Lead Track Engineer and Team Leader

Track Designer – Team Leader

We’re looking for a Senior Track Designer – Team Leader to join our growing Canadian Operations. This position will be based in our Vancouver, Edmonton, or Calgary office.   This role combines hands-on track design and project delivery with day-to-day leadership of our Track Design team.

To be successful in this role, you will you will have a minimum of 15 years of experience, bring strong experience in rail and transit track design and design coordination, with demonstrated experience supporting multidisciplinary transportation infrastructure projects.

You will be responsible for leading rail and transit engineering assignments, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, mentoring junior staff, and supporting project delivery across Western Canada. You will work closely with regional technical leaders, project managers, designers, and multidisciplinary teams across Western Canada, and GHD’s global network. In an ever-changing world, it requires creativity and innovation to stay ahead.

Working with an energetic and high-performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:

• Leading and supporting track design assignments for heavy rail, commuter rail, freight rail and transit infrastructure projects.

• Preparing and coordinating track designs from concept development through detailed design and construction.

• Developing and reviewing horizontal and vertical track alignments, track plans, profiles, cross-sections, turnouts, crossovers and other track infrastructure.

• Providing day-to-day leadership, coordination and support to members of the Track Design team.

• Mentoring and developing designers and engineers through coaching, technical guidance and knowledge sharing.

• Working with Delivery Managers and Project Managers to plan and balance workload, priorities and resources across the Track Design team.

• Identifying emerging resource, schedule, capability and delivery risks and escalating them to the appropriate project or delivery leadership.

• Leading or supporting design coordination and resolving track interfaces with civil, structural, drainage, geotechnical, stations, roadway, utilities and rail systems disciplines.

• Supporting technical reviews and quality control activities to deliver coordinated track designs that meet project requirements and applicable client and industry standards.

• Reviewing design drawings, calculations, technical memoranda, specifications and other design deliverables.

• Supporting Project Managers with scope development, work planning, scheduling, resource forecasting and project delivery.

• Supporting workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding and development of Track Design team members.

• Contributing to continuous improvement of track design tools, workflows and technical capability.

• Supporting proposals, project pursuits, work planning and development of project scopes and fee estimates.

• Building effective working relationships with clients, transportation agencies, contractors, subconsultants and internal project teams.

• Maintaining an active role in project delivery while balancing team leadership responsibilities

What you will bring to the team

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering.

• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in BC or Alberta.

• Approximately 15+ years of relevant rail and transit design experience, with demonstrated experience delivering track design assignments.

• Strong knowledge of track geometry and track design for heavy rail, commuter rail, freight rail or transit infrastructure.

• Experience coordinating track design with other engineering disciplines.

• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor and develop technical staff.

• Experience planning and coordinating the work of designers and engineers across multiple project assignments.

• Strong understanding of applicable track design standards and client requirements, including standards used by organizations such as Metrolinx, CN, CPKC and AREMA, as applicable to project assignments.

• Strong design review and quality management skills.

• Strong communication, collaboration and organizational skills, with the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary project teams.

• Experience supporting project planning, resource forecasting, schedules and delivery priorities.

• Proficiency with relevant rail and civil design platforms such as Bentley OpenRail Designer, OpenRoads Designer, MicroStation and/or AutoCAD Civil 3D.

• Familiarity with collaborative design environments such as ProjectWise or Autodesk Construction Cloud.

• Experience delivering projects for rail and transit agencies in Ontario and across Canada is an asset.