
METROLINX Operations Supervisor, West
- Oakville, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Freedom and a healthy work- life balance- Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
- Solve the world's most significant problems - Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
- Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
- Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
- Competitive total rewards package.
- Profit sharing available.
- Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
- Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
- Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
- Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
- Employee perks and discounts.
- Diversity and inclusivity focused.
- Be a leader and promote work quality programs, safety culture and compliance to standards and policies;
- Take Ownership of the track that is assigned to you and be an ambassador of Siemens when interacting with customers, suppliers and employees;
- Provide guidance and support to the maintenance forces assigned to your territory;
- Report and escalate all accidents/incidents and participate in the incident investigation and review processes;
- Act as a role model when it comes to safety, quality of work and efficiency of operations.
- Perform regulatory and mandatory track inspections, set work priorities, dispatch work and ensure corrective actions are taken when required, maintain proper track inspection records and reports and report deteriorating conditions to the Track Supervisor;
- Ensure that all maintenance performed on the assigned territory complies with current standards; confirms that track is safe for authorized train speeds or protected accordingly; organizes and supervises the selective renewal of various track components;
- Support mechanized geometry testing and rail flaw detection testing on the assigned territory;
- Perform quality control inspections related to track work, track programs and other projects;
- In collaboration with the Track Supervisor, manage and analyse all existing track inspections (visual, mechanical and external audits) and undertake all pertinent condition monitoring (rail wear, tie counts, ballast and vegetation surveys etc) to assist in developing specific maintenance program requirements for the territory;
- Assist and interact with customers, federal and provincial authorities or other third parties upon need;
- Undertake Performance Monitoring and Rules Compliance related to track maintenance programs and other work activities;
- Implement Safety Directives and assist in the development of safety programs and goals
- Perform administrative duties in relation to the track inspection process (monitor inspection deadlines, enter inspections into database, analyses all information on the infrastructure condition and prepare work program recommendations);
- Provide on-call support and response on a rotating cycle for incidents and emergencies to support 24/7 operation.
- Minimum of 5 years of related work experience (Track maintainer, assistant track foreman or foreman), including performing regulatory track inspections for the last 2 years;
- Track Inspection Guidelines Qualification (TIG);
- Thorough understanding of track geometry;
- Thorough understanding of track standards, recommended work methods and track safety requirements;
- Thorough understanding of continuous welded rail (CWR);
- Highly organized (time management), flexible, reliable and autonomous;
- Strong leadership and ability to train, supervise coach other employees
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong Background in track inspection and maintenance
- Must be able to read and understand technical drawings and geometry charts
- Ability to walk for extended periods of time (up to 5 miles per day);
- Valid Drivers License and clean driver and CVOR abstracts.