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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 Specialized Interfaces Manager is responsible for managing senior-level relationships and strategic interfaces with key institutional stakeholders across the ALTO corridor, including Hydro One, Hydro-Québec, the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, the Québec Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable, and other provincial, governmental, and strategic entities as required.

The role ensures that strategic stakeholder requirements, priorities, approvals, commitments, risks, constraints, and decisions are identified, coordinated, tracked, and escalated in a structured manner.



The role acts as a senior interface between the project and external decision-makers whose input or agreement is critical to project development, design progression, approvals, and delivery planning.

The Specialized Interfaces Manager works closely with project leadership, external interface teams, design teams, to ensure stakeholder engagement is coordinated, consistent, and aligned with project objectives.

The role does not replace the technical utilities leads responsible for utility conflict identification, utility design coordination, and detailed technical resolution. Instead, it manages executive-level alignment, strategic agreements, escalation, commitments, and relationship management with major utility, energy, and government stakeholders.

The role also supports executive briefings, strategic negotiations, issue resolution, and the development of formal engagement plans with provincial ministries and other high-impact stakeholders

Missions/Main Duties

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and Stakeholder Management

- Lead the management of strategic stakeholder relationships across Ontario and Québec.
- Act as the primary project point of contact for designated senior stakeholders
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with senior representatives, executive offices, ministries, agencies, utilities, and public-sector partners.
- Coordinate engagement activities across technical, commercial, legal, communications,



government relations, and executive project teams.
- Ensure stakeholder engagement is proactive, structured, consistent, and aligned with project priorities and approved governance protocols.

Specialized Interface and Commitment Management

- Identify and manage strategic interfaces that may affect project scope, design, approvals, cost, schedule, delivery strategy.
- Develop and maintain stakeholder interface matrices, responsibility registers, action trackers, commitment registers, and decision logs.
- Ensure stakeholder requirements, commitments, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies are captured and communicated to relevant project teams.
- Coordinate with discipline leads to ensure stakeholder inputs are reflected in design, planning, permitting, utilities coordination, environmental approvals, property matters, and delivery strategies.

Specialized Stakeholder Coordination

- Coordinate senior-level engagement with stakeholders.
- Support the resolution of strategic utility and energy issues related to corridor constraints, power supply, relocations, protection, easements, access, agreements, permits, and long-term asset integration.
- Ensure alignment between strategic utility discussions and the work of utilities leads, design teams, environmental teams, and project objectives.
- Track commitments and decisions arising from utility-owner and energy stakeholder discussions and ensure they are translated into actionable project requirements.
- Support negotiations, governance structures, memoranda of understanding, and agreement frameworks required for major utility or energy interfaces.

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📌 Specialized Interfaces Manager (Montreal)
🏢 SYSTRA
📍 Montreal