Metrolinx Looking for Project Manager, Joint Corridor (12 month contract) at Greater Toronto Area, Canada Full Time

This is a 12 month contract

Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

Our Ontario Line Office is seeking a Project Manager, Joint Corridor to administer a variety of tasks associated with the Ontario Line Project and supervise external consultants and Contractors involved in the provision and administration of a variety of services for the project, in a safe, timely, standardized and cost-effective manner for quality services.

What will I be doing?

• Performs complete start to close-out project management on selected complex, high-risk projects as required to meet corporate commitments, with or without staff delegation
• Serves as technical specialist on studies as well as design and construction matters.
• Defines the need for concept, preliminary or detail design alternatives and new or improved procedures, design standards, specifications or contract documents
• Provides administrative, design, editing, technical, estimating, and priority direction to staff and personnel assigned to individual projects, through all project stages
• Reviews requests for acquisitions, requisitions for purchase orders, change orders for contracts and addenda for consultant agreements
• Coordinates a number of complex tasks under pressure to meet schedule and budget commitments
• Reviews and evaluates consultant studies, reports, design proposals, specifications and contract documents, to meet established policies, procedures and standards
• Manages a complex capital transportation project from planning and design stages to commissioning and closeout, consistent with corporate commitments (budget, schedule, quality, etc.).
• Manages all aspects of project scope of work; initiates, prepares, and presents agreements that govern the engagement of consultants, suppliers, and contractors for execution.
• Ability to gather and process applicable project related information and provide detailed analysis during the development of conceptual, preliminary and detailed design, including design alternatives and value engineering alternatives.
• Manages projects involving effective coordination and liaison with a large number of internal and external stakeholders – including other areas of the Capital Projects Group and other Metrolinx departments, municipal or agency partners, and Railways.
• Coordinates procurement of contracts, property requests for acquisitions, purchase orders, change orders for supply/construction contracts and addenda for consultant assignments.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

• Completion of a degree in civil/structural engineering, or related field or a combination of relevant education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
• Minimum eight (8) years’ experience in managing and delivering projects involving planning, design, construction and commissioning with a preference given to railway track & structures in an operating railway environment.
• Demonstrated project management skills and experience to manage multiple complex, projects under pressure to meet schedule, budget, and quality requirements.
• Excellent oral, written/presentation, and interpersonal skills, and ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a large, matrix team environment.
• Ability to review drawings, engineering reports, design proposals, specifications
• Knowledge of contract law, the Occupational Health & Safety Act, and construction standards and procedures.
• Knowledge of DBB construction contracts with demonstrated experience of delivering transit infrastructure projects
• PMP certification is strongly desired.
• Project management experience to manage assigned projects of high value and complexity and supervise staff engaged in all stages of project management from start to close-out
• Experience on heavy rail projects is an asset
• Experience with on-corridor utilities, shoring, bridges and structures would be considered assets

Don’t Meet Every Requirement?

If you’re excited about working with Metrolinx but your past experience doesn’t quite align with every qualification of this posting, we encourage you to apply. You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles. We are always looking for great talent to join our team.

We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from members of equity-deserving communities, including those who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, women, people with disabilities, and people with diverse gender identities, expressions and sexual orientations.

Accommodation

We value the unique skills and experiences each person brings to Metrolinx and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment. We are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act so if you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our Recruitment team know by contacting us at: 416-202-5601 or email hr.recruitment@metrolinx.com .

Application Process

All applicants must be legally entitled to work in Canada. Metrolinx will be using email to communicate with you for all job competitions. It is your responsibility to include an updated email address that is checked daily and accepts emails from unknown users. As we send time-sensitive correspondence, we recommend that you check your email regularly. If no response is received, we will assume you are no longer interested in pursuing the opportunity. Please be advised that a Criminal Record Check may be required of the successful candidate.

For Internal applicants, with the recent implementation of the Internal Mobility Policy, the internal recruitment process has changed for non-union roles. Candidates must be in their current role for 12 months prior to applying for another role and each applicant must be in good standing (not participating in a Performance Improvement Plan). Please review all provisions of the policy before submitting your application.

Should it be determined that any background information provided is misleading, inaccurate or incorrect, Metrolinx reserves the right to discontinue with the consideration of your application.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.

WE ARE AN EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE EMPLOYER.