Senior Project Engineer
Role Overview
The TTC is hiring a Senior Project Engineer in Engineering, Construction & Expansion to lead major multiyear capital projects supporting transit operations.
Projects may include structural rehabilitation, paving, facility renewal, station improvements, and other infrastructure investments.
The position reports to a Project Manager and coordinates multidisciplinary projects from inception through closeout.
Key Skills for This Role
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Career opportunity
The TTC is hiring a Senior Project Engineer in Engineering, Construction & Expansion to lead major multiyear capital projects supporting transit operations.
Projects may include structural rehabilitation, paving, facility renewal, station improvements, and other infrastructure investments.
The position reports to a Project Manager and coordinates multidisciplinary projects from inception through closeout.
Project delivery
- Develop work plans and coordinate, control, monitor, and supervise project delivery, ensuring safety, schedule, budget, quality, and approved objectives.
- Coordinate teams, operating departments, consultants, contractors, regulatory agencies, utility providers, municipal stakeholders, and other partners.
- Develop scopes, budgets, schedules, and approvals and advance work through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, handover, and closeout.
- Manage concurrent components across contracts and disciplines.
- Guide consultant and in-house design teams, track engineering milestones, resolve stakeholder comments, and keep designs aligned with project objectives.
- Oversee construction contract documents and support consultant selection, tender reviews, technical evaluations, and award recommendations.
- Support construction teams with engineering changes, technical issues, claims, contract administration, commissioning, and final handover.
- Prepare budgets, business cases, Board Reports, capital submissions, presentations, status reports, and leadership updates.
Skills
- Apply analytical skills and manage projects.
- Plan and organize activities to meet section and organizational goals.
- Use office technology, software, and applications and communicate through varied mediums.
- Apply quality assurance principles and practices.
Qualifications
- A university degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or a related discipline, with significant experience managing large multidisciplinary capital projects and programs.
- Ontario P.Eng., Registered Architect (OAA), or Licensed Architect credential is required.
- PMP designation is listed as a qualification.
- Extensive experience delivering major infrastructure, engineering, construction, transit, transportation, facilities, or public-sector capital projects.
- Experience managing complex multiyear programs and knowledge of engineering, project management, planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.
- Knowledge of construction techniques, contract administration, inspection, contractor management, and project controls.
- Experience managing consultant assignments, engineering services contracts, design teams, and multidisciplinary stakeholders.
- Ability to develop project scopes, budgets, schedules, work plans, procurement strategies, and implementation plans.
- Strong project controls knowledge, leadership, stakeholder management, negotiation, communication, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and project management software.
- Valid, non-probationary Ontario Class G driver's license in good standing.
Assets
- Experience with transit, railway, transportation, municipal infrastructure, facilities, or heavy construction projects is an asset.
- Experience managing capital programs with concurrent design and construction contracts is an asset.
- Experience preparing Board Reports, business cases, capital budget submissions, and executive presentations is an asset.
- Experience with public consultation, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory approvals is an asset.
- Familiarity with alternative delivery models, value engineering, lifecycle costing, and constructability reviews is an asset.
Schedule and term
- The role is temporary until November 2027.
- The work week is 35 hours, with Saturday and Sunday off and a day shift.
Work arrangement
- The employer describes a flexible hybrid work approach combining remote work with in-person collaboration.
Salary information
- The posting lists salary information of 115,570.00–144,526.20 without specifying a pay period.
Benefits
- The posting describes membership in the TTC defined pension plan for full-time TTC employees.
Hiring process notes
- The employer states that application materials and interview responses must be candidates' own work and prohibits using AI tools for submitted materials or interview responses.
- The TTC may request disclosure of relatives employed by the organization if a candidate is selected for interview.
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