Specialist, Electrical Infrastructure Capacity

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Employment Type: Temporary Until December 2028
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Posted On: November 11, 2026
Last Day to Apply: November 20, 2026

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), North America's third largest transit system and recognized as one of the top places to work in the GTA has introduced its new 2024-2028 TTC Corporate Plan - Moving Toronto, Connecting Communities which continues the TTC’s legacy of delivering service to hundreds of millions of customers a year. The TTC’s new vision and mission statements also help promote the many environmental, social equity and economic benefits that the TTC provides:

Vision: Moving Toronto towards a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous future.

Mission: To serve the needs of transit riders by providing a safe, reliable, efficient, and accessible mass public transit service through a seamless integrated network to create access to opportunity for everyone.

The full Plan can be viewed on ttc.ca.

Career Opportunity

Ready to help power the future of transit? Join the TTC and play a pivotal role in shaping the electrical infrastructure required to support fleet electrification, service growth, major capital investments, and TTC's long-term decarbonization goals.

As the Specialist, Electrical Infrastructure & Capacity, you will provide strategic and technical leadership for commission-wide electrical capacity planning, ensuring TTC's electrical infrastructure can support future operational demands, network expansion, facility modernization, and the transition to zero-emission transit technologies. This is a unique opportunity to influence long-term infrastructure investment decisions while supporting some of the TTC's most significant sustainability and modernization initiatives.

What You Will Do

Reporting to the Manager, Sustainability Strategy, you will lead TTC's commission-wide approach to electrical infrastructure and capacity planning. Acting as the organization's subject matter expert in electrical capacity strategy, you will develop and maintain an integrated understanding of existing electrical infrastructure, available system capacity, future demand requirements, utility constraints, and long-term infrastructure investment priorities.

You will establish and maintain a comprehensive electrical infrastructure baseline across TTC facilities, stations, yards, garages, shops, offices, traction power systems, substations, transformers, feeders, switchgear, distribution systems, metering assets, standby generation systems, and utility connections.

Working collaboratively across the organization, you will identify capacity constraints, infrastructure risks, data gaps, and future requirements while developing tools, dashboards, models, and reporting systems that support informed decision-making.

The successful incumbent will develop long-range electricity demand forecasts that account for fleet electrification, facility decarbonization, traction power requirements, renewable energy initiatives, energy storage integration, charging infrastructure deployment, major capital projects, service growth, state-of-good-repair programs, and emerging technologies.

You will evaluate forecast demand against existing infrastructure capacity, identify gaps and risks, and recommend infrastructure investments required to support TTC's operational and sustainability objectives through 2040 and beyond.

You will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Service Planning, Bus and Streetcar Operations, Vehicle Programs, Asset Management, Renewable Energy teams, utilities, charging providers, and external stakeholders to validate assumptions and align infrastructure planning with fleet deployment strategies, service expansion requirements, and future growth scenarios.

A key component of the role will be developing and maintaining a multi-year electrical infrastructure roadmap that identifies required upgrades, utility investments, enabling works, infrastructure dependencies, implementation timelines, cost estimates, funding requirements, and strategic investment priorities.

You will provide critical technical input into business cases, Board reports, capital planning submissions, funding applications, and long-term investment strategies.

You will serve as TTC's primary strategic planning liaison with Toronto Hydro and other utility providers, coordinating long-term demand forecasts, capacity assessments, connection requirements, infrastructure upgrades, utility studies, and implementation schedules. Through collaboration and stakeholder engagement, you will help secure the electrical capacity necessary to support future service growth, fleet electrification, and decarbonization initiatives.

As a trusted advisor, you will provide expert analysis and recommendations related to electrical infrastructure planning, charging systems, power distribution, utility coordination, capacity management, energy systems, and long-term investment planning, ensuring TTC's infrastructure is positioned to meet future operational needs.

What Qualifications Do You Bring?

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, or a related engineering discipline is required.
• Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility for registration with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) is required.
• Significant experience providing strategic and technical leadership in electrical infrastructure planning, utility planning, power systems, electrical capacity planning, load forecasting, or utility coordination within a complex infrastructure environment.
• Advanced knowledge of electrical distribution systems, including substations, transformers, feeders, switchgear, protection systems, electrical networks, metering systems, utility services, power quality, reliability, and charging infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience developing long-term electrical demand forecasts, capacity assessments, infrastructure strategies, and investment plans for large and complex organizations.
• Strong understanding of electrical infrastructure planning associated with fleet electrification, facility electrification, renewable energy, energy storage, transportation systems, or major infrastructure projects.
• Experience assessing electrical demand growth, infrastructure constraints, peak demand, load profiles, and long-range capacity requirements.
• Proven experience working directly with electric utilities on capacity studies, system planning, connection requirements, infrastructure upgrades, service applications, utility constraints, and long-range energy planning.
• Demonstrated ability to review and validate utility studies, technical assessments, cost estimates, infrastructure plans, and upgrade proposals.
• Experience developing strategic infrastructure roadmaps, investment plans, implementation strategies, and technical recommendations that support organizational growth and modernization objectives.
• Knowledge of utility operations, electrical infrastructure lifecycle management, asset planning, system reliability, and capital planning processes.
• Strong understanding of decarbonization initiatives, transportation electrification, fleet charging requirements, renewable energy integration, and energy transition strategies.
• Demonstrated project and program management experience, including leading complex technical studies, consultant assignments, modelling initiatives, and multi-stakeholder planning efforts.
• Excellent analytical, communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex technical information into practical business recommendations.
• Strong ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting information, assess risks and opportunities, and develop defensible recommendations that balance engineering, operational, financial, utility, and sustainability priorities.
• Knowledge of applicable Ontario electrical, utility, safety, building, and engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
• Proficiency with data analysis tools, modelling applications, spreadsheets, databases, dashboards, and software used for electrical planning, forecasting, capacity analysis, and reporting.

Assets

• Postgraduate education in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Energy Systems Engineering, Transportation Systems, Asset Management, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure Planning, or a related field.
• Experience supporting transit, transportation, railway, utility, energy, or public-sector infrastructure organizations.
• Experience applying electrical capacity planning to fleet electrification, electric bus programs, charging infrastructure deployment, facility decarbonization, traction power systems, or network expansion initiatives.
• Experience with renewable energy systems, battery energy storage systems, demand response programs, managed charging strategies, or distributed energy resources.
• Experience developing long-term demand forecasts, scenario modelling, capacity planning studies, or infrastructure investment strategies for large-scale capital programs.
• Familiarity with utility rate structures, cost-sharing agreements, energy procurement, and electrical infrastructure funding models.

What We Offer

• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging, representation and reflects the needs of the communities we serve.
• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives and making the most of the benefits of working remotely and purpose-driven in-person collaboration opportunities.
• One of the great benefits of being a full-time TTC employee is becoming a member of TTC defined pension plan.
• A comprehensive package that covers health, dental, vision and more.
• Support for professional development opportunities for all colleagues through a broad range of learning programs that include in-person and online training, leadership development, and support for colleagues’ well-being.

Commitment to EDI

The TTC is committed to upholding the values of equity, diversity, anti-racism and inclusion in the delivery of its services and in its workplaces. The TTC is committed to fostering a diverse workforce that is representative of the communities it serves at all levels of the organization and supports an inclusive environment where diverse employee and community perspectives and experiences bring value to the organization. The TTC encourages applications from all applicants, including members of groups with historical and/or current barriers to equity, including but not limited to, Indigenous, Black and racialized groups, people with disabilities, women and people from the LGBTQIA+ community. The TTC values and supports an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Accommodations for applicants are available upon request throughout the recruitment and selection process, including for those who identify as having a disability. Please contact Talent Management at (416) 393-4570 or [email protected] . Any information received related to an accommodation will be addressed confidentially.

General Prohibition in Hiring Process

The TTC is also committed to a fair hiring process based on job related qualifications, merit, and abilities. You are expected to write your own materials and provide your own qualifications and experiences during the hiring process. The TTC will not tolerate the use of artificial intelligence or external resources in any of your submissions or responses, or the disclosure of interview questions to others. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

• The use of any artificial intelligence (AI) tool including, but not limited to, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, to generate or produce any information or materials to be submitted or any response to any assessment question or any interview question, is prohibited.
• All information and materials you submit, including resume, cover letter, and assessment responses, are your own original work without the use of any AI tool
• During any interview, your response to any interview question is your own without the use or assistance of any AI tool or any person.
• You will not disseminate or disclose to any person any interview question.

Should you breach the prohibition of AI tool use, or information dissemination or disclosure, you will be in violation of TTC’s hiring process and TTC may withdraw your application and may prohibit you from participation in the TTC hiring process.

Relatives of TTC Employees

The TTC’s policy prohibits relatives of current TTC employees from being hired, assigned, transferred or promoted into positions, where there is a conflict of interest due to a relationship. Should you be selected for an interview, you will be required to disclose the name, relationship and position of any relative who is a current TTC employee.

We thank all applicants for their interest but advise only those selected for an interview will be contacted.