Senior Telecommunications Engineer

Principal Telecommunications Engineer – ETCS

Recruitment Engineering Services (RES) is partnering with Queensland Rail to find a Principal Telecommunications Engineer for its embedded ETCS Alliance team in Brisbane.

This is a senior technical authority role, providing specialist engineering and technical leadership on the telecommunications data networks that carry ETCS across the QR network, including Cross River Rail.

What you'll do

• Provide strategic technical leadership and advice to business groups, technical staff and stakeholders on ETCS network engineering
• Make sure standards and procedures are documented and applied in line with QR quality assurance and improvement principles
• Monitor and influence ETCS CRR telecommunications data system projects, making sure performance is delivered at competitive cost and integration into the QR data network doesn't compromise reliability, availability or maintainability
• Lead technical training and competency development for telecommunications office and field staff

What you'll bring

• Extensive knowledge of LAN/WAN data communications and physical network security, ideally in a large transport, logistics or critical infrastructure environment
• Strong OT and MPLS experience
• Strong skills in the design, configuration, construction, auditing, commissioning, integration and documentation of telecommunications network systems
• Deep understanding of telecommunications performance and integration principles, with strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Proven ability to give professional advice, lead technical teams and build capability in technical and non-technical people
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to drive accountability for performance and compliance
• Australian working rights

Desireable

• Experience in rail
• Cisco experience in addition to accreditations (CCNA / CCNP)
• Firewall experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical/Electronic)

Interested, or know someone who should be? Message me directly for a confidential conversation.