Rail and Transit Systems Engineering Manager

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Job Description:

Help Shape the Future of Transit

At Parsons, we’re redefining how people move through cities and communities. As a global leader in rail and transit solutions, we partner with our clients to deliver complex, high-impact transportation programs that make transit safer, smarter, more reliable, and more efficient.

We bring together deep systems engineering expertise, digital innovation, and multidisciplinary delivery to solve some of the toughest challenges in modern mobility. From early planning through commissioning and operational readiness, our teams help bring transformational transit systems to life.

If you’re a senior systems engineering leader who thrives on solving complex problems, leading high-performing teams, and delivering next-generation rail and transit solutions, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

The Opportunity

Parsons is looking for a Rail & Transit Systems Engineering Manager to support major projects in Western Canada and beyond. You will need to be based out of our Burnaby, Canada office.

In this leadership role, you will be at the forefront of delivering advanced transit command, control, and communications systems. You’ll guide critical system-level engineering activities across the full project lifecycle, working closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure integrated, high-performing, and operationally ready solutions.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical depth with leadership capability — someone who can connect requirements, design, integration, testing, and assurance into a cohesive systems delivery strategy.

What You’ll Do

You will play a key role in the successful delivery of complex rail and transit systems by:

• Leading and managing Systems Engineering teams across one or more major projects

• Driving system-level engineering activities throughout the full systems engineering lifecycle

• Supporting the design, integration, delivery, testing, and commissioning of advanced transit systems

• Working closely with engineering teams across key technical domains, including:

  • Communications
  • Signaling and Train Control
  • Traction Power
  • Trackwork
  • Fixed Facilities

• Partnering with systems engineering specialists in:

  • System Architecture
  • Requirements Management
  • Interface Management
  • Verification and Validation
  • Systems Assurance

• Collaborating with internal disciplines and external stakeholders, including architects, code consultants, contractors, authorities having jurisdiction, and major suppliers

• Supporting construction, installation, and field coordination activities

• Engaging with Operations and Maintenance teams to help ensure long-term operational success

• Contributing to test and commissioning activities and supporting systems through readiness and start-up

• Assisting with customer training and development of Operations & Maintenance manuals

What You Bring

You are a collaborative and technically accomplished systems engineering leader who knows how to navigate complexity, align stakeholders, and keep delivery moving.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Proven experience leading technical teams and managing systems engineering delivery

• Strong experience in the design and/or integration of communications systems and train control systems for transit facilities and vehicles

• A solid track record of developing technical requirements and specifications

• Experience using digital delivery tools such as DOORS or similar requirements management platforms

• The ability to operate effectively in complex, multidisciplinary project environments spanning multiple system domains

• Strong communication skills and confidence working with technical teams, senior leadership, clients, partners, and suppliers

• The ability to lead technical conversations, influence decisions, and represent the systems engineering function with credibility

• A hands-on, adaptable approach and comfort working across office, project, and field environments

• The initiative to work independently while driving collaboration across a broader team

Required Qualifications

• EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (or related field) and typically 15+ years of related work experience, including supervisory/managerial experience. Professional Engineer registration with active membership in a professional engineering society may be required

• P.Eng designation in British Columbia

Why Parsons?

At Parsons, you won’t just work on projects — you’ll help deliver infrastructure that transforms how communities connect and grow.

When you join us, you can expect:

• The opportunity to work on large-scale, complex rail and transit programs

• A leadership role with meaningful technical influence and visibility

• A collaborative environment that values innovation, expertise, and problem-solving

• Exposure to advanced technologies and integrated digital delivery approaches

• The chance to help shape the future of mobility across Canada

This position is part of our Critical Infrastructure team.

For more than 80 years, our experts have designed and delivered the critical infrastructure that connects and protects communities around the world. We work in collaborative teams, both within the company and with our partners and customers, to plan, design, build, and modernize infrastructure. We take special pride in projects and solutions that improve communities as well as people’s quality of life by promoting economic growth, enhancing mobility, and increasing sustainability and resiliency. Powered by our people, we provide the imagination necessary to support our customers’ visions—and to help them see what's next!

Salary Range: $131,800 - $244,700

This job posting is for a current addition or replacement opportunity within Parsons.

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as health, vision, dental, employer paid provincial care premiums, Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), life insurance, paid time off, sick leave, all province observed holidays off, and gym membership discounts to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for indigenous peoples, women, individuals with disabilities, and visible minorities.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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