Civil Engineer

About us

At Sydney Trains, our rail services keep Sydney moving by putting our customers at the centre of everything we do. We work with our local communities to deliver safe, timely and efficient rail services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Our trains and network are evolving to meet the needs of our customers now and well into the future. We’re continuing to integrate technological innovations that help us deliver a smarter and more sustainable network.

The opportunity

The Civil Engineer provides high level civil and structural engineering advice and support across Sydney Trains and NSW Trains in order to maintain the technical integrity of the assets and compliance to standards. The role facilitates and undertakes detailed asset inspections, defect identification and classification and manages the defect rectification works through the use of external service providers.

• Undertake detailed asset inspections and failure investigations and interpret technical inspection reports, perform failure analysis, identify symptoms and root cause of failures and provide detailed asset condition or failure analysis reports.
• Facilitate and manage the repair of damaged assets to reduce equipment downtime and customer impact, including the triaging of requests for repair and implementation of a staged and end-to-end assessment and repair process.

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About you

You’re a hands on civil engineer with the ability to managing competing priorities and manage internal and external stakeholders to achieve objectives.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience in a civil engineering discipline or experience in civil and structural asset maintenance.
• Demonstrated experience in site inspections and diagnosis of faults in structures and in the delivery of maintenance repairs to steel and concrete structures.
• Proven ability to coordinate and manage external service providers to deliver maintenance to mission critical equipment and recommend appropriate corrective actions to expedite repairs.

Salary and benefits

The salary for this position is RC6 ($127,559-$141,442) plus superannuation and leave loading.

Sydney Trains offers its employees challenging and rewarding work with opportunities for career progression, learning and development and work-life balance.

Other benefits include:

• Free travel on Government trains, buses and ferries

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Interested?

Joining Transport for NSW, you’ll have access to a range of unique government benefits in a flexible work environment like no other. If you’re ready to step into this meaningful and rewarding role, we want to hear from you!

How to apply

To apply hit ‘apply now’ and complete the application form and upload your CV

Applications close: 11:59pm, Sunday 9th October 2022

We are the community we serve

We are committed to being an inclusive, diverse and flexible workplace where differences are valued. We welcome people of all backgrounds, experience and abilities.

We enable our people to work in ways that work for them with flexible work policies, offerings and practices. Working virtually and from different locations including regional locations, staggering work hours and job sharing are just some of the ways our people can work flexibly. We’re proud to be recognised as a FlexReady Certified employer and winners of the ‘Best Remote Work Strategy’ for our hybrid ways of working at the Australian HR Awards 2022.

Please contact the Talent Specialist below if you require any adjustments to be made to how you interact with us throughout the recruitment process or would like to discuss flexible work options.

For any enquiries, please email Marney Hamilton at MARNEY.HAMILTON@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.

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We’re certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace

Our flexible work practices and policies for parental leave, employee and family wellbeing and family care enable us to provide genuine support for our people to thrive at work and at home.

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For permanent opportunities, it is a requirement that you are a Permanent Resident or Citizen of Australia. To be considered for these roles you must be 18 years of age. Applicants will need to complete merit based selection activities and will be subject to satisfactory medical, drug & alcohol and criminal record checks as part of the selection process. Please note that an eligibility list may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently become vacant may be filled using this eligibility list (where the vacancy is within 60 minutes travelling time).