Join us as a Principal Rail Systems Engineer within our Rail Business Unit in Brisbane. This role acts as the organisation’s authoritative specialist in signalling, train control, telecommunications, control systems, and systems integration. In this opportunity, you will provide senior technical leadership across the planning, design, integration, assurance, and delivery of complex rail systems. The Principal Engineer ensures engineering excellence, leads multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring rail systems meet performance, safety, and regulatory requirements throughout the asset lifecycle.
In this role, you will:
- Provide expert guidance on signalling, train control, telecommunications, SCADA, traction power interfaces, and systems integration across major rail projects.
- Lead requirements development, system architecture, interface definition, verification, validation, and configuration management.
- Oversee safety assurance activities in accordance with EN50126/8/9, CENELEC, and national rail safety legislation.
- Chair technical reviews, approve engineering deliverables, and ensure compliance with standards, codes, and organisational frameworks.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate technical and operational risks across the project lifecycle.
- Review and approve complex rail systems designs, ensuring integration across signalling, rollingstock, electrical, civil, and operational domains.
- Identify, develop, and pursue new business opportunities with both internal and external clients.
- Coach engineers, lead capability uplift initiatives, and support succession planning.
- Drive adoption of emerging technologies (ETCS, CBTC, digital train control, condition monitoring, automation).