Senior - Overhead Wiring Engineer - Melbourne

Your Opportunity:

Due to the continued success of our Asia Pacific operations and the strong pipeline of work forecast in VIC, we currently have an exciting opportunity for a Overhead Wiring Engineer to join our Rail team in Melbourne.

Provide high quality engineering design and consultancy services to the rail industry in Victoria. This position requires the candidate to prepare overhead wiring designs from feasibility, through concept and ultimately to full detail design.

The candidate will be required to undertake layout design, sectioning, allocation design and provide technical support to construction teams.

• Maintain, develop and retain the highest standard of OHW discipline technical skill
• Review or verify and interpret engineering drawings and reports and provide technical input into a diverse range of projects and ensure that work produced complies with quality system and client requirements
• Seek information to understand client needs and effectively anticipate and meet client needs and encourage client focus in colleagues
• Define and implement action plans to respond to client feedback and exceed client expectations whilst taking responsibility for client satisfaction and loyalty
• Assist with OHW design teams on complex design projects
• Demonstrate technical proficiency in OHW design and engineering
• Assist with the delivery and commercial outcome of OHW design schemes

Key requirements/accountabilities for this role are encompassed but are not limited to:

• Proven years' experience working in the Rail sector
• Typically, 5 to 10+ years' experience in a similar role
• Bachelors Degree (Engineering) or Equivalent
• Chartered status CPENG (or working towards)
• Experience producing OHW design work and delivery in Australia (preferable) and/or overseas
• Demonstrated competence in providing technical expertise across a broad range of projects
• High level skills in applying safety in design practices and processes.
• Demonstrated multiple instances of delivering best client outcomes/options which have saved the client costs/time

Knowledge of different OHW systems, such as AC, DC, Heavy Rail & Light Rail would be an advantage but not a pre-requisite.

We are a collaborative team of experts that thrives on challenge and unconventional thinking. Channeling our curiosity into creating progressive solutions to complex issues is both our mission and our passion.

Join us in doing purposeful, sustainable work that helps shape our communities and the future!

What we will offer you:

At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed to help you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. Our People and Culture and Diversity working groups within the Rail business work to actively monitor and improve our working culture ensuring our people remain the centre of everything we do.

Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include:

• Flexible working location and hours
• Global mobility
• Parental leave & purchased additional annual leave
• Corporate employee discounts and offers
• Salary continuance insurance
• Wellness at work & social club
• Workplace giving /volunteering
• Employee reward & recognition program
• Professional and technical development opportunities

Inspired by Diversity, Driven by Inclusion…

Discover a forward-thinking culture that incorporates some conventional yet non-negotiable qualities - like respect, integrity and trust. We welcome to the table all perspectives, strengths, skills, creeds and genders because we know that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results.

We design infrastructure for diverse communities and understand the value and importance of a diverse team. We welcome to the table all perspectives, strengths, skills, creeds and genders because we know that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results.

About us:

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions, and engineering projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. wsp.com/au

WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.