Project Manager, Lakeshore West Construction Management

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 130 Adelaide St W 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.

Our Capital Projects Group 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 Stations Lakeshores Construction Management Office is seeking to hire a Project Manager to support the delivery of transit facilities across the Stations Lakeshores portfolio. The Project Manager is responsible for assisting in the work plan review cycle, providing reports to senior management on work status, track access, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure the project is delivered on time, on budget and in a safe and standardized manner.

• Collaborate on multiple complex projects from planning stages through construction, commissioning, and closeout, ensuring alignment with corporate commitments related to schedule, quality, risk, safety, stakeholder management, and budget performance.
• Knowledge of procurement processes, particularly Design-Build, Progressive Design-Build, Joint Venture, and Construction Manager at Risk delivery models, would be an asset to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, cost optimization, effective budget management, and efficient project execution.
• Identify the need for concept, preliminary, or detailed design alternatives, constructability reviews, and value engineering opportunities to improve project outcomes and mitigate project risks.
• Facilitate subject matter expert review and evaluation of consultant studies, reports, design proposals, specifications, and contract documents to ensure compliance with corporate policies, procedures, standards, and applicable industry guidelines and best practices.
• Collaborate and liaise with consultants, contractors, contract administrators, internal stakeholders, municipal authorities, government agencies, railway partners, utility companies, and other external stakeholders regarding project agreements, timelines, deliverables, changes, and issues impacting project progress, quality, cost, safety, and operational requirements.
• Coordination and liaison with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including Capital Projects teams, Operations, Maintenance, third-party stakeholders, municipal partners, and railway operators.
• Provide ownership and oversight of the Construction Management Team work plan review process, ensuring construction activities are accurately planned, coordinated, and aligned with project schedules, railway access requirements, operational constraints, and corporate objectives.
• Validate required permits, approvals, and project documentation to ensure construction activities are authorized, compliant, and ready for execution in accordance with project requirements, regulatory obligations, and internal governance processes.
• Verify Rail Corridor access requirements by reviewing approved access windows, planned work activities, productivity metrics, resource utilization, and corridor occupancy to optimize construction execution and minimize operational impacts.
• Provide leadership and oversight of field construction activities, including regular site inspections, site reports, contractor coordination meetings, stakeholder meetings, safety walks, audits, and progress reviews.
• Collaborate with Project Delivery teams and internal stakeholders on rail corridor access planning, construction methodology reviews, scheduling, risk management, constructability, assurance activities, and execution planning to support successful project delivery.
• Monitor construction…