Principal Installation Engineer
Hitachi Rail
Lead civil installation design for railway signaling, managing interfaces and delivery.
8 days ago ago
Expert & Leadership (13+ years), Experienced (8-12 years)
Full Time
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Field
Company Size
38,000 Employees
Service Specialisms
Rolling Stock Manufacturing
Rolling Stock Maintenance
Digital Signalling & Train Control
Ticketing & Payment Systems
Operations & Maintenance (O&M)
Turnkey Railway Solutions
Smart Mobility / Digital Asset Management
Sector Specialisms
Rolling Stock
Signalling
Turnkey Solutions
Operation
Service
Maintenance
High-Speed Rolling Stock
Express Trains
Role
What you would be doing
civil design
survey coordination
design standardization
quality assurance
risk assessment
budget control
- Provide valuable technical advice to the Engineering Design Manager, ensuring that designs meet standards and maintainability expectations.
- Coordinate the surveys in brown field projects to finalize cable routing layout installation design for construction
- Optimize competences, workloads, and resources management according to Company and market trends.
- Ensuring compliance with Quality Assurance (QA) and Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) requirements.
- Ensure capitalization and sharing of knowledge.
- Foster an environment that promotes continuous learning and skills enhancement of the team.
- Ensure efficiency through standardization of installation design procedures.
- Expertly apply Civil design principles, adhering to industry standards and engineering best practices, to include detailed drawings for construction, design reports, engineering calculations.
- Manage internal Engineering discipline interface (comms and signalling).
- Contribute to the assessment of risks and the establishment of effective controls.
- Elaborate, propose, and control the project delivery budget in accordance with the company strategy.
What you bring
project management
rpeq
civil engineering
rail safety
agile
data analysis
- Strong project management skills to execute initiatives successfully.
- An understanding of the rail safety act and the regulatory environment.
- 8+ years of hands-on Civil design experience.
- Ability to form and build key stakeholder relationships.
- Ability to work and lead in a multicultural environment.
- Tertiary qualifications in Civil Engineering.
- Demonstrate the ability to deliver comprehensive Civil & Installation design packages such as signalling & communications infrastructure, formation, earthworks, and drainage.
- Ability to lead and inspire teams, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
- RPEQ (Civil/Installation) mandatory
- Proven experience in successfully managing civil design projects in Rail.
- Familiar with installation principals within a railway environment.
- Ability to analyse data and draw insights to inform decision-making.
- Agile mindset, able to take prompt decisions in a challenging environment.
- Many opportunities to progress your career with training and development available.
- Be part of a Global Company that offers a great work life balance.
- Salary Continuance Insurance
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Company
Overview
- Wa (Harmony): We need to show respect to our colleagues, our suppliers, our clients and our stakeholders. We show respect to earn respect.
- Makoto (Sincerity): We should act with integrity in all we say and do, … we maintain fairness in all our dealings; our reputation is founded on how we go about our business.
- Kaitakusha – Seishin (Pioneering Spirit): We lead with ambition, seeking new challenges; we are not afraid to be flexible and adapt to the changing needs of our business.
100% Emission
Scope 1 & 2 by 2030
Target to achieve complete elimination of operational greenhouse gas emissions.
40% Reduction
Scope 3 by 2030
Aims to reduce emissions across the entire value chain, including supply chain and product use.
12% Decrease
Scope 1 & 2 in FY22
Achieved a significant drop in operational emissions in the fiscal year 2022.
90% Lower
COâ‚‚ in HS2 Fleet
Accredited with PAS 2080, demonstrating a major improvement in fleet efficiency.
- Carbon neutrality across business sites by 2030
- Carbon neutrality across entire value chain by 2050
- Net-zero across value chain by 2050 and net-zero operations by 2030
October 2023
DEI Global Committee Launched
The company established a global committee to oversee diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Membership Doubled
Employee Resource Group Growth
Employee Resource Group membership has grown significantly following leadership inclusion interventions.
78%
EDI Score
The company achieved a score of 78% on its EDI metrics following targeted wellbeing and inclusion initiatives.
- Gender-focused efforts: working to achieve a better gender balance
- UK/Ireland, Italy, Japan regional DEI programmes underway
- Defined focus areas include: Gender; Nationality, Ethnicity and Cultural Background; Multi‑Generations; LGBTQIA+; Disability and Neurodiversity
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