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About the Role

This senior role is for an experienced transportation professional who can lead complex assignments, manage key client relationships, provide technical oversight, mentor staff, and support growth across GFT's Ontario transportation portfolio. The role aims to strengthen senior delivery capacity, improve technical and quality oversight, support strategic pursuits, and develop future transportation leaders within the Toronto team.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage complex transportation engineering assignments for provincial, municipal, regional, and transit-sector clients.
Serve as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Technical Lead, Senior Reviewer, or QA/QC Lead on transportation infrastructure projects.
Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, resourcing, deliverables, and client communications.
Provide senior technical review and direction for transportation engineering deliverables, studies, reports, design submissions, and multidisciplinary work products.
Lead or support projects involving highways, roadways, traffic operations, municipal roads, corridor studies, safety reviews, staging, detours, and transportation operations.
Coordinate effectively with roadway, drainage, structural, environmental, utility, transit, construction, and property teams.
Maintain and grow trusted relationships with public-sector transportation clients across Ontario.
Support strategic pursuits, proposal development, work plans, technical approaches, fee estimates, interviews, and scope negotiations.
Help position GFT for future transportation opportunities through client engagement, market awareness, and strong delivery performance.
Identify follow-on work opportunities and support account planning for key transportation clients.
Represent GFT in client meetings, technical workshops, project reviews, industry events, and pursuit interviews.
Support GFT’s ability to pursue and deliver MTO and other Ontario transportation assignments.
Contribute to MTO-related pursuits, qualifications packages, technical submissions, work plans, and project delivery strategies.
Maintain working knowledge of MTO expectations, Ontario transportation standards, agency coordination requirements, and quality management practices.
Provide senior QA/QC oversight to improve technical consistency, risk management, and delivery quality.
Apply sound engineering judgment to resolve complex technical, contractual, and interdisciplinary issues.
Promote consistent use of checking procedures, lessons learned, design criteria, project controls, and risk mitigation practices.
Support profitable delivery by managing scope, change, budget performance, resource planning, and client expectations.
Mentor junior and intermediate engineers, designers, analysts, and project managers.
Provide coaching on technical delivery, project management, client communication, quality expectations, and professional development.
Support recruitment, onboarding, knowledge transfer, and succession planning within the Transportation Practice.
Help build a stronger, more resilient Toronto team with improved bench depth and clearer growth pathways.

Requirements

Minimum 15 years of progressive transportation engineering experience, including significant Ontario public-sector infrastructure experience.
Minimum 8 years of project management, technical leadership, or senior delivery experience on transportation infrastructure assignments.
Demonstrated experience leading transportation assignments for public-sector clients such as MTO, municipalities, regions, transit agencies, or other infrastructure owners.
Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, client relationships, project budgets, schedules, risk, quality, and technical deliverables.
Ability to support strategic pursuits and contribute to winning work through proposal development, client engagement, technical approaches, and senior/key personnel positioning.
MTO RAQS eligibility is mandatory.
Candidates must be eligible to serve as named/key personnel for relevant MTO RAQS categories.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical reporting, proposal writing, client presentations, and senior review.

Skills

Highway engineering
Traffic engineering
Transportation planning
Municipal roads
Corridor design
Transportation operations
Construction staging
Detour planning
Road safety
Active transportation
Transit-supportive infrastructure
Ontario engineering standards
TAC guidance
OTM books
MTO design standards
Traffic analysis tools
Civil 3D
MicroStation/OpenRoads
Synchro
VISSIM
Aimsun

Location

Toronto, Ontario

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-Time

Experience Level

Principal
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field.
Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, or immediately eligible for licensure with Professional Engineers Ontario.
P.Eng. in Ontario, MCIP/RPP, or an equivalent professional designation, or eligibility to obtain one, is required.
PMP, PTOE, RSP, or equivalent certification would be considered an asset.

Salary/Compensations

$130,000.00 - $163,000.00

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including wellness programs, parental leave, and pet insurance, in addition to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
Competitive paid-time-off (PTO) accrual.
Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
Commitment to professional development, access to internal and external training programs, and support of active participation in professional organizations.
Incentive compensation for eligible positions.

About the Company

GFT is a privately held AEC firm that innovates where transportation, water, power, and buildings converge, referred to as the Infrastructure of Life.
The company measures success by the strength of its relationships and is an employer of choice for over 5,000 industry professionals.
Clients choose GFT for its expertise, nimble approach, creativity, and personal touch.
With over a century of experience, GFT aims to build stronger communities, a healthier planet, and better lives.
GFT's tagline is Ingenuity That Shapes Lives™.

Equal Opportunity

GFT is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veterans’ status or other characteristics protected by law.