Lead, Climate Asset Resilience

JOB INFORMATION

Requisition ID: 13909 
Number of Vacancies: 1 
Department: Innovation and Strategic Projects (20001214) - Fleet & Facility Strategy (30000587) 
Salary Information:  115,570.00  -  144,526.20
Pay Scale Group:  10SA (CAN/S/J/10SA)
Employment Type:  Regular
New or Existing Vacancy:Existing 

Weekly Hours:  35 Off Days:  Saturday and Sunday   Shift:  Day
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 build a more resilient transit system for the future? Join the TTC and play a leading role in strengthening the organization's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the growing impacts of climate change and extreme weather.

As the Lead, Climate Asset Resilience, you will help shape how climate resilience is embedded across TTC operations, maintenance, asset management, planning, and capital programs. This is a unique opportunity to influence organizational priorities, drive meaningful improvements, and ensure resilience actions translate into measurable outcomes that protect transit assets, infrastructure, service reliability, and customers.

What You Will Do

Reporting to the Manager, Climate Adaptation & Resilience, you will lead the development, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of TTC's climate asset resilience framework, ensuring climate adaptation and extreme weather preparedness are effectively integrated into asset management, operations, maintenance, and capital planning activities.

You will establish and maintain governance frameworks, action-tracking processes, reporting structures, performance measures, and continuous improvement mechanisms that support the implementation of TTC's Climate Adaptation Plan and related resilience initiatives. Working closely with asset owners and operational groups across the organization, you will ensure resilience actions are assigned, monitored, escalated, and completed while maintaining visibility of priorities, risks, dependencies, funding needs, implementation status, and residual risks.

The successful incumbent will lead and facilitate reviews following significant weather-related events, including flooding, extreme heat, severe storms, and other climate-related disruptions. You will work collaboratively with operational departments, engineering teams, Emergency Management, and external partners to assess impacts on TTC assets and infrastructure, identify recurring vulnerabilities, document lessons learned, establish corrective actions, and monitor implementation progress.

You will develop and maintain resilience performance metrics, dashboards, reporting systems, and centralized data repositories that track climate-related impacts on assets, infrastructure vulnerabilities, service disruptions, mitigation measures, implementation progress, and risk reduction outcomes. Through data analysis and trend monitoring, you will identify emerging risks and opportunities to improve the resilience of TTC facilities, infrastructure, and transit services.

A key component of the role involves working closely with Asset Management, Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Capital Planning, and Infrastructure groups to ensure climate resilience considerations are embedded into asset management plans, state-of-good-repair programs, capital investment decisions, maintenance practices, and future infrastructure planning.

You will also lead collaboration with external stakeholders, including municipalities, utilities, conservation authorities, Metrolinx, and other agency partners, to address climate risks and resilience opportunities affecting TTC assets and infrastructure. By fostering strong partnerships, you will help coordinate shared solutions, funding opportunities, and long-term resilience strategies that support TTC's operational and capital priorities.

As a trusted subject matter expert, you will provide strategic advice on climate adaptation, extreme weather impacts, infrastructure resilience, and asset vulnerability management while preparing reports, recommendations, presentations, and briefings for senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

What Qualifications Do You Bring?

• University degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Climate Science, Asset Management, Infrastructure Management, Sustainability, Emergency Management, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Experience developing and implementing climate adaptation, climate resilience, asset resilience, infrastructure resilience, sustainability, risk management, or asset management programs within a large and complex organization.
• Experience conducting or supporting climate vulnerability assessments, resilience assessments, asset risk management initiatives, or climate adaptation planning activities.
• Strong knowledge of climate change impacts, extreme weather risks, asset management principles, infrastructure resilience, climate adaptation, and risk-informed decision-making.
• Experience developing governance frameworks, reporting processes, dashboards, metrics, action-tracking systems, and continuous improvement programs.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical, operational, engineering, maintenance, and asset information to identify vulnerabilities, risks, dependencies, and opportunities for resilience improvements.
• Experience working across engineering, operations, maintenance, infrastructure, capital planning, and asset management functions to advance common objectives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills with the ability to drive outcomes across multiple departments and external agencies.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects and initiatives independently while balancing multiple priorities and competing demands.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience preparing executive-level reports, recommendations, dashboards, briefing materials, and strategic presentations.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to develop practical and evidence-based solutions.
• Experience managing consultants, reviewing technical studies, and developing scopes of work and procurement requirements.
• Proficiency with reporting, dashboarding, data analysis, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and collaboration tools.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with demonstrated ability to manage complex assignments and meet deadlines.

Assets

• Postgraduate education in Climate Adaptation, Asset Management, Infrastructure Resilience, Sustainability, Engineering, Emergency Management, or a related field.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) designation or comparable project/program management certification.
• Professional training or certification in climate adaptation, resilience planning, asset management, sustainability, emergency management, business continuity, or risk management.
• Experience within transit, transportation, municipal government, utilities, infrastructure, or other public-sector environments.
• Experience developing climate resilience strategies for critical infrastructure, transportation systems, facilities, or large public assets.
• Experience supporting state-of-good-repair programs, asset management planning, infrastructure investment planning, or resilience-focused capital initiatives.

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 Jobs@ttc.ca .  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.