AddressRole: Signalling and Infratructure Lead
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Role ID: 2024-2367
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The primary responsibility of the Signaling and Infrastructure Lead - ANZ is to manage the bids and projects portfolio for the discipline, including the tender and projects processes for scope. This would include building and managing a team to be accountable for the deployment of tenders and project delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Execution of the projects in the portfolio to enable creation of optimal and profitable value for Ricardo.
- Manage and deploy Tender and Bid Deliverables
- Execution and Management of Business development initiatives encompassing Signalling, Infrastructure, and Rolling Stock integration services securing new projects
- This includes providing Signalling and Infrastructure concept design services with a focus on operational and maintenance considerations. Evaluating and introducing products relevant to Signalling and Infrastructure market segment from the broader market and from the Ricardo portfolio.
- Interface with the wider BU management team to report, and mange risks and various issues regarding tenders and projects within the services scope.
- Building and leading a projects team that is accountable for Quality, Cost, Delivery and Performance.
- Champion the implementation of Signalling and Infrastructure Processes across the portfolio.
- Robust understanding of System engineering and integration services across the railway industry with a focus on automatic train operations and control
- Knowledgeable and demonstrable success in Project and Bid Management
- Demonstrated experience in a Senior Leadership position, in the development of a services organisation.
- Good Commercial Acumen, ability to maximise opportunities that benefits both client and Ricardo
- Strong Influencing and Negotiation skills, experience in a Business Development role
- Build and drive productive, collaborative and cooperative relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, partners and service providers to ensure best practice project management
- Customer Focused mindset able to provide direct strategic advice and guidance to the clients best practice from a rail network perspective.
- Project management, systems engineering, concept development, operations & maintenance advice
- Knowledge and demonstrable experience of appropriate project management techniques
- Highly numerate and analytical, with an ability to translate project and business data into tangible insights and recommendations
- Good awareness of project management processes and data, able to support others in developing these skillsets
Requirements:
- - 15+ years in railway rail infrastructure management and/or rail consultancy
- - 10+ years’ experience in a externally facing leadership role
- - Tertiary degree qualifications in Engineering
- - Additional Diploma or Master of Project Management preferred
- - Excellent relationship building, communication and interpersonal skills
- - Ability to provide situational leadership, seeking opportunities for the wider business
- - Team Management & Staff Development
- - Sales and Business Development
- - Pricing and valuing products and services
- - Systems Integration
- - Comprehensive understanding of the ANZ Public Procurement process
- - Extensive experience in numerous contracting models including, Alliancing, Design & Construct, Operate & Maintain, Consulting, SaaS and JVs
- - Cultural awareness – International work experience
- - Superior decision-making and problem-solving skills
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
