to issues and problems pertaining to assigned projects to mitigate loss/project downtime
• Able to assist and prepare RFQ’s and RFP’s, review, analyze and recommend acceptance of proposals
• Able to carry out inspections to resolve project on-site problems and accept/reject contractors’ work based on contact deliverables.
• Able to perform data analysis, formulate recommendations, and create and maintain reports
• Ability to read drawings from existing records or for proposed works