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Hitachi Rail named Top Employer in Greater Toronto for sixth straight year
- Canada’s Top 100 Employers competition, the definitive annual list of the country’s best workplaces, named Hitachi Rail as Greater Toronto’s Top Employer.
- Hitachi Rail has secured this recognition for the past six years.
- Hitachi Rail is a research and technology leader with over 1,100 employees across Canada, specializing in world leading rail signalling technology in Toronto.
Hitachi Rail has been named as Greater Toronto's Top Employer, in Canada's Top 100 Employers competition, the definitive annual list of the country's best workplaces. Hitachi Rail’s office in North York employs more than 1,000 people and is home to the global engineering excellence centre for the Urban Rail Signalling business.
Hitachi Rail’s SelTrac™ Communications-Based Train Control (CBTC) solution, invented in Ontario, helps urban public transport operators to carry three billion passengers every year. The technology is deployed on complex existing metro networks in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, and also helped cities build new networks in Dubai, Doha, Santiago, Vancouver, Kuala Lumpur, and Seoul. Hitachi Rail provides signalling systems for more than 100 metro lines in over 40 major cities, including projects in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.
For more than 50 years in Canada, Hitachi Rail has been an engineering leader, supporting customers in transportation, having established its first Canada location in Toronto in the 1970’s. Since those early beginnings, Hitachi Rail has been a strong partner of local businesses and a positive economic force in the region.
With a total three offices in the Greater Toronto Area and additional offices in two other Canadian provinces – British Colombia and Quebec, Hitachi Rail employees in Canada work closely with colleagues throughout 50+ countries. Hitachi is committed to fostering a diverse workplace where every employee feels welcomed, valued, respected, and supported to succeed.
More information can be found here about why Hitachi Rail Canada was selected as a 2025 Greater Toronto Top Employer.
“Hitachi Rail is proud to be recognized as an employer of choice in Toronto with our Urban Rail Signalling competence center. Our talented people are our greatest asset and ensuring we have an inclusive and supportive environment is essential to our success. ” – Ziad Rizk, Managing Director, Urban Rail Signalling, Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is recruiting actively in Canada and for more information please – click here.
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About Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail is committed to driving the sustainable mobility transition and has a clear focus on partnering with customers to rethink mobility. Its mission is to help every passenger, customer and community enjoy the benefits of more connected, seamless and sustainable transport.
With revenues of over €7bn and 24,000 employees across more than 50 countries, Hitachi Rail is a trusted partner to the world’s best transport organisations. The company's reach is global, but the business is local - with success built on developing local talent and investing in people and communities.
Its international capabilities and expertise span every part of the urban, mainline and freight rail ecosystems – from high quality manufacturing and maintenance of rolling stock to secure digital signalling, smart operations and payment systems.
Hitachi Rail, famous for Japan's iconic high speed bullet train, draws on the digital and AI expertise of Hitachi Group companies to accelerate innovation and develop new technologies. Hitachi Group is present in 140 countries with over 270,000 employees and global revenues of €54.55bn / ¥8,564 bn.
For more information, visit hitachirail.com
