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About the Role

This position offers the opportunity to strengthen the competence, compliance, and deployment readiness of signalling teams on a major rail infrastructure programme. The successful candidate will ensure that personnel working on signalling systems are trained, assessed, authorized, and supported in line with approved methods, product requirements, and safety-critical standards. The Competency Specialist is accountable for establishing, administering, and sustaining the competence management framework for signalling personnel assigned to the OnCorr Signalling project.

Responsibilities

Own and sustain the signalling competence management process across design support, installation, integration, testing, commissioning, handover, maintenance-readiness, and technical support activities.
Translate signalling role requirements into clear competence profiles covering technical knowledge, product training, practical experience, safety-critical duties, and authorization criteria.
Coordinate with signalling discipline leads to identify competent assessors and mentors for engineering, installation, testing, commissioning, configuration, and maintenance-related roles.
Maintain accurate and auditable records for signalling qualifications, product certifications, assessments, practical evidence, mentoring, licences, and role-based authorizations.
Monitor workforce capability and deployment readiness by signalling discipline, technology, product, project phase, work package, and safety-critical role.
Identify expired, incomplete, or upcoming signalling qualifications and authorizations, and coordinate training, supervised practice, reassessment, renewal, or corrective action before deployment.
Support competence assurance for personnel working on interlocking, train control, wayside equipment, signalling power and cabling, communications interfaces, testing tools, and associated subsystems within the approved project scope.
Verify that competence evidence supports assigned duties and that work is performed within each person’s approved signalling scope and authorization limits.
Act as the signalling competence focal point for internal and external audits, assurance reviews, project gates, evidence requests, and corrective or preventive actions.
Report competence coverage, authorization status, assessor capacity, training progress, discipline-specific gaps, and delivery risks to signalling and project leadership.
Drive continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned, audit findings, technical incidents, product changes, standards updates, and project feedback into signalling training, assessment, authorization, and governance processes.

Requirements

Relevant technical education or equivalent professional experience in railway signalling, train control, rail systems, electrical or systems engineering, or another safety-critical technical discipline.
5+ years of experience in similar positions.
Practical experience in a signalling project environment involving engineering, installation, testing, commissioning, integration, maintenance, or technical support.
Demonstrated experience coordinating or administering competence management, technical training, mentoring, assessment, certification, licensing, or authorization processes.
Understanding of signalling lifecycle activities, discipline interfaces, configuration control, technical assurance, and the competence requirements associated with safety-critical work.
Working knowledge of competence assessment principles, evidence requirements, authorization controls, EHS expectations, and applicable rail industry or project standards.
Ability to maintain reliable records, monitor compliance and expiry status, analyse competence gaps, and support audit and project-gate readiness.
Ability to review procedures, identify non-compliance or process weaknesses, and coordinate corrective and preventive actions with signalling stakeholders.
Ability to develop and track signalling training, mentoring, assessment, and authorization plans against project resource and deployment needs.
Experience leading or coordinating cross-functional activities in a technical, project, construction, testing, commissioning, or operational environment.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; experience with learning, competence, document, or data-management systems is advantageous.
Ability to interpret signalling role profiles, technical procedures, training matrices, assessment criteria, product requirements, and authorization evidence.
Clear written and verbal communication skills for reports, competence dashboards, audit responses, briefings, and stakeholder updates.
Ability to engage credibly with signalling engineers, installers, testers, commissioners, assessors, mentors, managers, auditors, and external stakeholders.
Strong organization, planning, prioritization, data-quality, and follow-through skills, with close attention to safety-critical detail.
Sound judgement and analytical ability to identify competence risks, assess evidence sufficiency, and escalate issues affecting signalling deployment.
Collaborative, accountable, and proactive working style with the ability to manage multiple disciplines, locations, and project priorities.
Fluent professional English and the ability to explain technical and compliance requirements in a practical, accessible manner.
Valid driving licence and willingness to work at project offices, depots, test facilities, and signalling installation or commissioning sites as required.

Skills

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint
Learning management systems
Competence management systems
Document management systems
Data management systems
Signalling role profiles interpretation
Technical procedures interpretation
Training matrices interpretation
Assessment criteria interpretation
Product requirements interpretation
Authorization evidence interpretation
Written communication
Verbal communication
Reporting
Competence dashboards creation
Audit response preparation
Briefing delivery
Stakeholder updates
Credible engagement with signalling professionals
Organization
Planning
Prioritization
Data quality
Follow-through
Attention to safety-critical detail
Judgement
Analytical ability
Risk identification
Evidence assessment
Issue escalation
Collaboration
Accountability
Proactive working style
Managing multiple disciplines
Managing multiple locations
Managing multiple project priorities
Fluent professional English
Explaining technical requirements
Explaining compliance requirements

Location

Project offices
Depots
Test facilities
Signalling installation sites
Signalling commissioning sites

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

Relevant technical education
Equivalent professional experience

Salary/Compensations

$65,000 – $80,000 CAD per year

Benefits

Eligibility for an annual performance bonus
Stability
Challenges
Long-term career
Growth and development opportunities
Work with new security standards for rail signalling
Collaboration with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
Contribution to innovative projects
Flexible and inclusive working environment
Career steering across functions and countries
Investment in development through award-winning learning programs
Progress towards senior leadership or technical expert roles
Fair and dynamic reward package
Comprehensive and competitive social coverage (life, medical, pension)

About the Company

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
The rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career.
You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud.

Equal Opportunity

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.
If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please email us at humanresources.accessibility@alstomgroup.com while referring to the job requisition number, job title and location you applied to.