JOB INFORMATION
Requisition ID: 13897
Number of Vacancies: 2
Department: Project Management Office (20000008) - Project Controls & Risk (30000217)
Salary Information: 115,570.00 - 144,526.20
Pay Scale Group: 10SA (CAN/S/J/10SA)
Employment Type: Regular
New or Existing Vacancy: Existing
Weekly Hours: 35 Off Days: Saturday and Sunday Shift: Day
Posted On: November 9, 2026
Last Day to Apply: November 22,2026
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), North America's third largest transit system and recognized as one of the top places to work in the GTA has introduced its new 2024-2028 TTC Corporate Plan - Moving Toronto, Connecting Communities which continues the TTC’s legacy of delivering service to hundreds of millions of customers a year. The TTC’s new vision and mission statements also help promote the many environmental, social equity and economic benefits that the TTC provides:
Vision: Moving Toronto towards a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future.
Mission: To serve the needs of transit riders by providing a safe, reliable, efficient, and accessible mass public transit service through a seamless integrated network to create access to opportunity for everyone.
The full Plan can be viewed on ttc.ca.
Career Opportunity
Looking to play a key role in the successful delivery of some of the TTC's largest and most complex capital projects? Join our Project Risk Management team and help shape risk-informed decision-making across a capital portfolio exceeding $30 billion.
As a Risk Assessment Officer, you will provide specialized project risk management expertise supporting critical transit infrastructure, state-of-good-repair programs, station upgrades, major expansion projects, and complex multi-stakeholder initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to influence project outcomes, support senior decision-makers, and contribute to the successful delivery of projects that keep Toronto moving.
What You Will Do
In this role, you will work closely with Senior Project Engineers, Project Managers, Project Directors, Senior Project Managers, Project Controls teams, estimators, operational stakeholders and risk owners, to identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate project risks, that may impact key milestones, interdependencies, budgets, resources, and project objectives throughout the project lifecycle.
The successful incumbent will develop, maintain, and manage project, program, and interface risk registers while supporting project teams in implementing effective mitigation and response strategies.
You will perform qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, including cost and schedule risk analysis, contingency assessments, and integrated risk modelling to support project planning and delivery.
You will facilitate complex risk workshops and stakeholder discussions, helping project teams identify potential threats and opportunities related to cost, schedule, scope, safety, quality, constructability, project interfaces, and operational impacts.
Through your ability to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions, you will support informed decision-making across a diverse portfolio of capital projects.
In addition, you will prepare and deliver risk reports, dashboards, presentations, and analytical assessments for project teams and leadership, providing meaningful insights into emerging risks, trends, and mitigation effectiveness.
You will also support the continuous improvement of risk management processes, tools, standards, and governance practices across the Engineering, Construction & Expansion (ECE) portfolio.
As a trusted risk management advisor, you will promote a proactive risk culture, facilitate stakeholder engagement, provide technical guidance on risk-related matters, and help ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and successfully.
What Skills Do You Bring?
Communicate in a variety of mediums
Assess and manage corporate risk
Identify and minimize risk of Health and Safety issues
Demonstrate knowledge of the industry and / or sector
Apply analytical skills
Use office technology, software and applications
Plan and organize activities / projects to meet section and organizational goals
Understand and apply relevant laws and regulations
What Qualifications Do You Bring?
- University degree in an Engineering related discipline, plus directly related experience in a risk management function in transit, rail, engineering, construction, or major capital program environments
- Strong knowledge of project risk management principles, methodologies, frameworks, and industry best practices.
- Demonstrated experience identifying, assessing, quantifying, monitoring, and mitigating project risks, through structured risk management processes, that would be associated with the project management and construction of large, multi-disciplinary engineering design, and complex capital projects, infrastructure programs, construction projects, transit projects, engineering initiatives, or major public-sector programs.
- Experience facilitating risk workshops, stakeholder meetings, interviews, and collaborative risk assessment sessions involving multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience performing qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, including Monte Carlo simulations, contingency modelling, or schedule risk assessments.
- Strong understanding of project controls functions, including scheduling, estimating, forecasting, cost control, contingency management, and project performance reporting.
- Ability to develop, maintain, and analyze risk registers, risk reports, dashboards, and project risk profiles.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to identify root causes, evaluate impacts, prioritize risks, and focus on issues that could significantly affect project outcomes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, and deliver high-quality work within a fast-paced project environment.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and sound professional judgement.
- Knowledge of construction methods, engineering practices, capital project delivery models, and relevant industry codes, standards, and regulations.
- Commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, diversity, equity, inclusion, and creating positive stakeholder relationships.
- Professional certifications such as PMI-RMP (Risk Management Professional), AACE-PRMP (Project Risk Management Professional), AACE-CCP (Certified Cost Professional), or similar designations.
- Experience using risk management, scheduling, and project controls software such as Primavera P6, Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA Risk, Predict or similar tools.
What We Offer
- Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging, representation and reflects the needs of the communities we serve.
- A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives and making the most of the benefits of working remotely and purpose-driven in-person collaboration opportunities.
- One of the great benefits of being a full-time TTC employee is becoming a member of TTC defined pension plan.
- A comprehensive package that covers health, dental, vision and more.
- Support for professional development opportunities for all colleagues through a broad range of learning programs that include in-person and online training, leadership development, and support for colleagues’ well-being.
Commitment to EDI
The TTC is committed to upholding the values of equity, diversity, anti-racism and inclusion in the delivery of its services and in its workplaces. The TTC is committed to fostering a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities it serves at all levels of the organization and supports an inclusive environment where diverse employee and community perspectives and experiences bring value to the organization. The TTC encourages applications from all applicants, including members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including but not limited to, Indigenous, Black and racialized groups, people with disabilities, women and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The TTC values and supports an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Accommodations for applicants are available upon request throughout the recruitment and selection process, including for those who identify as having a disability. Please contact Talent Management at (416) 393-4570 or Jobs@ttc.ca . Any information received related to an accommodation will be addressed confidentially.
General Prohibition in Hiring Process
The TTC is also committed to a fair hiring process based on job related qualifications, merit, and abilities. You are expected to write your own materials and provide your own qualifications and experiences during the hiring process. The TTC will not tolerate the use of artificial intelligence or external resources in any of your submissions or responses, or the disclosure of interview questions to others. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree to the following:
- The use of any artificial intelligence (AI) tool including, but not limited to, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, to generate or produce any information or materials to be submitted or any response to any assessment question or any interview question, is prohibited.
- All information and materials you submit, including resume, cover letter, and assessment responses, are your own original work without the use of any AI tool
- During any interview, your response to any interview question is your own without the use or assistance of any AI tool or any person.
- You will not disseminate or disclose to any person any interview question.
Should you breach the prohibition of AI tool use, or information dissemination or disclosure, you will be in violation of TTC’s hiring process and TTC may withdraw your application and may prohibit you from participation in the TTC hiring process.
Relatives of TTC Employees
The TTC’s policy prohibits relatives of current TTC employees from being hired, assigned, transferred or promoted into positions, where there is a conflict of interest due to a relationship. Should you be selected for an interview, you will be required to disclose the name, relationship and position of any relative who is a current TTC employee.
We thank all applicants for their interest but advise only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
