Operating Sector: Primarily Track Alliance

Position Title: Sr. Safety Advisor

Who We Are

The ONxpress Civils Contractor General Partnership, a partnership between FCC Canada Limited and Aecon Infrastructure Management Inc., is a multidisciplinary Civils Joint Venture (CJV) team with global expertise in delivering innovative solutions for both railway and civil construction projects. Working under Alliance agreements with Metrolinx, the team is helping to modernize railway construction across the GO Transit network.

An Alliance framework, which is relatively new in Canada, is a collaborative partnership between the owner and contractor, who work together with a best-for-project mindset. By streamlining decision making, the Alliance helps ensure that high-quality work is delivered, certified, and transferred in a progressive, transparent, and risk-managed manner.

The Alliance operates with a core focus on safety, efficiency, and sustainability, while fostering strong relationships with stakeholders and rights-holders and contributing positively to local communities as a good neighbour. Through this collaborative approach, the Alliance is helping drive the modernization of key sections of the rail network as part of the GO Expansion Program.

If you're passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a progressive and modern way of working, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Do

- Uses industry trends, incident investigation recommendations, risk assessments and other sources of safety information to create data driven decisions and implements rail safety learning programs to identify hazards, mitigate risk, and align with the ONxpress Safety programs.
- Makes recommendations based on investigations, accidents, and incidents analysis,



to describes root causes and make recommendations for training program improvement or development; tracks and analyses accident and injury trends to identify areas for improvement for training and competence programs and development and recommend intervention or coaching strategies that enhance safety awareness and reduce accidents.
- Audits and coaches the work of external contractors to identify and correct safety behaviors associated with rail maintenance and construction; maintains contractor safety records and provides recommendations on corrective actions to eliminate gaps in rail safety knowledge.
- Coordinates with management to develop rail safety goals, objectives, initiatives, and actions plans to enhance rail safety across ONxpress and its working partners.
- Drives home the value of rail safety through the delivery of rail safety training programs by drawing on deep subject matter expertise and extensive real-world scenarios to help participants understand the hazards of the railway and help prevent injuries or death of workers on site and reduce the likelihood of operational impacts and injuries to workers and the general public accessing the right of way or using rail/road or rail/pedestrian crossings.
- Develops, maintains, and updates rail safety competence frameworks including the outlined expected safety measures,



identify behaviors that would reflect this competence, and update audit packs and coaching toolkits to reflect changes.
- Reviews established policies and procedures for alignment with established guidelines, external railways best practice, and provincial agencies and recommend updates to ONxpress competencies and rail safety programs based on any misalignment, or changes in the industry that would impact rail safety, or how construction is carried out in a rail environment.
- Leads the continual development and enhancement of safety initiatives with applicable internal/external resources.
- Develops and implements internal systems based on industry best practice to monitor compliance with established policies and procedures and the need to go beyond the basics to ensure all workers, passengers, and the public are secure near our railway and construction sites.
- Prepares and presents reports describing how rail safety training is impacting key safety metrics.

What You Bring

- Completion of a degree in a related Canadian Railway Operating Rules discipline – or a combination of education, training and Class 1 railway experience deemed equivalent
- Minimum 5+ years’ experience leading and managing Operations or Track Maintenance services; experienced operator with a focus on incident and safety management.
- Past or present CROR qualification (as a Track Forman or Assistant Track Forman or as a manager in a certain railway discipline) OR the ability to obtain CROR qualification and Tig is required.
- Knowledge of Canadian Railway Operating Rules (CROR, GEI, TIG).
- Knowledge of process development, ownership, and governance.
- Possess acute Operating P

📌 Sr. Safety Advisor (Toronto)
🏢 Aecon
📍 Toronto