Systems Engineer

About John Holland

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do.

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Project

Gold Coast Light Rail has transformed public transport on the Gold Coast, helping create an integrated network that connects more people to more places in one of Australia's most dynamic and fastest growing cities.

John Holland is GoldlinQ's nominated design and construction contractor for GCLR3, to extend the existing light rail network by 6.7kms from Broadbeach to Burleigh Heads, including eight new light rail stations, two new light rail-bus connections, and intersection upgrades along the alignment.

Jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland governments, and the City of Gold Coast, this city-shaping project will link communities to business centres, shopping, dining, education and medical facilities and cater to the Gold Coast's expected population growth in the coming decades.

About the Role

We are currently looking for an experienced Systems Engineer to join our Rail Engineering division based at our Gold Coast Light Rail project, based in the Gold Coast, QLD. Reporting to the Systems Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for performing Verification and Validation management activities through each project phase, ensuring every requirement is addressed progressively through design and implementation with suitable evidence.

This is a long-term opportunity to join our Rail Engineering team at John Holland where you’ll initially support our GCLR3 project.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the development and update of Systems Engineering plans
• Perform requirements management activities, including requirements analysis, definition, capture and management
• Support the develop and maintain System Breakdown Structures, systems architecture for rail infrastructure and Rail systems
• Perform systems interface management activities, including interface analysis, developing interface matrix, maintaining interface registers and preparing interface documents
• Support Safety Assurance activities, including hazard analysis, risk assessments and safety case development
• Support configuration management activities, including configuration identification, Configuration Control and status accounting
• Perform Verification and Validation management activities through each project phase, ensuring every requirement is addressed progressively through design and implementation with suitable evidence
• Effectively and proactively build strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

To be successful in this role:

• Bachelor degree in an Engineering / Systems discipline
• 5 years post graduate experience within a technically complex or high risk industry
• Applications of systems engineering and standards
• Experience using DOORS NG to manage requirements
• Experience of managing intra and extra organisational interfaces
• Management of systems based risk, including interface and integration risk
• Strong communication skills to effectively support Construction teams on the project. 

As part of the team, you help us deliver on our promise to transform lives

Your success is reflected in ours, so we're committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as different perspectives and ideas will deliver our long-term success. 

We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What's in it for you when you join John Holland?

We're about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From industry-leading leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

• Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.
• Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.
• Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you'll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.
• Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.
• Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.
• Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether its flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts, flexi-work, we're committed to helping our people work flexibly.