Technical Director Jobs in Montreal, Canada at Aecon
Location: Montreal
What is the Opportunity?
Aecon is seeking a Technical Director to join the Urban Transportations Solutions group to support dynamic, transit projects in Canada. We are proud to support projects that are committed to faster and more convenient travel, ultimately improving transportation experiences. This starts with bringing aboard the best possible team!
Reporting to the Project Director, the Technical Director will lead the technical discipline to ensure successful management and integration of design, delivering design outputs to required standards while enabling construction readiness and operational outcomes.
This opportunity is part of Aecon UTS’ proactive talent pipelining as the business continues to expand across major transit projects. We are engaging passive, high-calibre leaders in the market to build relationships ahead of upcoming project awards.
What You Will Do Here:
Lead the technical and design function for collaborative contracting models such as Alliance, Progressive Design-Build, CMGC, and other integrated or open-book delivery environments, ensuring design strategy supports best-for-project outcomes, target cost objectives, and delivery commitments.
Provide overall technical leadership across the full project lifecycle, from development and concept design through preliminary design, detailed design, construction support, testing, commissioning, handover, and as-built closeout.
Develop, implement, and maintain the Design Management Plan, establishing how design will be planned, governed, progressed, reviewed, approved, coordinated, and controlled across all disciplines and phases.
Direct and manage the design consultant team through the Design Service Agreement, setting clear expectations for scope, schedule, staffing, technical quality, deliverables, and responsiveness while holding designers accountable in a collaborative, productive manner.
Own and enforce a gated design progression model from concept through preliminary, detailed, issued-for-construction, and as-built stages, including design maturity criteria, technical review checkpoints, readiness assessments, and approval gates.
Lead the project’s requirements management process, ensuring contractual, regulatory, operational, safety, and technical requirements are captured in a structured system, allocated to design packages, and traced through to compliance verification and evidence.
Establish and maintain technical governance, standards, and controls for design development, technical reviews, decision-making, change impacts, and design quality across the project lifecycle.
Lead multi-disciplinary design coordination across civil, structural, architectural, geotechnical, utilities, track, guideway, stations, systems, mechanical, electrical, communications, signaling, traction power, overhead catenary, tunnel systems, and related disciplines.
Manage interfaces between design disciplines, construction teams, systems integration teams, vendors, operations and maintenance stakeholders, and third parties to ensure technical alignment, constructability, integration, and compliance are achieved before issues reach the field.
Lead Integrated Digital Delivery and design information management, including Common Data Environment governance, revision control, status coding, model coordination, deliverables planning, and alignment of MIDP, TIDP, BIM execution, and digital design workflows.
Ensure design deliverables are coordinated, constructable, compliant, and optimized for delivery efficiency, long-term performance, and total project cost without compromising safety, quality, or contractual obligations.
Lead design reviews at key milestones, ensuring reviews are structured, technically rigorous, well documented, and resolved in a timely manner so issues do not accumulate and compromise downstream delivery.
Monitor and control design scope, schedule, resource loading, and progress, identifying design creep, quantity growth, incomplete scope definition, and schedule slippage early and ensuring impacts are assessed and managed through the appropriate governance processes.
Manage the master design deliverables schedule and ensure design outputs are aligned with procurement milestones, construction sequencing, third-party interfaces, regulatory approvals, assurance activities, testing, commissioning, and handover needs.
Provide technical leadership into project planning, procurement, construction, and commissioning strategies so design decisions support delivery sequencing, constructability, packaging, installation logic, and field execution.
Lead technical and constructability reviews, incorporating input from construction, project controls, procurement, systems, and operations stakeholders to improve buildability, reduce rework, and strengthen value-for-money outcomes.
Embed assurance and certification requirements into design development, including RAMS, hazard management, safety assurance, verification and validation, engineering safety obligations, and…
Title: Technical Director
Company: Aecon
Location: Montreal, Canada
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