Role: Senior Consultant Rail

Location: Toronto, Canada Flexible Hybrid working

Salary: CAD $150,000.00 - $160,000.00 per annum 

Vacancy Status: This posting is for a Senior Consultant to work in our Rail Team

Role ID: 2026-3234

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

Are you ready to take on dynamic challenges and make a real impact in the rail industry?

We’re seeking talented professionals to join our Rail Certification and Consulting team. This is your opportunity to leverage your expertise in software and safety assurance while contributing to projects that shape the future of rail.

Whether your background is in Rolling Stock, Infrastructure, Signalling, or Operations & Maintenance (O&M), we want to hear from you! If you thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to apply your skills across diverse areas of the rail sector, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Produce high-quality analysis, assessments, reports, and designs to support client projects, ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets.
• Innovate new tools and techniques to meet client needs, drawing from global best practices.
• Plan and execute project activities, ensuring timely delivery and client satisfaction.
• Provide technical expertise and inputs for business development activities and proposals.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative risk assessments, ensuring client safety and satisfaction.
• Represent our company in client meetings, workshops, and industry events.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to drive project success.
• Assume leadership roles as needed to support business objectives.
• Contribute to the growth of our North American business through delivering excellence to our clients.

 Key Competencies and Experience

• Degree in computer science, electronic/electrical engineering or similar.
• Highly experienced in the rail industry.
• Understanding of system safety for complex electronic systems in the rail industry.
• Experience with CENELEC system safety standards (EN50126, 50128, 50129).
• Awareness of different railway signalling systems and principles (e.g. CBTC, PTC, ETCS).
• Experience with safety analysis techniques for complex systems (e.g. fault tree analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, functional failure analysis, hazard identification).
• Familiarity with software development and verification techniques for safety-critical software (e.g. coding standards, software testing, static analysis).
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong organisational abilities, flexible and adept at meeting deadlines.

Desirable experience

• Awareness of field testing (e.g. system integration tests, dynamic testing, trial running) In depth.
• knowledge of CMREA / CSM / CENELEC standards.
• Familiarity with the Canadian Railway System, including CMREA, is advantageous.

Note: We do not require Canadian work experience for this role.

Additional Information

AI Disclosure: We don’t use AI tools to assist in [resume screening / candidate matching / other selection processes].

Candidates interviewed will receive feedback within 45 days of their interview.

Records related to this posting and candidate communications will be retained for three years in compliance with Ontario regulations.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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