Associate - Signaling

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Role Summary

The WSP Australian & New Zealand Signalling Group is an integrated team based in Bangalore, Australia and New Zealand. With over 90% of our project work based in New South Wales and Victoria our Signalling Groups are aligned to these regions. WSP Signalling Bangalore along with Queensland, Western Australia and New Zealand resources are fully integrated into either the New South Wales or Victorian teams. As a Signalling Associate(Discipline Lead) and Bangalore Signalling Team leader a dual role will be required, performing local leadership and also performing the role of a senior member integrated to either the New South Wales or Victorian Signalling Group.

As the team leader of the WSP Bangalore Signalling Group, the role is to perform line management duties for the Bangalore staff and work in partnership with the New South Wales and Victorian Technical Executives to undertake the following,

Key Responsibilities
- Create and maintain solid relationships with the New South Wales and Victorian teams to build, improve and train the group to meet current and future pipeline,
- Through targeted recruitment increase the Bangalore signalling team to build the capacity and skill set of the New South Wales and Victorian signalling groups in line with set KPI’s,
- Maintain and improve the current signalling group through mentorship and continuous improvement activities,
- Undertake check and verification of detailed signalling design works,
- Create and maintain solid relationships with the UK and Canadian WSP signalling teams based in Bangalore to ensure best practice is shared and adopted,

Additional Responsibilities

Bangalore Team Lead
- Manage the team resources and liaise with the New South Wales and Victorian Technical Executives to provide appropriate resources for project requirements.
- Responsible for identifying development and training needs for team members.
- Undertake team individual performance appraisals.
- Oversee team competency requirements & assessments.
- Establish and nurture relationships with the signalling teams from other lead countries such as UK, Sweden and Canada to share best working practices and consider resource sharing.

Associate Signalling Engineer
- To provide support in the production of proposals
- Provide design, checker and verification roles for Australian and NZ projects.
- Undertake role of discipline team leader for particular projects
- Acting as the specialism Subject Matter Expert (SME) and lead Technical Advisor (TA) within the business and externally to clients and partners.
- To produce signalling specifications and other relevant documentation
- To undertake and manage IDC checks associated with signalling design.
- Assist with internal and external audits.

Key Competencies / Skills:
Management and leadership of people:

- Able to lead and motivate people
- Establish and maintain working relationships

Planning
- Able to plan the following,
- Recruitment to meet pipeline and competency requirements in partnership with the New South Wales and Victorian technical executives
- Competency improvements to meet future pipeline

Communication
- Able and confident to present to clients and others.
- Good written skills, essential for the production of reports.
- Team Building
- Able to establish good relationships and rapport with other team members and with other disciplines and peers.

Innovation
- Able to adopt and adapt new techniques when required.

Desirable:

- Registration with the IRSE is desirable.

**Qualifications**:

- Significant experience in production and delivery of complex design solutions utilizing a variety of existing and new technologies
- Multiple formal rail Signalling design competency approvals from Accredited Rail Transport Operators and related competency frameworks as a Subject Matter Expert in design, verification and approval competencies, preferably:

- IRSE (PDE) and MTM; and
- One other (e.g. V/Line, ARTC or TfNSW)
- Effective team leadership, client interface, budget and programme management skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills are essential
- Broad experience of interlocking design and signalling scheme development including signalling overrun risk assessments
- Extensive design knowledge on Signalling Principles, RRI/SSI/ERTMS/Micro lock works
- In-depth knowledge of standards and legislation
- CAD literate in Micro-station (Should be able to check the various CAD standards in Micro station)
- Experience:
**Associate/Discipline Lead-**
- About 15 years of experience on the Railway Signalling of which at least 2-5 years experience on the Australian Rail Signalling projects is preferable.