Senior Project Engineer, Signalling

UGL Pty Limited; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Salary continuance insurance

Medibank health insurance

Development plan

Wellness program

OneRewards discount program

Job summary

UGL Pty Limited in Beenleigh, near Brisbane, is seeking a Signalling Senior Project Engineer for the Logan Gold Coast Faster Rail program. You will lead upgrades and commissioning of signalling systems, manage scope and delivery, and ensure safety and governance across the project.

The role demands a minimum of 7 years in rail signalling, strong planning and risk-management skills, and the ability to drive multi-disciplinary teams toward on-time, within-budget outcomes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in rail signalling required.
• Experience managing multi-million dollar scopes and budgets.
• Ability to review design and construction plans with constructability input.
• Demonstrated risk management and progress reporting.
• Queensland Rail competency or related qualifications preferred but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage upgrade and commissioning of railway signalling infrastructure.
• Oversee scope, schedule, budget, quality, safety and compliance.
• Lead project setup, delivery and team task assignments.
• Review design docs, schedules, method statements and JSA.
• Monitor KPIs and progress against plan and cost.

Skills

Senior rail signalling

Project leadership

Risk management

Commercial planning

Design review input

Driver’s license (C Class)

Education

Engineering degree (Mech or Elec)

Job description

About UGL

At UGL, we are delivering some of Australia’s most significant infrastructure projects across rail, power, renewables, defence, resources, water and telecommunications. We are committed to building a better future through innovation, engineering excellence and collaboration.

We are currently seeking a Signalling Senior Project Engineer to join the Logan Gold Coast Faster Rail (LGCFR) Project, a transformative rail infrastructure program that will redefine passenger rail travel between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Delivered by the ActivUs Alliance, this landmark project will expand the rail corridor from two to four tracks between Kuraby and Beenleigh, while delivering major station upgrades, enhanced signalling systems and improved network capacity for South East Queensland. This role will be based at our Beenleigh project office.

Key responsibilities

• Managing scope including upgrade of existing railway signalling infrastructure, and construction and commissioning of new railway signalling infrastructure
• Managing and monitoring the completion of the project to ensure programme, budget, quality, environmental and contractual obligations are achieved safely, taking prompt corrective action where required
• Managing the effective set-up, delivery and completion of the project including establishing relevant systems
• Reviewing design and construction plans, schedules, temporary works designs, method statements and job safety analysis and quality
• Effectively assigning tasks to project team members to deliver the required outputs to agreed specifications
• Monitoring KPIs and productivity analysis against programme and budget as well as undertaking other administrative duties as required

About You

• Minimum 7 years’ experience with the Rail Signalling Industry - ESSENTIAL
• Manage self and team within discipline to deliver work between $10 and $50M
• Proven ability to develop methodologies to ensure compliance with scope of works and technical criteria
• Demonstrated commercial experience to include planning up to 3 months ahead, weekly reporting on progress against plan and cost, reporting on risk and developing and implementing risk treatment plans
• Tertiary Qualifications in Engineering (Mech or Elec.) at degree level will be preferred but not essential
• Queensland Rail Engineering Statement of Competency will be preferred but not essential
• Experience in reviewing design documentation, providing constructive critic (‘constructability’ input) and implementing final designs.
• Australian C Class Driver’s License

Employer Information

As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team’s backgrounds, ideas, work styles. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.

What we offer

• Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.
• Complimentary salary continuance insurance.
• Discounted Medibank health insurance.
• Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.
• Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.
• Access our OneRewards Discount Program.