Rail Planning Specialist

Role Responsibilities

Alberta’s government recognizes the importance of passenger rail for the future of a rapidly growing province and looks forward to charting the path forward for passenger rail in Alberta. Join the Government of Alberta’s Passenger Rail Team to lead the implementation of the provincial Passenger Rail Strategy—a once-in-a-generation initiative with the potential to transform how Albertans move, connect, and grow. Work on this mandate will enhance the province’s transportation network and ensure a more safe and efficient transportation system in Alberta.

Come be a part of the team that takes this work forward!

Rail Planning Specialist: As the Rail Planning Specialist, you will focus on urban and transportation planning to integrate passenger rail into Alberta’s multi-modal transportation system. Reporting to the Director, Passenger Rail, you will provide planning advice on feasibility assessments, corridor development, and station integration with municipal transit systems and airports. You will also collaborate with stakeholders to promote transit-oriented development (TOD) and optimize land use adjacent to passenger rail stations.

Your responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Planning passenger rail services and ensuring seamless integration with existing transit systems and airports.
• Developing policies and guidelines for station planning, TOD, and land use adjacent to rail corridors.
• Providing technical advice on station locations, parking, and multimodal interactions.
• Collaborating with municipalities, airport authorities, and private sector stakeholders on planning agreements.
• Resolving conflicts between municipal, provincial, and federal priorities in rail planning projects.

To be successful in this position, you will demonstrate:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills including experience in making presentations to executive management, elected officials, and the public.
• Exceptional personal interactive skills; the capability to work well with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear, concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and staff.
• Strategic, conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Negotiating skills within a context of political sensitivity and conflicting interests.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

• Build Collaborative Environments - Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict.  Encourages broad thinking on projects and works to eliminate barriers to progress. Facilitates communication and collaboration. Anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset.  Credits others and gets talent recognized.  Promotes collaboration and commitment.
• Systems Thinking - Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them. Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities. Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives. Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values. Works with others to identify areas for collaboration.
• Creative Problem Solving- Find ways to incorporate information into succinct response on a variety of complex topics.

Qualifications

Required:

• A related university degree (e.g., Engineering), supplemented by at least 10 years of related experience with construction or civil engineering.
• Registered or eligible to register as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with APEGA.
  
  

Assets:

• Experience in the operations, construction, and planning of railways, crossings and new railway (light and/or heavy passenger rail) design and/or construction projects.
• Experience with complex heavy rail and light rail transit projects. 

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This role is a permanent, full-time position with the standard work hours as 36.25 Monday to Friday.

Location: Twin Atria Building, 4999 98 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6B 2X3.

Final candidates for this position will be asked to undergo pre-employment checks.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Testing might be considered as part of our assessment process.

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) - https://www.mepp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.