TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER Full-time Job

Are you a licenced Civil Engineer with experience in traffic engineering, road safety, design and construction of road/pavement, pedestrian and cycling facilities? If so, consider this exciting opportunity with Transportation Services!
 

In the Transit Infrastructure Projects unit, reporting to a Senior Engineer or a Senior Project Manager, you will work with multi-disciplinary teams to advance the City’s interests in the planning, design, and construction of Metrolinx transit projects, including, Eglinton Crosstown LRT, Eglinton Crosstown West Extension, Yonge North Subway Extension, and Ontario Line.

 

Join us and contribute to the development of vital transportation infrastructure that will shape the future of the City.

Major Responsibilities: 

 

Specific responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Conduct engineering review, and provide comments on preliminary and detailed designs of transportation infrastructure to ensure its compliance with the relevant Transportation Association of Canada (TAC), provincial, and municipal design standards.
• Review and contribute to transportation studies, including multi-modal traffic studies, transit planning studies, environmental assessments, technical memorandums, options assessments, contract specifications, environmental site assessments, etc. for the major transit projects.
• Review construction staging and road closure proposals, traffic management, and construction management plans, and work with Metrolinx and their contractors to maintain safe pedestrian and traffic movements in the construction zones.
• Review traffic signal timing cards for signal timing modifications, and coordinate installation of new traffic signals, when required.
• Perform site visits for preliminary assessments, safety reviews and inspections of major transit projects.
• Assess the feasibility of proposals to either permanently close public highways and lanes or acquire private lands for designating public highways and lanes as part of the major transit projects.
• Directs assigned multi-disciplinary projects, and coordinates input from a variety of City staff, ensuring effective teamwork and communication, high standards of work quality and organizational performance and continuous learning.
• Liaises with and coordinates input, and establishes, maintains and fosters linkages with other sections, divisions and stakeholders such as Metrolinx and the Toronto Transit Commission in the design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and maintenance of major transit projects.
• Prepares and delivers papers, reports, manuals, presentations, speeches, and training materials, and represents the Transportation Division at meetings with Community Councils, standing committees, elected officials, other sections, divisions and agencies, community and special interest groups, the media, citizens, and consultants.
• Responds to public complaints and inquiries, in a verbal or written manner, on behalf of senior management.
• Develops leading-edge initiatives, and finds pragmatic solutions to transportation problems which satisfy the City's economic, environmental, and social challenges
• Assumes responsibility for carrying out varied engineering assignments within the field of civil engineering.
• Maintains an awareness of developments and advancements in relevant fields to retain technical competency and to provide state-of-the-art advice.
• Ensures work is undertaken in a manner that complies with and supports City compliance with the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), other relevant codes and regulations and City policies.
• Performs other responsibilities, as assigned.

 

Key Qualifications:

 

1. Must be registered as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).
2. University degree in Civil Engineering or in a discipline pertinent to the job function, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
3. Extensive experience in any of the following fields: design and construction of road/pavement, pedestrian and cycling facilities, traffic engineering, road safety, and/or municipal construction projects.
4. Experience in delivering complex transportation engineering projects with minimal direction while balancing stakeholder interests.
5. Ability to effectively represent the Division, maintain relations and work with community and special interest groups, the public, elected officials, internal and external clients and consultants.
6. Ability to participate in and operate as a fully accountable member of a multi-disciplinary work team.
7. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
8. Highly developed communication, conflict resolution and interpersonal skills to communicate with all levels of the organization, including elected officials and the public.
9. Must be flexible, innovative and adaptable to work in a fast-paced and deadline-driven work environment. 
10. Knowledge in applying and interpreting related legislation and technical documents including the Occupational Health and Safety Act, the Highway Traffic Act, traffic-related by-laws/code, the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Ontario Traffic Manual, Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) geometric design guide for Canadian Roads, Highway Capacity Manual, and other applicable engineering guidelines.

Toronto, the capital of the province of Ontario, is a major Canadian city along Lake Ontarios northwestern shore. It's a dynamic metropolis with a core of soaring skyscrapers, all dwarfed by the iconic, free-standing CN Tower. Toronto also has many green spaces, from the orderly oval of Queens Park to 400-acre High Park and its trails, sports facilities and zoo.