Title:  Senior Systems Assurance Officer

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 Role
Our Rail team are looking for a Senior Systems Assurance Engineer (Sydney) to provide capability for the systems and safety assurance activities required to successfully deliver working within the John Holland Rail Engineering & Integration (REI) team on a newly awarded project based in Sydney.

Responsibilities of the role include:
-Plan and implement systems and safety assurance activities within the engineering, procurement and construction frameworks on tenders and projects, particularly mass transit and metro project, including planning, analysis, hazards management, RAM management, requirements management, development of engineering safety cases and reporting of systems assurance outcomes
-Deliver the systems assurance works within budget, time, quality, contractual and regulatory standards, monitor and guide workflow, setting daily, weekly, and long-term project goals
-Demonstrating leadership in engineering safety risk management, safety compliance and auditing, and ensure legislative, pre-contract and commercial obligations are met
-Stakeholder management, including with clients, operators, independent safety assessors and the Regulator.
-Interpreting and scoping project requirements
-Carry out key project processes, documentation, and assurance evidence ensuring alignment with verification and validation strategy across the project lifecycle.
-Managing requirements and assurance criteria to comply with the project’s requirements and standards as well as meet the project objectives (outputs, timescale and cost)
 

The Successful Applicant 

To succeed in this role, it is essential that you have relevant tertiary qualifications, together with knowledge of contemporary systems engineering and assurance practices specifically CENELEC standards for safety‑related systems (i.e. EN 50126 suite of standards and EN 62267).   You will need significant experience in project-based systems assurance management, preferably within the rail industry.  Recent experience in Sydney Metro systems and safety assurance framework preferred. 
This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a collaborative team environment to achieve successful outcomes and committed to lifelong learning and continuous improvement.
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.

What’s in it for you?

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 generous 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.

Flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.