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    "description": "<h2></h2>\n<p><strong>GFT</strong> is seeking a <strong>Principal Transportation Engineer / Senior Project Manager</strong> to fill a position within our Transportation Group in Toronto. This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring regular attendance at our Toronto office.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>Working on the transportation team at GFT offers the opportunity to engage in transformative projects that enhance transportation infrastructure and improve community connectivity. Whether working on highways and bridges or traffic engineering, our team excels in resilient, sustainable design and construction, delivering innovative solutions that address the complexities of modern, multimodal roadway systems and ensure safe, efficient, and reliable travel for all​. Explore some of our signature transportation projects here.   </p>\n<h2><strong>What you’ll be challenged to do:</strong> </h2>\n<p>This is a senior role for an experienced transportation professional who can lead complex assignments, manage key client relationships, provide technical oversight, mentor staff, and support growth across our Ontario transportation portfolio.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The successful candidate will bring strong project delivery experience across provincial, municipal, regional, and transit-sector clients. This role is intended to strengthen senior delivery capacity, improve technical and quality oversight, support strategic pursuits, and help develop the next generation of transportation leaders within the Toronto team.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>The successful candidate must be able to support GFT’s positioning on transportation pursuits and be eligible to serve as senior/key personnel for relevant MTO RAQS categories.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>You will provide senior project management, technical leadership, and client-facing support for transportation infrastructure projects across Ontario. Assignments may include highway and roadway planning/design, traffic engineering, corridor improvements, municipal roads, transit-supportive infrastructure, transportation operations, safety reviews, construction staging, detour planning, and multidisciplinary infrastructure programs.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>You will also play a key role in strengthening the Toronto Transportation Practice by supporting proposal development, mentoring junior and intermediate staff, improving delivery consistency, and helping the team win and deliver high-quality work.</p>\n<h2></h2>\n<p><strong>Key Responsibilities: </strong></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>Project and Technical Leadership</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Lead and manage complex transportation engineering assignments for provincial, municipal, regional, and transit-sector clients.</li>\n <li>Serve as Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, Technical Lead, Senior Reviewer, or QA/QC Lead on transportation infrastructure projects.</li>\n <li>Oversee project 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client engagement, market awareness, and strong delivery performance.</li>\n <li>Identify follow-on work opportunities and support account planning for key transportation clients.</li>\n <li>Represent GFT in client meetings, technical workshops, project reviews, industry events, and pursuit interviews.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>MTO RAQS and Pursuit Support</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Support GFT’s ability to pursue and deliver MTO and other Ontario transportation assignments.</li>\n <li>Contribute to MTO-related pursuits, qualifications packages, technical submissions, work plans, and project delivery strategies.</li>\n <li>Maintain working knowledge of MTO expectations, Ontario transportation standards, agency coordination requirements, and quality management practices.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Quality, Risk, and Delivery excellence</strong></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Provide senior QA/QC oversight to improve technical consistency, risk management, and delivery quality.</li>\n <li>Apply sound 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<li>Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a related field.</li>\n <li>Licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, or immediately eligible for licensure with Professional Engineers Ontario.</li>\n <li>Minimum 15 years of progressive transportation engineering experience, including significant Ontario public-sector infrastructure experience.</li>\n <li>Minimum 8 years of project management, technical leadership, or senior delivery experience on transportation infrastructure assignments.</li>\n <li>Demonstrated experience leading transportation assignments for public-sector clients such as MTO, municipalities, regions, transit agencies, or other infrastructure owners.</li>\n <li>Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, client relationships, project budgets, schedules, risk, quality, and technical deliverables.</li>\n <li>Strong knowledge of Ontario transportation design practices, agency requirements, contract delivery models, and multidisciplinary 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