About the Role
This role offers the opportunity to gain expertise and skills while maintaining work-life balance. You will provide senior engineering leadership and discipline authority for signalling engineering across major Sydney Metro projects, ensuring the integrity, safety, and assurance of signalling systems throughout their lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Provide discipline leadership and lifecycle engineering assurance for signalling systems from concept through to commissioning and handover
- Lead and oversee signalling engineering reviews, technical submissions, RFIs, waivers, concessions and non-conformance management
- Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, statutory requirements, safety integrity levels and signalling standards
- Act as a technical authority for system reviews, including SRR, PDR, CDR and testing and commissioning readiness
- Manage complex interfaces across signalling, rolling stock, TMS/DTO, IRCS, power, track and other rail subsystems
- Support safety assurance activities including hazard identification, risk management, SSHA and system acceptance
- Provide high-level technical advice to project leadership, governance forums and key stakeholders
- Contribute to the development of engineering capability, assurance frameworks and best-practice systems engineering approaches
Requirements
- A degree in Electrical, Electronic, Systems or a related engineering discipline
- Extensive experience working with metro rail signalling and train control systems
- Demonstrated experience in engineering assurance, safety-by-design and systems engineering
- Strong knowledge of signalling standards, regulatory frameworks and rail safety requirements
- Proven ability to manage complex technical interfaces and stakeholder relationships
- Experience providing expert technical advice at senior levels within large infrastructure programs
- Sydney Metro Signalling & Train Control System competency (minimum Level L2) or the ability to obtain it
- The ability to work autonomously while contributing collaboratively within a matrixed organisation
Skills
- Signalling engineering
- Systems engineering
- Safety assurance
- Risk management
- Stakeholder management
- Technical authority
- Engineering leadership
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
- Extensive experience
Education Level
- Degree in Electrical, Electronic, Systems or a related engineering discipline
Benefits
- Work-life balance
- Wellbeing support
About the Company
- Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system, connecting people, communities and industry every day.
- Sydney Metro delivers Australia’s biggest public transport project and first driverless railway, engaging with customers and community, and contributing to vibrant and attractive places through station design, interchanges and precincts.
Equal Opportunity
- Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply.
