Principal Engineer - Communications and Control Systems

Metro Trains Sydney; Sydney; In loco; AUD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Fitness Passport discounts and access

Vehicle Leasing options

Employee Recognition Awards

EAP services including confidential建议

Descrizione del lavoro

Metro Trains Sydney, Australia’s private operator of driverless services on the M1 Northwest and Bankstown Line, seeks a Principal Engineer – Communications & Control Systems to lead asset strategy and technical assurance for operational technology assets.

You will provide engineering leadership across maintenance, asset planning, network expansion, and system performance while mentoring engineers and driving data-driven improvements in a safety-critical rail environment.

Competenze

• Degree-qualified engineering professional with significant experience in Communications and Control Systems in rail or a safety-critical environment.
• Strong expertise in asset management, lifecycle engineering, and maintenance strategy.
• Experience in live OT environments with configuration management and system integration.
• Ability to translate complex engineering issues for stakeholders and lead root-cause analysis.

Mansioni

• Provide technical ownership and asset stewardship of Communications & Control Systems and Cybersecurity Infrastructure.
• Lead asset strategy, maintenance planning, and lifecycle decisions.
• Provide technical leadership for project scoping, defect resolution, engineering change management.
• Lead system governance and approvals, including configuration and access management.
• Monitor system performance, conduct RCA, and drive data-driven improvements.
• Ensure compliance with safety, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop engineering procedures and training materials to support safe operation.
• Manage technical deliverables, contractor performance, and alignment with business objectives.
• Lead technical assurance activities across OT and project environments.
• Mentor engineers and foster continuous improvement.

Conoscenze

Engineering leadership

Asset management

Maintenance planning

Reliability improvement

Risk management

Configuration management

System governance

Formazione

Engineering degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Principal Engineer - Communications and Control Systems

Metro Trains Sydney (MTS) is the private operator and maintainer of the M1 Northwest and Bankstown Line, Australia’s first and only fully accessible, driverless train service. We are helping redefine rail in Sydney through safe, seamless and reliable services, supported by world-class technology, a high performing team and a growing network that is transforming the way people move across the city.

About the role

As Principal Engineer – Communications & Control Systems, you will act as the discipline expert for a broad portfolio of operational technology and infrastructure assets. You will provide strategic engineering leadership across maintenance, asset planning, network expansion, technical assurance and system performance, while partnering closely with internal stakeholders, service providers and project teams.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical ownership and asset stewardship of Communications (COM) & Control Systems (CCS) and Cybersecurity Infrastructure (CSI), ensuring system integrity, availability, and performance across the rail network.
• Lead asset strategy, maintenance planning, and lifecycle decision making for COM, CCS and CSI.
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for project scoping, defect resolution, engineering change management, and asset acceptance.
• Lead system governance and approvals, including configuration control, access management, and engineering decisions impacting operational technology (OT) environments.
• Monitor system performance and reliability, conducting root cause analysis (RCA) and implementing practical, data-driven improvement initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory, safety, and technical governance requirements, including configuration management and standards adherence.
• Develop and maintain engineering procedures, technical instructions, and training materials to support consistent and safe system operation.
• Manage technical deliverables, contractor performance, and engineering outcomes, ensuring alignment with business objectives, safety requirements, and service expectations
• Lead technical assurance activities, including testing, verification, and compliance across operational and project environments.
• Mentor engineers and support capability development, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement across the discipline.

About you

You’re a degree qualified engineering professional with significant experience in Communications and Control Systems within rail or another complex, safety critical environment. You bring strong technical capability across asset management and lifecycle engineering, including maintenance strategy, reliability improvement, performance optimisation and risk management.

You also have solid experience working within live operational technology environments, with a good understanding of configuration management, system integration and governance requirements. In addition, you’ve supported major infrastructure or operational projects through activities such as technical assurance, design reviews, defect management, engineering change control and asset acceptance.

Alongside your technical depth, you understand the importance of safety, compliance and engineering governance, and are comfortable applying standards, assurance processes and risk-based decision making in practice. You’re also able to investigate faults, lead root cause analysis and use data to drive practical system improvements.

Just as importantly, you’re an effective communicator who can work across technical and non-technical stakeholders, manage contractor and technical interfaces, and translate complex engineering issues into clear, actionable outcomes aligned to operational and business needs.

Why apply?

This is an opportunity to step into a highly influential engineering role where your expertise will directly shape asset performance, safety and long term network reliability. You will work across critical infrastructure, support major projects, and help drive engineering excellence in a fast paced and high impact environment.

If you are an experienced engineering leader with deep technical knowledge in communications and control systems, we would welcome your application.

What’s on Offer

We are offering apermanentopportunity with access to a wide range of benefits:

• Fitness Passport discounts and access to gyms across NSW
• Vehicle Leasing options
• Employee Recognition Awards
• EAP services including confidential advice

The future of train travel, today. That’s what we intend to deliver. And it all starts with our people. Positive and upbeat with an ‘anything-is-possible’ approach, the MTS team is rewriting expectations.

So, if you are energised and enthused by working in a challenging, future focused, vibrant, can-do environment, then let’s talk!

MTS is an equal employment opportunity employer. We are committed to an inclusive workforce and welcome applications of candidates from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.