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.

This role is an in‑office position based at our downtown Toronto location. Our team is highly collaborative, and much of our work benefits from in‑person co‑creation, relationship‑building, and hands‑on partnership with leaders across the organization.

We’re looking for an Asset Management Specialist to join our Engineering & Safety team. The core focus will be identifying, analyzing, and interpreting patterns and trends in complex data sets for asset class discipline functions.

Why Join Metrolinx?

• Work that makes an impact across all of Metrolinx as well as the GTHA
• Learning and development opportunities
• An open and inclusive work environment
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits, and wellness spending account
• Defined Benefit OMERS Pension plan

What will I be doing?

• Implement and sustain processes on importing, cleaning, transforming, validating and modelling data across all databases and systems utilized by S&C AM team for monitoring the reliability of Signals infrastructure.
• Obtain, model and analyze asset utilization data from operational logs and similar databases to establish correlation with asset failures.
• Utilize Signals datasets to facilitate FRACAS, Root Cause Analysis (RCAs) and generation of meaningful reports to support evidence-based decision making, consisting of dashboards, charts, graphs and/or tables to assist Signals Maintenance Delivery, Asset Management and Engineering teams with asset performance and failure summaries.
• Support Signals teams in designing and tracking RAMS metrics for Metrolinx signal assets and development of failure reporting strategies, including tracking failure mode trends across all failure categories.
• Manage and maintain existing Signals datasets on asset failures, utilization, operational logs, safety incidents, etc. within the asset management framework.
• Connect and correlate asset performance with data on rail operations for assessing the impact of signal asset reliability on rail service.
• Support the presentation of data in dashboards, charts, graphs and/or tables by building, designing and maintaining tools and applications for data processing and automation.
• Conduct and support exercises on RCAs and deep-dives within the Signals teams on specific failure modes or incidents for identifying corrective actions and tracking their progress and impact on asset reliability improvement.
• Design and maintain online applications, process automations and/or programming scripts to merge/combine and process information from multiple datasets comprising of asset specifications, usage, failure summaries, service delays, etc. for use by management, internal business units and stakeholders, to enable Asset Management Maturity and process improvement.
• Support continuous improvement of reliability and failure analysis by identifying gaps and implementing corrective actions.
• Support the monitoring and improvement of asset data integrity through periodic touchpoints for tracking, identification of issues and corrective actions.
• Liaise with other Metrolinx teams for information sharing and collaboration on joint activities.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

• University degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, Statistics, or a related discipline, or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
• Strong background in analytics including data transformation and processing, predictive modelling, statistical analysis, exploratory analysis and explanatory analysis.
• Experience in programming languages such as Python, SQL, etc.
• Experience handling datasets using pandas, numpy, matplotlib and other standard python libraries.
• Experience with building machine learning models (using scikit-learn, scipy and other similar libraries).
• Experience connecting to different data sources using requests library.
• Experience using Power Automate, PowerBI and other associated automation tools in Microsoft environment.
• Experience with different methods of connecting to databases, extracting/loading data and processing it thereafter for meaningful analysis.
• Strong communication skills, attention to detail, problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn about signaling 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 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.  

WE ARE AN EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE EMPLOYER.

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