Vice President, Civil Infrastructure

Metrolinx

3d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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. The Engineering & Safety division is seeking a Vice President, Civil Infrastructure. This is the senior executive accountable for the safety, condition, and long-term performance of all civil assets across the network, including bridges, stations, tunnels, and structural systems. As the Civil Asset Owner, you provide engineering governance and strategic oversight to ensure infrastructure remains safe, resilient, and compliant. You lead asset condition assessment programs, establish technical standards, and develop risk-based capital investment strategies that protect and strengthen the system over time. This role requires deep civil engineering expertise, strong bridge and structural asset management capability, and the ability to operate confidently at the executive level. This role is an in office position (5 days per week) based at our 20 Bay Street 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.

Requirements

Completion of a degree in Engineering from an accredited University or a related discipline.
Minimum fifteen (15) years’ experience in progressively senior Civil engineering leadership roles; experience in the transportation industry and public sector in Canada an asset
Professional Engineering (P.Eng.) qualification or the ability to attain this status is required
In-depth knowledge of Railway legislation and transport Canada Rules and Regulations, as well as applicable International legislation, regulations, guidelines and standards.
Proven ability to develop and ensure the implementation of the strategic, business and operational plans necessary to ensure sound strategies, plans and initiatives.
Extensive knowledge of financial theories, principles and practices, procurement, fiscal planning, modern controllership frameworks and the overall business planning, estimates, expenditure and allocations plan processes.

Nice To Haves

MBA and/or a Project Management Professional (PMP) accreditation is considered an asset.
Cross-functional expertise and leadership skills within Capital Planning, Operations and Maintenance domains an asset.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and technical expertise to ensure the mandate of ESD – Civil Infrastructure portfolio groups and project-based activities are prioritized, aligned and delivered to meet project milestones, program and organizational goals and objectives.
Accountable for ensuring the development and implementation of civil infrastructure standards and civil infrastructure assurance across Capital Projects and Operations.
Oversee infrastructure rating systems and condition assessment programs.
Lead bridge condition management and structural risk mitigation.
Ensure lifecycle optimization of bridges, stations, tunnels, HVAC, and building systems.
Lead a technical engineering design and delivery team to establish and maintain civil infrastructure engineering standards to support successful delivery of transit infrastructure.
Provide leadership to the definition and control of technical and functional interfaces between independent systems (e.g. stations, bridges, etc.) and related maintenance and operation.
Serve as final approval authority for new civil infrastructure.
Accountable for technical assurance of all new civil infrastructure assets across multiple project delivery partners.
Provide oversight and direction to the establishment of service and quality standards consistent with Metrolinx’s strategic position, and industry standards, to ensure a strategy for long term sustainability of assets and quality processes for inspection and scheduled maintenance.
Direct the development of a strategic operating model and criteria to monitor the quality and the performance of both Metrolinx and/or 3rd party assets.
Provides oversight to projects and operations’ milestones to ensure established timelines, quality control objectives/standards, and budget/cost objectives are achieved/exceeded.
Responsible for development of long-tern Asset Management Plans optimizing asset lifecycle investment and ensuring timely capital investment to minimize operational and safety risk.
Financial accountability of civil infrastructure budget ensuring activities are performed within budget parameters and explains off-plan overages and exceptions.
Creates a working environment that is aligned with the organization’s desire to be “an employer of choice”.