Job Description 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 Capital Projects Group (CPG) workforce is made up of driven and dedicated professionals who care deeply about working together to deliver infrastructure and make a positive impact in our communities. Join us as we build a knowledgeable and collaborative team that courageously changes how transit projects will be delivered.

Our Hamilton LRT project is looking for a Director, SRS to join the team! You will manage the delivery and implementation of the SRS scope for this multi-billion-dollar LRT project, including conceptual design, procurement, engineering, and construction.

Purpose of the Role The Director SRS provides overall leadership and direction for the delivery, integration, and assurance of systems across the Project. This includes all railway systems—signalling, train control, communications, power, SCADA, stop (at vehicle stopping points) systems—ensuring they are specified, procured, delivered, integrated, tested, and commissioned to meet safety, performance, and reliability requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the systems strategy for the project, ensuring alignment with organizational goals, regulatory frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Systems Delivery Oversight: Manage the full lifecycle of systems scope—from design and procurement through to installation, testing, commissioning, and handover into operations.
• Integration: Lead systems integration across multiple work packages and disciplines, ensuring seamless interaction between railway systems, civil works, rolling stock, and operations.
• Safety & Assurance: Ensure compliance with safety assurance processes, regulatory approvals, and standards, embedding safety as a central principle throughout design and delivery.
• Risk & Issue Management: Identify and address technical and program risks, propose mitigation strategies, and resolve conflicts that may impact project outcomes.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary interface with internal stakeholders (operations, maintenance, safety) and external stakeholders (city authorities, regulators, utility providers, contractors).
• Team Leadership: Provide direction, coaching, and oversight to a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective collaboration across engineering, project management, and external consultants.
• Commercial & Contracting: Contribute to collaborative contracting approaches (e.g., alliance, progressive design build, CMAR), ensuring systems requirements are clearly defined and enforced in supplier contracts.
• Performance, Reliability & Budget Control: Champion whole-system performance objectives—including reliability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost considerations—while ensuring delivery remains within approved budgets and financial constraints.

Essential Attributes

• Strong technical grounding in railway systems engineering and integration.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large, complex, multi-year infrastructure programs within defined budgetary limits.
• Skilled communicator and consensus-builder with the ability to balance technical, commercial, and political pressures.
• Track record of leadership in high-profile, multi-stakeholder environments.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

• A degree in Engineering or a related discipline (P.Eng designation preferred).
• Demonstrated experience in capital project management and implementation, including experience managing large, complex, multi-year transit projects.
• Project management and coordination skills to provide senior leadership and oversight to staff and project teams within budget and schedule restraints and monitor project performance against business objectives.
• Knowledge and understanding of collaborative contracting models (Alliance, Progressive etc.)
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of construction engineering, construction processes and value engineering.
• Extensive knowledge of financial theories, principles and practices, procurement, fiscal planning, modern controllership frameworks and the overall business planning, estimates, expenditure, and allocations plan processes; understanding of the decision-making processes to develop appropriate strategic approaches to capital funding.
• Leadership skills, including interpersonal, presentation, communication, negotiation, and consensus building, and ability to manage a diverse group of project specialists and consultants to accomplish the goals of the agency within established scopes, schedules, and budgets.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills to manages complex project issues and risks and facilitate effective resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain strategic relationships to work across division and with internal and external stakeholders/clients.
• Collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholder

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 be 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.

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