Manager Rail Systems
Role Overview
Manager – Rail Systems role in SMEC’s Sydney Rail and Metro team.
Combines technical expertise and engineering management to deliver complex rail infrastructure projects.
Responsible for systems integration, engineering assurance, interface management, and project delivery across line-wide, station, tunnel, and corridor environments.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Manager – Rail Systems role in SMEC’s Sydney Rail and Metro team.
Combines technical expertise and engineering management to deliver complex rail infrastructure projects.
Responsible for systems integration, engineering assurance, interface management, and project delivery across line-wide, station, tunnel, and corridor environments.
Key responsibilities
- Lead technical work across rail signalling, train control, telecommunications, SCADA, traction-power interfaces, and multidisciplinary systems integration.
- Coordinate contributors and stakeholders to deliver quality project work on time.
- Review rail-systems designs and coordinate integration across signalling, rollingstock, electrical, civil, and operational disciplines.
- Ensure engineering analysis and design meet relevant standards, project specifications, and client requirements.
- Lead design management and package interfaces for safe, reliable, operable, whole-of-life transport outcomes.
- Build client relationships, pursue business opportunities, and mentor electrical engineering teams.
About you
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent qualification.
- More than 12 years of rail systems engineering experience.
- Extensive knowledge of rail operations, maintenance, asset management, signalling, train control, telecommunications, and systems integration.
- Relevant professional registrations and memberships.
- Understanding of project management, governance, and engineering assurance.
- Track record leading multidisciplinary projects, delivering within budget, and meeting client expectations.
- Strong communication, collaboration, coordination, and business-development capability.
Workplace
- The posting describes flexible working arrangements under a hybrid work model.
Benefits
- The employer describes flexible arrangements, 18 weeks of universal paid parental leave, and an inclusive workplace with professional networks, mentoring, and sponsorship programs.
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