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Job Description
AECOM Transit & Rail is seeking a Deputy Director, Western Canada Rail to drive performance of our experienced team. Featuring a flexible work arrangement and a wealth of growth opportunities, you’ll be a key part of Canada’s largest rail consulting team, supporting both transit and freight rail clients.
To be successful in this management-focused role, you will have the following characteristics:
+ Well-rounded experience including successfully delivering safety, quality, budget, and schedule in both management and technical roles.
+ Ability to balance upwards of 75 ongoing projects and tasks with competing priorities.
+ Experience contributing to multidisciplinary transit and rail design and construction projects.
+ Very strong understanding of project management principles and procedures.
+ Experience as a people manager, including recruitment, hiring, retention, and continuous improvement initiatives.
+ Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, particularly working with remotely distributed teams.
+ Embrace change, tackle new or unusual challenges, and find solutions through innovation.
Daily tasks may include:
+ Opportunity & Project Management
+ Awareness of all active projects within the region and their general status.
+ Proactively identify potential problems, and step in to take corrective actions when facing performance issues, such as poor utilization, margin erosion, schedule delays, client claims, and so forth.
+ Summarize projects and opportunities across the region for reporting and planning purposes.
+ Manage Salesforce entries and pipeline forecasts.
+ Develop, simplify and standardize management processes and find other workflow efficiencies.
+ Assist with client account management, including contract enforcement, rate table maintenance, and similar tasks.
+ Promote work sharing within the region. Develop connections with other regions and Business Lines for work sharing opportunities.
+ Lead more complex pursuits requiring RFPA/Risk Committee submissions and contract negotiations.
+ Guide team members on best practices and strategically navigating AECOM’s systems & processes.
+ Have an in-depth understanding of AECOM’s Project Delivery System, Approval Matrix, Subcontracting/Coupa, Workbench, ABC/APIC Online, DocuSign CLM, Salesforce CRM.
+ Have familiarity with client systems, such as Ariba, CN Supplier Portal, Fieldglass.
+ People Management
+ In general, be the supervisor for First-Level Supervisors and/or Senior Specialists.
+ Set positive examples, and ensure completion of safety and other training.
+ Direct the Performance & Rewards process.
+ Balance workload and utilization across the region.
+ Identify short-term and long-term staffing needs. Proactively suggest headcount increase/reduction measures.
+ Technical
+ Ensure compliance with QC/QA procedures and conduct random project documentation audits.
+ Contribute to technical deliverables commensurate with experience and background.
+ Visit client offices and field locations for assessing opportunities, and develop high-level technical delivery strategies.
This position may be based out Burnaby, Calgary, Edmonton, or Winnipeg. Time spent in the office and field may be required, however AECOM embraces work from home arrangements when it works for you, our company, and our clients.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
+ Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent.
+ 6 Years of Transit & Rail Consulting & Management Experience.
Preferred Qualifications
+ 10+ years Transit & Rail experience.
+ MBA
+ P.Eng.
+ PMP
+ Strong familiarity with Canadian client standards and processes (AREMA, CN, CPKC, BNSF, Translink, Calgary Transit, Edmonton Transit, Metrolinx, etc.).
+ Extensive professional network in the transit & rail industry.
Additional Information
Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $100,000.00 - $120,000.00.
About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: J10108693
Business Line: Transportation
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Canada
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
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