Testing and Commissioning Director
Accenture
This is a Contract position in Toronto, ON posted March 19, 2025.
- (Internal Title-Project Management V)
- Oversee and manage the Contractor’s Testing and Commissioning Team to ensure milestones are met without compromising safety or quality
- Develop and ensure a progressive handover approach so testing is phased and not bottlenecked by civil works delays
- Drive integration across traction power, track, signals, tunnel ventilation, and communications
- Ensure the Contractor’s Testing and Commissioning processes align with system assurance, operational readiness, and safety case requirements
- Validate that test reports, commissioning certificates, and safety approvals are properly documented before service trials
- Work closely with the Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) to review safety-related test results and certification readiness
- Proactively address testing risks related to civil delays, design changes, or system integration issues
- Ensure the Contractor’s Testing and Commissioning schedule is properly phased with construction completion and system installation
- Ensure Operations & Maintenance (O&M) teams are engaged early for operator training, trial running, and final acceptance
- Provide final approval for system readiness, ensuring all commissioning requirements are closed out before revenue service
- Ensure all Testing and Commissioning documentation, certifications, and as-built records are completed
- Managing testing and commissioning interfaces and dependencies across all asset groups (incl facilities and systems)
- Leading the handover of assets to stakeholders such as Stakeholder's Asset Management and Maintenance
- Leading operational readiness task force
- Responsible for the assigned projects from inception through to completion
- Develop new project plans in consultation with stakeholders, including clients
- Direct the human and material resources required to complete assigned projects successfully
- Formulate a resource allocation strategy and utilize this to distribute work and budgets
- Exercise authority in managing the work and controlling the delivery of the projects per project plans
- Monitor project staff performance to ensure excellence and adherence to specified deadlines
- Review and ensure observance of the overall scope, schedule, and budget
- Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies and contingency plans
- Lead the tracking, monitoring, and reporting on performance against project requirements, schedule, milestones, budgets, quality measures, and KPIs, and addressing of issues with corrective actions as appropriate
- Evaluate the project's effectiveness by consulting with clients and project staff
- Oversee staff on progress reports, proposals, and presentations to various audiences, including the project team, client executives, key stakeholders, and operations
- Direct the negotiation of scope changes
- Manage ongoing quality control checks and participate in quality issue resolution
- Define the success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout the project and program life cycle
- Set and interpret project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders
- Working Conditions
- Office-based
