Testing & Commissioning Superintendent

UGL; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (16 weeks)

Salary continuance insurance

Medibank health insurance

Development plan

Wellness program (AIA Vitality)

OneRewards discounts

Job summary

UGL is seeking an experienced Testing & Commissioning Superintendent to lead testing and commissioning activities on a major rail tunnel project in Australia. You will oversee site-based commissioning teams and ensure safe, efficient delivery aligned with client expectations and milestones.

Reporting to the Project Testing & Commissioning Manager, you will develop strategies, manage interfaces across disciplines, and drive a proactive safety culture while delivering documentation and handover

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership on major infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience in testing and commissioning across rail/tunnelling environments.
• Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and complex interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution of all testing and commissioning activities across the project.
• Supervise Testing & Commissioning Supervisors, engineers, subcontractors and specialist teams.
• Develop strategies, schedules and resource plans to support delivery objectives.
• Ensure activities meet project specs, procedures, standards and regulatory requirements.
• Prepare and review commissioning documentation and handover packages.
• Drive safety culture with pre-starts, risk reviews and compliance initiatives across fronts.
• Coordinate interfaces across disciplines and stakeholders.
• Oversee progress against schedules and manage risks and critical path items.
• Lead defect management, issue resolution and close-out for system integration.
• Provide regular reporting on progress, safety, risks and readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Testing & Commissioning

Project management

Stakeholder management

Safety management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

UGL is seeking an experienced and driven Testing & Commissioning Superintendent to lead the delivery of testing and commissioning activities on a major rail tunnel project. This is a key leadership role responsible for the overall planning, coordination, execution, and safe delivery of testing and commissioning works across multiple disciplines and project interfaces.

Reporting to the Project Testing & Commissioning Manager, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to site-based commissioning teams, ensuring all activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and in accordance with project requirements, client expectations, and project milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of all testing and commissioning activities across the project.
• Manage and supervise Testing & Commissioning Supervisors, engineers, subcontractors, and specialist commissioning teams.
• Develop and implement testing and commissioning strategies, methodologies, schedules, and resource plans to support project delivery objectives.
• Ensure all commissioning activities are undertaken in accordance with project specifications, procedures, standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee the preparation, review, and approval of commissioning documentation, including commissioning plans, test procedures, work method statements, SWMS, risk assessments, permits, and handover documentation.
• Drive a proactive safety culture by leading pre-starts, safety leadership activities, risk reviews, and compliance initiatives across all commissioning work fronts.
• Manage interfaces between testing and commissioning, construction, systems integration, operations, subcontractors, and client stakeholders.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary testing activities across rail systems, electrical, communications, signalling, mechanical, and tunnel infrastructure packages.
• Monitor commissioning progress against project schedules and proactively manage risks, constraints, and critical path activities.
• Lead defect management, issue resolution, and close-out processes to support successful system integration and project handover.
• Ensure accurate completion of test records, commissioning dossiers, verification documentation, and final handover packages.
• Provide regular reporting on commissioning progress, safety performance, risks, resource requirements, and project readiness.
• Support client engagement, audits, inspections, witness testing, and acceptance activities throughout the testing and commissioning lifecycle.
• Contribute to project planning and delivery strategies to achieve key commercial, operational, and project performance objectives.

About You

• Demonstrated experience in a Testing & Commissioning Superintendent, Manager, Senior Supervisor, or similar leadership role on major infrastructure, rail, transport, tunnelling, or complex construction projects.
• Proven capability leading large multidisciplinary testing and commissioning teams in complex, high-risk project environments.
• Strong understanding of testing and commissioning methodologies, systems integration, verification and validation processes, and project handover requirements.
• Extensive knowledge of safety management systems, permit-to-work processes, risk management, and safe systems of work.
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder interfaces across construction, engineering, operations, subcontractors, regulators, and client teams.
• Strong leadership, communication, and organisational skills with the ability to drive performance and accountability across multiple work fronts.
• Experience managing commissioning schedules, resource planning, and critical project milestones.
• Rail, tunnel, electrical, signalling, communications, mechanical systems, or integrated transport infrastructure experience will be highly regarded.
• Relevant trade qualification, engineering degree, or diploma in a related discipline.
• Previous experience delivering testing and commissioning activities within major rail or transport infrastructure projects is highly desirable.

About UGL

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.

Please note: As part of the recruitment process, relevant screening checks will be conducted. These may include reference checks, verification of the right to work in Australia, a national criminal history check, anti-money laundering checks, and a pre-employment medical assessment (including drug and alcohol screening).

Job Reference 268801

Discipline: Testing and Commissioning

Primary Location: Australia-QLD-Brisbane CBD & Inner Suburbs

Work Type: Full-time