Our client, an organization whose mission is to manage, operate, and maintain various transportation infrastructures, with activities spanning engineering, construction, and maintenance operations, is currently seeking an Engineer – Diagnostics and Planning to continue improving the quality and efficiency of its services.

Nature of position

Reporting to the Manager, Diagnostics and Planning, you will be responsible for implementing asset management practices through inspection programs, structural capacity analysis, diagnostics, master planning, and project planning related to the physical asset maintenance and functionality investment program. You will ensure proper documentation of upcoming investments by preparing project sheets, cost estimates, and ten-year project planning. Through collaboration and complementary work among teams, you will ensure decision traceability within the asset management framework, identify needs and issues, and facilitate information sharing and quality. You will participate in the execution of professional services contracts and act as an owner's representative by maintaining collaborative and trust-based relationships with consultants to ensure the quality and compliance of deliverables. You will also actively contribute to budget management, cost control, schedule monitoring, as well as the analysis and processing of claims and change orders. You will play a key role in developing and maintaining an innovative and recognized structural capacity analysis framework, based on criteria and processes applied to load capacity studies and the approval of permits carried out by consultants. Leveraging your expertise, you will be able to monitor, verify, and challenge the technical quality of consultants' deliverables, translate technical results and identified risks, and collaborate with other engineers within the department to support corporate decision-making regarding asset investment choices. The goal is to achieve a balanced approach between service levels, costs, and risks. In alignment with departmental orientations, you will develop, communicate, and maintain a global vision for structural capacity evaluation and special permit issuance. Lastly, you will play an active role in supporting and developing internal resources in the application of processes.

• Maintain a strong knowledge of study sites through field visits, asset surveys, and review of available documentation;
• Define scope and estimate budgets for annual and ten-year asset management deliverables in coordination with major works project planning;
• Manage and deliver professional services contracts in asset management in collaboration with internal stakeholders, the Senior Coordinator, and the Structure Owner Engineer (SOE);
• Define professional services, deliverables, and standards, and prepare terms of reference for asset management contracts;
• Manage recommendations in collaboration with internal services;
• Ensure deliverable quality, analyze reports, and recommend actions;
• Facilitate corporate decision-making to achieve a balanced approach between service levels, costs, and risks;
• Monitor deliverable execution, including traffic maintenance requirements, budget control, technical quality, and schedule tracking;
• Prepare authorizations for additional work and follow up on consultant payments;
• Maintain a strong understanding of structures through field visits and review of available documentation;
• Consolidate investment needs by project based on scope, location, and required intervention timelines;
• Develop and update asset-related risk management analyses;
• Develop, prepare, and update planned project sheets, including construction and professional services cost estimates;
• Prepare and facilitate project planning workshops involving various internal teams;
• Prepare and maintain the overall ten-year planning schedule;
• Monitor the progress of ongoing projects and coordinate upcoming projects;
• Ensure communication and coordination of project planning with partners and organizational stakeholders;
• Participate in pre-project launch activities in collaboration with Project teams;
• Provide technical expertise in the structural capacity evaluation of engineering structures as part of asset management;
• Strengthen the process for programming and initiating load capacity studies and promote alignment among stakeholders around organizational criteria, standards, and structure-specific modeling strategies;
• Define professional services, deliverables, and standards, and prepare terms of reference for professional services contracts related to structural capacity evaluation;
• Monitor and control deliverable execution, including load capacity analyses, technical oversight, budget management, and schedule tracking;
• Perform technical reviews of load capacity studies and special permit analysis methodologies prepared by consultants;
• Ensure integration of asset information into the organization's information systems;
• Collaborate in updating and continuously improving requirements and standards related to inventory updates, inspections, load capacity studies, and diagnostics;
• Create opportunities to enable team members to acquire new skills;
• Participate, as needed, in committees or discussion groups related to the field of expertise;
• Facilitate corporate decision-making by considering asset life cycles, asset information, and balancing service levels, costs, and risks;
• Exercise professional leadership on complex files with significant organizational impact.

Required qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering with a minimum of eight (8) years of experience in bridge structures, including design and load capacity evaluation;
• Member in good standing of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ);
• Proven experience in load capacity assessment, bridge design, and rehabilitation;
• Strong knowledge of Canadian bridge and civil structure evaluation, design, and construction codes and standards;
• Knowledge of railway standards such as AREMA (American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association);
• Experience in seismic reinforcement analysis or design;
• Completion of MTMD training related to bridge inspection, evaluation, maintenance, and design manuals;
• Practical knowledge of MS Project, Excel, Access, Word, and Outlook;
• Familiarity with common structural design and analysis software;
• Solid understanding of engineering project delivery, construction activities, and traffic coordination issues;
• Knowledge of infrastructure durability and life-cycle management principles;
• Familiarity with construction safety standards and inspection practices;
• Proficiency in French (spoken and written) and very good command of English (spoken and written).

Salary and condition

Salary and conditions according to the collective agreement.

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