OCS Lead

Role overview

Engineering and delivery responsibilities

• Lead OCS engineering design and delivery across railway and transit infrastructure projects.
• Coordinate civil, structural, electrical, systems, and construction interfaces.
• Review, approve, and assure OCS designs, drawings, specifications, calculations, and deliverables.
• Sign and certify engineering reports and technical documentation in accordance with professional practice requirements.
• Coordinate clients, contractors, consultants, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Manage resources, workloads, schedules, budgets, risks, quality, and commercial reporting.
• Mentor engineers and designers and drive technical development and knowledge transfer.
• Provide construction, testing, commissioning, integration, and field issue support.
• Maintain project records, document control, technical correspondence, invoices, and commercial commitments.
• Prepare project performance presentations and support continuous improvement and engineering innovation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in Ontario.
• Minimum 10 years of railway experience focused on OCS design and delivery.
• Experience across feasibility, preliminary design, detailed design, and constructability assessment phases.
• Strong understanding of OCS, railway electrification systems, engineering delivery, standards, codes, and regulatory compliance.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams on rail and transit infrastructure projects.
• Proficiency with MicroStation and AutoCAD.
• Experience with design reviews, technical assessments, documentation reviews, schedules, budgets, reporting, risk management, and construction support.
• Fluent written and verbal English communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Commissioning supervision experience on railway infrastructure projects.
• Mainline, heavy rail, high-speed rail, metro, subway, or LRT program experience.
• PMP certification.
• Experience supporting testing, commissioning, operational handover, digital engineering, process improvement, or complex systems integration.

Project environment

• The role operates in multidisciplinary rail and transit project environments and supports construction, testing, commissioning, and system integration activities.

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