Project Coordinator, Signals & Communications

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 ‘Engineering and Safety Division’ is looking for a Project Coordinator, Signals & Communications for its Signals & Communications Projects – Level Crossings Office.

The Project Coordinator will coordinate, monitor, and control the design and construction of at-grade level crossing railway signal infrastructure and associated assets in a safe, timely, consistent, and cost-effective manner.

In this role you may support the following work: network wide roll out of at-grade crossing enhancements and upgrades, provision of a new GO Transit Train Control System, expansion, and modification for electrification of the existing conventional signalling systems on each of the Rail Corridors, Communication Based Train Control, and Engineering and Asset Management.

• Plans, forecasts, monitors and reports operating and capital project expenditures such as consultant fees and addenda, purchase orders, material supply contracts, Vendor of record contracts, construction contracts, legal agreements, change orders and cost sharing agreements with public or private organizations. May be designated with signing authority for authorized capital projects
• Ensures all internal and external approvals are obtained, and that design and cost dispute resolution and timely completion within established budget and schedule restrictions are adhered to.
• Ensures that each project or project phase is properly invoiced in a timely manner. May be designated with signing authority for authorized capital projects or their components as assigned.
• Administers project cost control by estimating capital costs, lifecycle cost, and maintenance cost, comparing actual cost/date with Baseline and creating, and monitoring and tracking monthly accruals for the project or portion of the project to which they are assigned, in order to forecast future accruals.
• Monitors the delivery of contractor services to ensure compliance with Metrolinx and GO Transit standards and policies, Regulated Railway Standards, Transport Canada regulations and guidelines, AREMA practices, the Railway Safety Act, Building Codes and Standards, and internal user group requirements through all stages of the project or maintenance program. Projects may include the rehabilitation of existing, and the design and construction of new, Railway Corridor infrastructure.
  
  The work may involve the preparation of environmental impact reports, project studies, design proposals, design reports, contract specifications, track schematics, inspection reports, inspection analysis, drawings, and construction administration.
• Contributes to the procurement and contracts process for projects or their component as assigned, including: coordination RFP in-market activities (setting up meetings, developing the agenda and presentation for senior management/evaluation committee), initiate tender process and prepare tender document specifications for construction and consultant contracts for submission to Procurement and Contract Services for tendering, review and respond to RFIs where applicable, participate in the drafting of the Request to Qualify and Quote, participate in evaluating bids and…