Manager, Fleet Maintenance / Fleet Service
Top Benefits
About the role
Manager, Fleet Maintenance / Manager, Fleet Service (Train Maintenance & Fleet Service)
This posting represents two management vacancies. Successful candidates will be appointed to either the Manager, Fleet Maintenance or Manager, Fleet Service role based on experience, organizational needs, and fit.
Are you a proven operational leader who thrives in a safety-critical, fast-paced environment and understands what it takes to keep trains moving reliably, predictably, and safely?
At BCRTC, our rolling stock is central to delivering safe, reliable service every day across one of the world’s longest fully automated rapid transit transit systems. In this combined role, you are accountable for frontline fleet maintenance execution and daily fleet service delivery that ensures trains are safe, available, and ready to meet service requirements in a 24/7 operating environment.
BCRTC is in a period of meaningful evolution across fleet reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and service readiness. You are stepping into a role with a clear change mandate, strengthening planning-to-execution discipline, modernizing how work is delivered and measured, improving how in-service failures are triaged and resolved, and developing the leadership capability required to sustain a growing and increasingly complex network.
Responsibilities
As a valued member of our leadership team and a critical operational partner to the enterprise, here are some of the exciting performance outcomes you will deliver.
- Using your strong abilities in operational leadership, communication, and relationship building, you will lead fleet maintenance and service teams to deliver safe, reliable, high-performance outcomes that support daily service and protect train availability.
- You will bring structure and clarity to a high-dependency operating environment, ensuring priorities are aligned across maintenance, service delivery, Operations/Control, Safety, and Engineering to minimize service impacts and strengthen performance.
- You are disciplined in execution and strong in operational judgment, and you will deliver approved asset and maintenance plans by balancing labour, facilities, inventory, and operational requirements across preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, service-effecting failures, and safety-hazard response.
- You will strengthen day-to-day execution by setting clear expectations, driving schedule adherence, and ensuring work is completed to consistent quality standards that sustain a state of good repair.
- You are energized by continuous improvement and leading change, and you will drive measurable gains in fleet performance by increasing the proportion of planned work, reducing avoidable reactive maintenance, improving maintenance turnaround time, and elevating shop throughput.
- You will use performance insights to identify bottlenecks, standardize workflows, strengthen defect triage and prioritization, and implement improvements that stick.
- You are calm, decisive, and credible in dynamic service-critical conditions, and you will lead effective daily fleet service delivery including train movement, service recovery, and emergency/incident response. During unplanned events and in-service failures, you will ensure clear communication, strong coordination, and safe, timely decision-making that stabilizes operations and restores service.
- You bring a people-centered leadership approach, and you will develop and strengthen supervisory and frontline capability in a large, unionized workforce.
- You will build clarity around expectations, reinforce accountability, coach leaders through complex workforce matters, and support teams through ongoing operational and organizational change, building confidence while sustaining performance.
- Quality and safety guide your leadership, and you will ensure maintenance and service activities consistently meet regulatory, safety, and quality requirements.
- You will strengthen quality practices through inspections, audits, defect resolution, and corrective actions, and you will contribute operational expertise to fleet-related capital and improvement initiatives by supporting maintenance readiness and long-term sustainment of new or modified assets.
What You Bring
- You bring a strong technical foundation through a diploma or degree in engineering or a related discipline, along with extensive leadership experience in a safety-critical, 24/7 operational or maintenance environment such as transit, rail, aviation, utilities, ports, energy, or heavy industry.
- You also bring proven experience leading within a large, unionized organization where safety, reliability, and people leadership are central to success.
If you are a leader who thrives in complex systems, communicates with clarity, and is motivated by strengthening execution, developing teams, and improving fleet reliability and service readiness through meaningful change, we would love to connect.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
The competencies of this position would be acquired through completion of Diploma or Degree in Engineering, plus eight years of maintenance management experience in a large, unionized organization. Experience in transportation, large infrastructure or rail industry is preferred.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Advanced knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices and techniques pertaining to maintenance within the transit industry.
- Advanced planning and organizational skills to develop strategies and plans, with particular emphasis on operational and resource planning to optimize service and control cost.
- Solid knowledge on safety and workplace compliance regulations and legislations.
- Solid interpersonal skills to provide expertise and advice to BCRTC Senior management and to represent BCRTC on internal/external committees and stakeholder meetings.
- Solid knowledge of emergency response planning and services.
- Solid computer skills in standard office suites and web-based systems.
Other Information
Recruitment Process: An applicant will be required to demonstrate their suitability for this position by meeting the minimum level of qualifications and experience in order to be invited into the selection process. A standard interview format will be used including general, scenario and behavioural descriptive interview questions.
Work Schedule
37.5 hours per week.
Work Designation
Resident
This position works predominately on-site.
Rate of Pay
The salary for this position ranges from $107,200 - $160,800 per annum. Actual salary offered will be based on education, experience, skills, and qualifications as they relate to the role.
We aim to provide competitive pay that reflects your professional background and expertise. We want to ensure our offer will align with your strengths considering experience, skills, and internal equity to offer a fair and equitable salary. The Total Compensation Package, which includes Extended Health, Dental, Transit Pass and enrollment in the Public Service Pension Plan as well as other employment offerings will be discussed in detail as your application progresses.
How to Apply
Please click the 'Apply' button at the top right corner or go to http://www.translink.ca/careers to apply for this position and view instructions on the process.
INSTRUCTIONS: Please save your (1) cover letter, and your (2) resume as one pdf document prior to uploading your application on-line.
Please note that only those short listed will be contacted.
Having trouble applying? Please view the System Requirements & FAQ's by going to http://www.translink.ca/careers.
Equal Employment Opportunity
SkyTrain is committed to employment equity and building a diverse workforce, representative of the customers we serve and the many communities in the Metro Vancouver region. We welcome and encourage Indigenous applicants, people of colour, all genders, 2SLGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities to apply. Learn more about TransLink's commitment to to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. For a confidential inquiry, simply email us at jobs@translink.ca.
About TransLink
TransLink is Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation authority and as an enterprise, we’re proud to be one of BC’s Top Employers.
Stand on a street corner in Metro Vancouver and very likely, within a couple minutes, you’ll see us! We are the people and goods movers for our region. But, what does that mean?
We manage and operate an integrated regional transportation system — connecting communities by bus, rail, SeaBus, custom transit services, pedestrian and cycling paths, the Major Road Network and five bridges. Helping people and goods get from A to B — that’s our bread and butter. At the same time, we help deliver the region’s goal of creating a greener, more sustainable, more livable Metro Vancouver.
We serve 500,000 people a day — young and old from all parts of our region and all walks of life. We deliver them to the people and places that matter to them, and back again. Our employees are united by the common goal of delivering the best to our customers no matter where they work — the shop floor, in the drivers’ seat, planning for the future, managing our Compass Card system, keeping customers safe, or staffing our stations, just to name a few.
Our enterprise includes TransLink and three operating companies: B.C. Rapid Transit Company, Coast Mountain Bus Company, and Transit Police.
We’re delivering for today and planning for the future, and we’re always looking for top talent. Want to see where you fit in? Check out translink.ca/careers.
Manager, Fleet Maintenance / Fleet Service
Top Benefits
About the role
Manager, Fleet Maintenance / Manager, Fleet Service (Train Maintenance & Fleet Service)
This posting represents two management vacancies. Successful candidates will be appointed to either the Manager, Fleet Maintenance or Manager, Fleet Service role based on experience, organizational needs, and fit.
Are you a proven operational leader who thrives in a safety-critical, fast-paced environment and understands what it takes to keep trains moving reliably, predictably, and safely?
At BCRTC, our rolling stock is central to delivering safe, reliable service every day across one of the world’s longest fully automated rapid transit transit systems. In this combined role, you are accountable for frontline fleet maintenance execution and daily fleet service delivery that ensures trains are safe, available, and ready to meet service requirements in a 24/7 operating environment.
BCRTC is in a period of meaningful evolution across fleet reliability, maintenance effectiveness, and service readiness. You are stepping into a role with a clear change mandate, strengthening planning-to-execution discipline, modernizing how work is delivered and measured, improving how in-service failures are triaged and resolved, and developing the leadership capability required to sustain a growing and increasingly complex network.
Responsibilities
As a valued member of our leadership team and a critical operational partner to the enterprise, here are some of the exciting performance outcomes you will deliver.
- Using your strong abilities in operational leadership, communication, and relationship building, you will lead fleet maintenance and service teams to deliver safe, reliable, high-performance outcomes that support daily service and protect train availability.
- You will bring structure and clarity to a high-dependency operating environment, ensuring priorities are aligned across maintenance, service delivery, Operations/Control, Safety, and Engineering to minimize service impacts and strengthen performance.
- You are disciplined in execution and strong in operational judgment, and you will deliver approved asset and maintenance plans by balancing labour, facilities, inventory, and operational requirements across preventive maintenance, corrective repairs, service-effecting failures, and safety-hazard response.
- You will strengthen day-to-day execution by setting clear expectations, driving schedule adherence, and ensuring work is completed to consistent quality standards that sustain a state of good repair.
- You are energized by continuous improvement and leading change, and you will drive measurable gains in fleet performance by increasing the proportion of planned work, reducing avoidable reactive maintenance, improving maintenance turnaround time, and elevating shop throughput.
- You will use performance insights to identify bottlenecks, standardize workflows, strengthen defect triage and prioritization, and implement improvements that stick.
- You are calm, decisive, and credible in dynamic service-critical conditions, and you will lead effective daily fleet service delivery including train movement, service recovery, and emergency/incident response. During unplanned events and in-service failures, you will ensure clear communication, strong coordination, and safe, timely decision-making that stabilizes operations and restores service.
- You bring a people-centered leadership approach, and you will develop and strengthen supervisory and frontline capability in a large, unionized workforce.
- You will build clarity around expectations, reinforce accountability, coach leaders through complex workforce matters, and support teams through ongoing operational and organizational change, building confidence while sustaining performance.
- Quality and safety guide your leadership, and you will ensure maintenance and service activities consistently meet regulatory, safety, and quality requirements.
- You will strengthen quality practices through inspections, audits, defect resolution, and corrective actions, and you will contribute operational expertise to fleet-related capital and improvement initiatives by supporting maintenance readiness and long-term sustainment of new or modified assets.
What You Bring
- You bring a strong technical foundation through a diploma or degree in engineering or a related discipline, along with extensive leadership experience in a safety-critical, 24/7 operational or maintenance environment such as transit, rail, aviation, utilities, ports, energy, or heavy industry.
- You also bring proven experience leading within a large, unionized organization where safety, reliability, and people leadership are central to success.
If you are a leader who thrives in complex systems, communicates with clarity, and is motivated by strengthening execution, developing teams, and improving fleet reliability and service readiness through meaningful change, we would love to connect.
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
The competencies of this position would be acquired through completion of Diploma or Degree in Engineering, plus eight years of maintenance management experience in a large, unionized organization. Experience in transportation, large infrastructure or rail industry is preferred.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS:
- Advanced knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices and techniques pertaining to maintenance within the transit industry.
- Advanced planning and organizational skills to develop strategies and plans, with particular emphasis on operational and resource planning to optimize service and control cost.
- Solid knowledge on safety and workplace compliance regulations and legislations.
- Solid interpersonal skills to provide expertise and advice to BCRTC Senior management and to represent BCRTC on internal/external committees and stakeholder meetings.
- Solid knowledge of emergency response planning and services.
- Solid computer skills in standard office suites and web-based systems.
Other Information
Recruitment Process: An applicant will be required to demonstrate their suitability for this position by meeting the minimum level of qualifications and experience in order to be invited into the selection process. A standard interview format will be used including general, scenario and behavioural descriptive interview questions.
Work Schedule
37.5 hours per week.
Work Designation
Resident
This position works predominately on-site.
Rate of Pay
The salary for this position ranges from $107,200 - $160,800 per annum. Actual salary offered will be based on education, experience, skills, and qualifications as they relate to the role.
We aim to provide competitive pay that reflects your professional background and expertise. We want to ensure our offer will align with your strengths considering experience, skills, and internal equity to offer a fair and equitable salary. The Total Compensation Package, which includes Extended Health, Dental, Transit Pass and enrollment in the Public Service Pension Plan as well as other employment offerings will be discussed in detail as your application progresses.
How to Apply
Please click the 'Apply' button at the top right corner or go to http://www.translink.ca/careers to apply for this position and view instructions on the process.
INSTRUCTIONS: Please save your (1) cover letter, and your (2) resume as one pdf document prior to uploading your application on-line.
Please note that only those short listed will be contacted.
Having trouble applying? Please view the System Requirements & FAQ's by going to http://www.translink.ca/careers.
Equal Employment Opportunity
SkyTrain is committed to employment equity and building a diverse workforce, representative of the customers we serve and the many communities in the Metro Vancouver region. We welcome and encourage Indigenous applicants, people of colour, all genders, 2SLGBTQ+ and persons with disabilities to apply. Learn more about TransLink's commitment to to equity, diversity and inclusion.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. For a confidential inquiry, simply email us at jobs@translink.ca.
About TransLink
TransLink is Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation authority and as an enterprise, we’re proud to be one of BC’s Top Employers.
Stand on a street corner in Metro Vancouver and very likely, within a couple minutes, you’ll see us! We are the people and goods movers for our region. But, what does that mean?
We manage and operate an integrated regional transportation system — connecting communities by bus, rail, SeaBus, custom transit services, pedestrian and cycling paths, the Major Road Network and five bridges. Helping people and goods get from A to B — that’s our bread and butter. At the same time, we help deliver the region’s goal of creating a greener, more sustainable, more livable Metro Vancouver.
We serve 500,000 people a day — young and old from all parts of our region and all walks of life. We deliver them to the people and places that matter to them, and back again. Our employees are united by the common goal of delivering the best to our customers no matter where they work — the shop floor, in the drivers’ seat, planning for the future, managing our Compass Card system, keeping customers safe, or staffing our stations, just to name a few.
Our enterprise includes TransLink and three operating companies: B.C. Rapid Transit Company, Coast Mountain Bus Company, and Transit Police.
We’re delivering for today and planning for the future, and we’re always looking for top talent. Want to see where you fit in? Check out translink.ca/careers.