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WSP Canada

Senior Project Engineer, Rail and Transit

Posted 5 days ago

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What if you could redefine what's possible?

What if you could redefine what's possible? With us, you can. You want Purpose. Growth. Opportunity. People who get it.
We are the home of ambitious, passionate, and innovative world shapers.
With an unmatched breadth and depth of engineering, advisory and science-based expertise, our global minds unite to power local solutions.
We are pathfinders and impact makers.
We are Visioneers. We are WSP.

The Opportunity

This is your chance to shape tomorrow's transit and infrastructure systems right here in the GTA. As a Senior Project Engineer, you'll support one of our major clients by coordinating multidisciplinary design teams, guiding complex construction initiatives, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-impact capital projects.

You'll work in a hybrid environment, spending at least two days per week embedded with our client to drive collaboration, problem-solving, and delivery excellence.

Your Impact
  • Develop project concepts and scope of work, aligning with stakeholder requirements.
  • Define quality standards, budget parameters, schedule expectations, and scope breakdowns.
  • Prepare scope and construction review sign-off documents and secure stakeholder approvals of scope and construction review design and contract specification.
  • Manage design progress from preliminary through detailed phases and conduct design review meetings including constructability and maintainability.
  • Approve engineering work plans and ensure compliance with scope, schedule, and budget.
  • Coordinate design compliance with project scope, quality, budget, and schedule by integrating constructability and maintainability requirements across all departments.
  • Initiate alternative analyses, engineering studies, and life cycle cost assessments to support cost-effective design and construction solutions.
  • Oversee preparation of construction contract documents.
  • Supervise technical specification development and provide ongoing engineering support during construction.
  • Manage contract changes and ensure technical compliance and lead close-out documentation review and as-built coordination.
  • Prepare Project Summary Sheets and Justification Reports and coordinate budgeting with Capital Programming and Estimating teams.
  • Prepare project administration documents: work plans, change orders, procurement requests, status reports.

The Skills That Set You Apart
  • You hold a Professional Engineering license (PEO) or are licensed through the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA).
  • You bring 7+ years of experience delivering engineering and construction projects within a transit operating environment.
  • You have hands-on experience supporting or leading heavy construction or large, multidisciplinary capital programs.
  • You understand the Construction Act, contracting processes, inspection practices, and engineering principles that drive successful delivery.
  • You're proficient in managing complex stakeholder groups and navigating technical, operational, and schedule-driven requirements.
  • You are comfortable preparing and reviewing technical contract documents, scopes, specifications, and engineering reports.
  • You are skilled with Microsoft Office and familiar with tools commonly used in engineering project administration.

Why Choose WSP?

We exist to shape communities to advance humanity.
  • Proudly Canadian - we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.
  • A global community of brilliant minds - your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.
  • Limitless opportunities start here. We help you tailor your role to match your ambition-because your growth drives ours.
  • Flexible work, real balance - we encourage you to prioritize what matters most.

Compensation:
AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $114,600 - $151,800
MB & ON: $104,500 - $143,900
NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $103,500 - $137,400

Disclosure:
The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes

Make Your Mark with WSP

If you're driven by purpose and impact, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and shape the future of transit infrastructure with us.
WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

  • We value our people and our reputation
  • We are locally dedicated with international scale
  • We are future focused and challenge the status quo
  • We foster collaboration in everything we do
  • We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.

About WSP Canada

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international expertise. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, landscape architects and urban designers, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Buildings, Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment, Geomatics, Energy, Resources, and Industrial sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With over 8,000 talented people across Canada, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for generations to come.

Industry

Engineering

Company Size

5001-10,000 employees

Application closing date is 2026-04-03

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