Director, Development & Controls

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.

Our Capital Projects Group (CPG) workforce is made up of driven and dedicated professionals who care deeply about working together to deliver infrastructure and make a positive impact in our communities.

Join us as we build a knowledgeable and collaborative team that courageously changes how transit projects will be delivered.

Our Lakeshores, Union Plus and Specialized Delivery (LUSD) Development and Controls team is seeking two experienced Directors to join our dynamic team! In this role, you will be responsible for providing strategic and tactical oversight and direction to a team of project control professionals.

You will work closely with Executive Vice Presidents to lead Project Controls for the Lakeshore West and Union Station Rail Corridor (USRC) projects and ensure the successful management of risk, cost, scheduling, quality, change, and document control to keep the project on-time and on-budget.

Your role will ensure that all project data is accurately communicated, enabling informed recommendations and decision making and provide timely advice on trends in project performance from a control’s perspective.

What will I be doing?

• Provide program or portfolio performance analysis, identify issues and challenges, and make recommendation for recovery plans as required.
• Interface with vendor project / program / portfolio controls to ensure contractual project controls requirements are met and adhered to according to Metrolinx expectations and standards.
• Provide leadership or direction in developing strategies for project controls activities across multiple contract delivery models such as Progressive Design-Build, Construction Management @Risk, Alliance, etc.
• Successfully manage the relationships and quality control of the project controls functions including estimating, scheduling, cost control, risk management, document control, change management, quality management and reporting for the project.
• Resolve issues and ensure consistency and data compatibility between the cost control, planning / scheduling, risk, quality and estimating functions and deliverables.
• Effectively communicate concerns, complexities, general project controls information and other considerations to varied audiences including clients, departmental management, engineering, project and construction management, and project teams.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering, project management, or related technical field
• Demonstrated experience with increasing responsibility in the Management of Project Controls on large projects, Transportation project experience and specifically transit experience is a plus.
• Experience is required across all project delivery methods, including Design-Build, Design-Bid-Build, Public Private Partnerships / AFP delivery and Progressive Contracting models (ECP, ECM, PDB, CM@R and Alliance)
• Exceptionally skilled in project controls theory, principles, and practice
• Demonstrable highly skilled experience of reasoned decision-making in high pressure and paced environments.
• Demonstrable highly skilled experience of successfully managing competing objectives of external and internal stakeholders and recognizing materiality.
• Excellent problem solving and influencing skills to establish effective working relationships; negotiate and deal with a variety of contacts both internal and external to the organization;

gain cooperation from individuals not under direct authority and comfort working with minimal supervision.

• Ability to communicate / interface effectively with senior management (., CEO and CCO) and external stakeholders (., Government representatives)
• Ability to engage and influence a wide variety of portfolio, program and project resources including but not limited to Engineers, Project Controls Professionals, Project Managers and External Stakeholders
• Excellent leadership skills to motivate a team, set high standards and clear expectations, manage expectations and outputs.
• Excellent writing skills with experience authoring technical quality management documentation policy, plans, processes, procedures, guides.
• Excellent oral and interpersonal skills with demonstrated success working effectively and collaboratively in a large, integrated, matrix team environment at all levels of an organization.

Don’t Meet Every Requirement? If you’re excited about working with Metrolinx but your past experience doesn’t quite align with every qualification of this posting, we encourage you to apply.

You just might be the right candidate for this or other roles. We are always looking for great talent to join our team. We invite all interested individuals to apply and encourage applications from members of equity-deserving communities, including those who identify as Indigenous, Black, racialized, women, people with disabilities, and people with diverse gender identities, expressions and sexual orientations.

Accommodation : We value the unique skills and experiences each person brings to Metrolinx and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment.

We are committed to the requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act so if you require accommodation during the hiring process, please let our Recruitment team know by contacting us at : 416-202-5601 or email