At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.
Metrolinx promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by ensuring equal employment opportunities and fostering a supportive workplace culture.
We support this commitment by providing:
- Competitive Pension Plan
- Employee learning & development programs and reimbursement
- Recognition of prior Public Service for Vacation Entitlement
- Employee Assistance and Wellness Benefit Programs
- Parental Leave top-up, lactations accommodation and childcare partnerships
- Menopause Policy
- Employee Resource Groups
Our Safety & System Assurance Division is looking for a Director, Safety Assurance Requirements & Contracts to provide overarching strategic leadership in the development, integration, and oversight of the Enterprise System Safety Assurance Requirements Program for GO&UP Express, and Rapid Transit projects. To lead the formulation and implementation of enterprise-wide contractual safety assurance requirements across new and existing railway and transit initiatives, encompassing operations, maintenance, and critical interfaces with systems engineering, human factors, and operational readiness.
What will I be doing?
- Directs the development and execution of the enterprise-wide system safety assurance requirements and contracts program for rail expansion, rapid transit, and subway projects, ensuring alignment with corporate vision and strategic objectives.
- Develops and executes medium- to long-term safety assurance and commercial strategies that enable the successful delivery of capital programs.
- Leads the integration and standardization of best-in-class system safety assurance requirements across all programs, projects, operations, and maintenance activities.
- Advises the offices of the Chief Operations & Safety Officer, Chief Capital Officers, on critical safety assurance risks tied to contractual requirements within project agreements; identifying mitigations, promoting synergies, sharing lessons learned, and advancing continuous improvement.
- Establishes and leads a cross-functional forum that brings together Legal, Commercial, and Safety & System Assurance leadership to review and align safety-related contract language across all major capital projects
- Serves as the enterprise lead for Safety & System Assurance-related commercial disputes, ensuring technical safety issues are accurately represented in legal and financial settlements.
- Represents Safety & System Assurance at the executive-level, influencing enterprise decisions on commercial and operational matters.
- Leads a cross-functional team developing and integrating safety assurance contractual requirements across multiple complex capital program workstreams. Maintains and evolves the enterprise-wide safety assurance contractual requirements database and risk register.
- Liaises with the Ministry of Transportation, regional and municipal transport authorities, and adjacent transit organizations to provide updates, seek direction, and contribute to decision making.
- Leads the advancement of safety system assurance contractual requirements by applying up-to-date procurement strategies, tools, and industry best practices to strengthen the quality and consistency of project agreements.
- Monitors progress to ensure that planning objectives are delivered on time and within budget, and that anticipated business results are achieved.
- Provides strategic leadership to a team of Safety & System Assurance professionals through a number of subordinated managers, ensuring alignment with enterprise safety, commercial, and delivery priorities. Empowers senior managers to lead effectively and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Completion of a post-graduate degree in Safety, Risk, and/or Engineering.
- Demonstrated progressive senior experience in rail systems assurance, safety assurance and engineering delivery.
- Demonstrates expert knowledge of laws and regulations governing railway systems in Canada, with specialized understanding of Ontario’s regulatory landscape.
- Leads the development of system safety assurance contractual requirements for project agreements, commercial letters, variation proposals, and contractual settlements, ensuring alignment with project delivery and risk mitigation strategies.
- Establishes and implements system safety assurance requirement frameworks and processes to guide enterprise-wide safety compliance and performance.
- Contributes strategically to the procurement and delivery of capital project contracts, including commercial correspondence, variation management, dispute resolution, and the drafting of minutes of settlement.
- Applies training in FIDIC Red and Yellow Books to inform international best practices in contract management; familiarity with the International Federation of Consulting Engineers is considered an asset.
- Leverages advanced expertise in international safety standards including EN 50126-1/2/3, EN 50128, and EN 50129 to support system certification and assurance.
- Applies advanced proficiency in the Canadian Method for Risk Evaluation and Assessment (CMREA) or European equivalents to support structured rail safety risk analysis.
- Communicates with influence, using strong interpersonal, written, verbal, and presentation skills to promote a safety culture and lead the development of safety system components (e.g., programs, policies, procedures, tools, training).
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 [email protected].
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.
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