Access Project Manager in Toronto

Construction Management | Engineering | Project Management | Full-time Job No. 1641 | Toronto

You've Never Been Satisfied with “Good Enough.” You didn't get into this to manage one piece of a project. You got into it to change how the world gets built. At Accenture Construct, that's the job. You'll help deliver the data centers, power grids, rail networks, factories and public infrastructure that keep communities moving — smarter, safer and more sustainably.

The Rail Access Planning Team is leading on the new Rail Access Performance and Prioritization Workstream and as such requires Project Managers to assist the Project Delivery Teams and Supply Chain with increasing Rail Access Utilization, Availability, Productivity and decreasing waste.

• Rail access optimisation.
• Support with bookings of appropriate access aligned to planned activity.
• Improve visibility of planned and booked works.
• Support with access specific negotiations.
• Support access innovation – aiming to achieve cost reduction and improving safety.
• Providing expertise to maximise the available working windows.
• Support the use of the Rail access planning tool.
• Assist with adherence to access process, procedure, and standards.
• Communicate and demonstrate planning best practice.

The Rail Access Project Manager is responsible for driving the day-to-day activities being undertaken by project teams and supply chain with regards to the booking and utilizing of rail access within the boundaries of the CPG Projects.

Following Root Cause Analysis on all projects and using data to drive decision making the Project managers will create the necessary action plans to, in collaboration, assist in optimizing projects plans. This role will also investigate the works carried out by the rail corridor access control team and run access improvement workshops with all CPG entities:

• Assist in creation of clean and accurate data source for access utilization.
• Create and track KPIs to assist in Utilization, Availability, Productivity improvement.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis exercises on all CPG Projects.
• Create improvement plans to be measured and monitored using the Lean Control room methodology.
• Assistance with Rail corridor access, possession, interface and deconfliction management.
• Create a collaborative working culture between capital works and operations teams, driving continuous improvement.
• Seek improvements to the existing governance structure to support better decision making and change management.

Working Conditions: Office-based (5 Days a week in Office)

Experience: Minimum of 12 years of experience in Rail Access Project Management

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Licenses OR Certifications: Green Belt/Black Belt Certified in an industrial environment with thorough knowledge of generic key business processes. Expertise in Lean and Six-Sigma methodologies and toolsets. Holding a recognized Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

Skills and Competencies:

• Knowledge and understanding of access issues in a railway environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of contractual issues in an access environment.
• Awareness of safety issues in an operational railway environment.
• Knowledge of access improvement initiatives and an understanding of how to drive these through to bring the desired benefits.
• Experience of planning complex, multidisciplinary construction works within operational corridors.
• Experience of dealing with rail access staff.
• Experience of rail access booking systems.
• Ability to understand various rules and regulations that dictate strategic access.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Role Location Annual Salary Range Ontario $141,000 to $211,000

What's in it for you:

• The biggest builds going. Hyperscale data centers, grid and generation, transit and rail, chip fabs, mines, water. If it's complex and it matters, it's on our list.
• You own the outcome. Not a workstream. Not a deliverable. Whether the program lands.
• AI that shows up on site. Program control that predicts instead of records.
• Serious investment in you. Leadership development, technical upskilling and certification support.
• Work that outlasts you. People will use what you build for forty years without knowing your name.
• Recognition that means something in this industry. Accenture Construct is ranked #6 globally in ENR's 2026 Top 50 Program Management Firms and #4 in Building Design + Construction's Top 80 Construction Management Firms for 2026.

About Accenture Construct: Accenture Construct is Accenture's global capital projects business. The data centers behind AI. The grid behind the energy transition. The rail, water and airports everything else runs on. We plan them, engineer them, deliver them and hand them over — and unlike most of this market, we're on the hook for whether they land on time. More than 5,000 practitioners across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. One team that owns the whole thing.

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