The System Specialist/Technical Advisor will be responsible for providing a specialized knowledge and expertise in the area of rail maintenance and systems for the Metrolinx’s Legacy Fleet Maintenance operations.
This individual will collaborate with the management team, customers, suppliers, partners and involved stakeholders.
Reporting to the Reliability Centered Maintenance and Engineering Manager, will be accountable to provide expert knowledge and guidance specific to rail equipment maintenance including systems, and other related maintenance activities.
Responsibilities
- Confirm that all HSE policies, processes and procedures are being complied
- Provide instruction, training, guidance, and technical expertise in the area of rail equipment maintenance for rail locomotives and passenger coaches
- Ability to review reports, research material and other documents for technical accuracy
- Provide consultation on issues that require a higher technical knowledge
- Able to troubleshoot complex technical issue and determine a resolution
- Verify that technical issues have been resolved satisfactorily
- Be the subject matter expert on a wide range of maintenance processes and systems
- Provide guidance to internal and external contacts
- Be the point of contact on all complex technical issues
- Provide feedback on complex product design issues
- Ability to develop KPI’s and present data
- Prepare senior management relating any potential complications
- Work with the team to prepare and create recurrent reports that are requested by operations or higher
- Comply with the company’s applicable policies and procedures as well as human resources’ guidelines
- Ability to build strong rapport with the team and unionized maintenance personnel
- Strong Engineering background
- 5 to 10 years working on rail equipment (or similar products) as a technical subject matter expert. Must have rail locomotive and passenger coach experience and knowledge
- Solid understanding of trouble shooting complex issues
- Extensive background of accomplishing business strategies
- Diploma or degree relating to the field of expertise (ie. Electrical, Mechanical Engineering)
Skills Required
- Strong engineering background
- 5 to 10 years of experience working on rail equipment or similar products as a technical subject matter expert
- Experience with rail locomotives and passenger coaches
- Knowledge of rail equipment maintenance
- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and determine resolutions
- Diploma or degree related to the field of expertise, such as Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
- Ability to build strong rapport with teams and unionized maintenance personnel
- Extensive background in accomplishing business strategies
What We Do
CAD Rail Fleet Services (Ontario) Ltd. is an Ontario-based rail transportation services company and subsidiary of CAD Railway Industries. Established in 2022, it is responsible for maintaining the Metrolinx rail fleet used by GO Transit and UP Express. Its service commitment includes mobilization and transition planning, with safety and customer experience as priorities, and is expected to employ up to 500 Ontarians.
