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Location: Our preference is Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, but we’re open to you being based wherever there are Aurizon offices.

Remuneration: Attractive salary on offer

We also offer:

• Development and growth opportunities
• Mentoring and coaching network

Aurizon is committed to a diverse workforce and we encourage female and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants to apply.

What we can offer you: At Aurizon, we believe the future is something to be excited about. We're delivering for a sustainable future; we're innovating ways to make our business better and we're driving the growth of our business. To successfully take our business forward, we need the best people, and our Employee Value Proposition helps reinforce the benefits and promising future we can offer:

• Work that rewards you – thrive both inside and outside of work
• We want you to grow – together we go further
• Great company, great people – Be yourself, be supported, be safe
• Make a positive impact on all of Australia – growing Australia & Australian communities
• Focused on a promising future – a strong base, new markets, innovation, and inclusivity brings incredible opportunity

About the role:

This is an influential role in an exciting time of technology transition that will see you leading the Locomotive Control System Engineering function for the largest heavy-haul rail operator in Australia.

As the Senior Locomotive Control System Engineer, you manage the operational, compliance and innovation requirements across full asset life cycle for the entire Aurizon Locomotive Fleet. This fleet runs Australia-wide and consists of an impressive 700+ locomotives and 15,000+ wagons – over $2 Billion in asset value!

We’re having a big impact on the interoperability of the Australian Railway industry, by challenging the status quo with new technology, competitive fleet strategies and diverse operating environments.  We also have a close eye on the future of rail (and decarbonisation) and we’re continuing to look at how we better leverage opportunities as we continue to lead the industry with our approach and application of technology. 

This position reports into the Locomotive Engineering Leader and is a key role for the entire organisation providing guidance, governance and future direction for the sustained motive power required by the Aurizon business. This role provides leadership for locomotive technical direction including standards, specifications, operational processes and ensures engineering outputs are consistent with legislative requirements. Drawing from industry experience this position provides key management of OEM and aftermarket service provider technical provision for life of asset support.

About you:

You’re a natural innovator with customer focused long term solution approach, providing leadership to collaborate with diverse teams of energised technical people. You lead by example, are intuitive and have a vested interest in development of upcoming talent to grow capability of the organisation.

You’re comfortable with ambiguity, you thrive on working in a dynamic and agile environment and you value stakeholder engagement, as this will be key to your success in supporting the businesses future Rollingstock requirements.  Your business and commercial acumen will enable you to balance cost, risk and performance for a competitive operational environment.

We want you to work within a cross functional team environment to solve complex problems, love what you do, generating new ideas and thinking, challenge the status quo and be challenged. We get that work can sometimes be a little on the serious side, so we also want you to embrace the humour and have some fun while delivering value.

In respects to the technicalities, you’ll need:

• Bachelor of Electrical/Electronics Engineering or equivalent (mandatory).
• Registered professional engineer under the Professional Engineer’s Act of Queensland (mandatory).
• 10+ years experience in control system integration.
• Demonstrated successful project/task execution.
• Proficient stakeholder communication skills
• Pragmatic and positive approach

About Aurizon

Aurizon is Australia’s largest rail freight operator Australian; we have a diverse rollingstock fleet that consists of 500+ locomotives and 14,000 wagons. Aurizon also manages an extensive truck transport fleet and service 3 Aurizon owned Ports with extensive fixed plant and equipment.

Each year, we transport more than 250 million tonnes of Australian commodities, connecting miners, primary producers, and industry with international and domestic markets.

We strive for a diverse, collaborative, creative and a high-performance culture that celebrates the contribution of every employee and provide opportunities for career development in a dynamic work environment.

To learn about us and our company values visit www.aurizon.com.au/careers