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Context

Project Overview:

The ALTO project is a major infrastructure initiative in Canadian history, aiming to develop over 1,000 km of new passenger High-Speed Rail (HSR) service connecting major urban centers, including Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City.

The project requires complex coordination and integration across multiple disciplines and stakeholders, including municipalities, utility owners, railway owners, operators, regulatory authorities, provincial ministries, and other public-sector entities.

Role:

The External Interface Requirements Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, developing and managing the requirements and deliverables of the External Interfaces team. The role operates as a work-package management function for the external interfaces’ portfolio, ensuring that stakeholder and interface requirements are translated into clear, actionable deliverables and are progressed to agreed quality, schedule and governance requirements.

Working under the direction of the External Interfaces Director, the Manager provides day-to-day leadership of the team’s delivery plan, maintains visibility of progress and dependencies, coordinates inputs from multiple disciplines,



and ensures that commitments to project leadership and external stakeholders are supported by a controlled and traceable set of deliverables.

Missions/Main Duties

Key Responsibilities:

- Own and manage the External Interfaces team’s integrated deliverables plan, including scope, priorities, milestones, dependencies, owners and status.
- Establish and maintain a structured work-package approach for external interface requirements, deliverables and commitments.
- Coordinate the development, review, quality control and timely issuance of work plans, interface registers, requirements, stakeholder trackers, action logs, briefing materials, reports and other team deliverables.
- Translate the External Interfaces strategy and stakeholder needs into clear deliverables, work packages and actionable requirements for the team.
- Maintain a consolidated view of deliverables across cities, municipalities, ministries, agencies, utilities, third parties and other external organizations, as applicable to the assigned portfolio.
- Track progress against approved plans, identify slippage or emerging risks, and proactively escalation issues requiring direction or decision.
- Coordinate inputs from internal technical, engineering, construction, commercial, planning, communications and project management teams to ensure external interface deliverables are complete and aligned.




- Manage interfaces between individual external stakeholder workstreams to avoid gaps, duplication or conflicting commitments.
- Lead the preparation of management-level dashboards, progress reports, look-aheads and status updates for the External Interfaces Director and project leadership.
- Ensure that stakeholder commitments, actions, decisions and requirements are captured, assigned, monitored and closed in a timely manner.
- Support the External Interfaces Director in preparing for key stakeholder meetings by ensuring that required briefing materials, positions, action lists and supporting information are complete and coordinated.
- Establish appropriate document control, version control, review cycles and approval pathways for External Interfaces deliverables.
- Monitor deliverable quality and readiness, ensuring that outputs are fit for purpose before submission or presentation to project leadership or external stakeholders.
- Maintain forward planning and identify upcoming deliverables, approvals, meetings, submissions and decision points requiring team action.
- Facilitate regular internal coordination meetings focused on progress, priorities, risks, dependencies and upcoming commitments.
- Drive continuous improvement of External Interfaces processes, templates, reporting tools and delivery methods.

Requirements & Interface Management

- Develop and maintain a transparent hierarchy and traceability between external stakeholder requirements, interface commitments, internal actions and resulting deliverables.
- Coordinate the capture, validation, allocation and monitoring of external interface requirements across relevant project teams.
- Ensure requi

📌 External Interfaces Requirements Manager (Montreal)
🏢 SYSTRA
📍 Montreal