Director, Transit Full Time

The City of Mississauga is a vibrant, modern city known for its high-quality lifestyle, excellent programs, services, and leisure options. It attracts people globally with its welcoming atmosphere and serves as a key economic center, drawing international talent and investment with over 90,000 businesses and 72 Fortune 500 Headquarters. The city’s diverse culture fuels its role as an international hub. Mississauga offers a naturally enriching lifestyle with over 520 parks and woodlands, and celebrates local heritage, arts, and culture. The city’s strong vision, “can do” spirit, and commitment to excellence drive its economic prosperity and embrace of new technologies and innovations.

Mississauga’s transit system (MiWay) is one of the busiest in the province. Transit provides a safe and reliable transportation service to the community and meets the economic, social, and environmental needs of Mississauga’s residents, businesses and visitors. MiWay is Ontario’s third-largest municipal transit service and provides connectivity for a rapidly growing city to destinations throughout Mississauga and to neighbouring transit systems and municipalities. The City has set aggressive targets to increase ridership and modernize the system, to make taking transit easier, more comfortable and more convenient for all.
Reporting to the Commissioner, Transportation & Works, the Director, Transit provides overall strategic and operational leadership to the Transit Division. The Director is accountable for a $121M annual operating budget, 1665 employees, a bus fleet of 499 units and a $115M revenue target. The Director integrates higher order transit and connections with other GTHA systems within the wider transit network and ensures commitments are met in the MiWay Customer Charter with respect to safety, reliability, and on-time performance.

The ideal candidate will come with a minimum of 10 years progressively responsible senior level transit operations experience with experience related to the key responsibilities of the position, as well as proficiency in leading multi-disciplinary teams and working effectively in a multistakeholder environment. Strong strategic planning, operational leadership, and management skills, as well as working knowledge of relevant regulations and legislation. Demonstrated competencies in effectively implementing significant projects with multiple interests and funding sources in a consultative and collaborative manner with a focus on deliverables will be key to success in this leadership role.

The City of Mississauga is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessible Canada Act, 2019 and all applicable provincial accessibility standards, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers Berndtson and the City of Mississauga throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.

Applications are encouraged immediately, to express your interest in this important opportunity, please submit your resume and letter of interest at: https://careers.odgersberndtson.com/en-ca/30155 or [email protected]. We thank all those who express an interest, however only those chosen for further development will be contacted.