Rail SCADA Real‑Time Systems Engineer – Sydney

Westbury Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual performance reviews

Professional development

Health & wellbeing initiatives

Employee Assistance Program

Company social events

Job summary

Hitachi Rail is seeking a proactive SCADA Systems Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. You will translate project requirements into SCADA design, support interfaces, and maintain configurations to ensure reliable operational data presentation.

You will collaborate with product teams, system engineers, testers, and commissioning teams to resolve technical issues and drive system integration, testing, and commissioning activities, ensuring alignment with Hitachi standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in SCADA systems engineering within complex rail or infrastructure environments.
• Hands-on with Hitachi Rail in-house SCADA product.
• Knowledge of SCADA architecture, alarms, events, data acquisition, and monitoring.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve issues.
• Experience in system integration, testing, and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Translate product features, system engineering, and project requirements into SCADA design and implementation outputs.
• Support SCADA interface definition and integration with related control, monitoring, communications, and operational systems.
• Develop and maintain SCADA configuration, including alarms, events, graphics, operator workstation functionality, and operational data presentation.
• Support system integration, factory testing, site testing, commissioning, and defect resolution.
• Provide technical support to project engineering, testing, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Maintain SCADA design consistency, configuration control, and alignment with internal product standards.
• Act as a key technical link between the project delivery team and the Hitachi SCADA product team.

Skills

SCADA systems engineering

Hitachi SCADA product

SCADA architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

System integration & testing

Technical documentation

Education

Systems Engineering degree

Electrical Engineering degree

Control Systems degree

Information Technology degree

Tools

Hitachi SCADA product

Job description

Hitachi Rail is seeking a proactive SCADA Systems Engineer based in Sydney, Australia. You will translate project requirements into SCADA design, support interfaces, and maintain configurations to ensure reliable operational data presentation.

You will collaborate with product teams, system engineers, testers, and commissioning teams to resolve technical issues and drive system integration, testing, and commissioning activities, ensuring alignment with Hitachi standards.