Director, Electrification & Plant

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 20 Bay 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 offer flexibility in start and end times while maintaining core business hours for shared availability across the team.

In the Engineering & Safety Division (ESD), we play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and cost-effective service of our transit system as the Metrolinx engineering technical authority and owner of more than $20 billion in assets and growing to $60 billion by 2030.

To promote an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment, we provide the following:

Parental Leave Top-Up

Lactation Accommodation

Competitive Pension Plan

Annual Learning Reimbursement

Mentorship Program

Recognition of Prior Public Sector Service for Vacation Entitlements

Free GO Network Travel

Our ESD Electrification & Fleet Team is seeking a Director, Electrification and Plant to lead the strategy, standards, and compliance framework for critical transit assets across their entire lifecycle. This role ensures the Engineering and Asset Management teams play an active role in the electrification of Light Rail, Subways and Heavy Rail transit fleets. Furthermore, this person provides similar support for new and emerging Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) charging networks, ensuring safe, reliable, and sustainable operations for the Metrolinx Bus Fleet.

What Team(s) will I be leading?

Lead the Electrification & Plant (ELTP) Engineering team responsible for providing Engineering Assurance Services, as related to the Electrification and Plant Interfaces for the Heavy Rail, Light Rapid Transit, Subway and Bus transit fleets

Provide leadership and direction to the ELTP Asset Management team responsible for the emerging ELTP asset portfolio, including assets directly managed by ELTP, assets supported by ELTP, interface assets, third-party managed assets, and future handover assets

Build and expand the ELTP Engineering team responsible for high voltage charging systems and/or hydrogen storage systems, and associated ancillary systems, as related to the transition to an Electric and/or Hydrogen Bus fleet

What will I be doing?

Responsible for and owns the asset class (or) systemwide function development and acceptance of engineering, design, maintenance, condition, and asset management standards and assures compliance to standards throughout the asset lifecycle.

Owns, oversees and directs reviews for the acceptance or rejection, as appropriate of proposed deviations and non-compliances with respect to relevant technical and engineering standards, including process compliance verification of the requisite safety case analysis from the requester, and leads (or) supports deviations to systems engineering and asset management standards.

Leads in collaboration with the system engineering assurance team, agency divisions, commercial and delivery teams, external stakeholders and regulators to ensure the safety, design and integration of new and enhanced assets into the asset base and the implementation of new systems and development and/or assurance oversight of asset class integration of the asset class with the wider Metrolinx asset base for rail transit infrastructure and systems (or) fleet.

Builds collaborative relationships with senior organizational leadership and gains trust with stakeholders (. customers, other business units, tenants, local transit) to foster good relations, gain support, develop resources, drive results, realize…