Rollingstock Lead Engineer

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups specialising in public transport and sustainable mobility. With over 10,300 employees, SYSTRA's mission is to design safe and sustainable transport solutions to bring people together, develop social inclusion and facilitate access to employment, education and leisure throughout the world.

For 65 years, the Group has been working alongside cities and regions to contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their infrastructure and transport systems, throughout the life cycle of their projects. SYSTRA is involved from the earliest stages of design through to the testing, deployment and maintenance phases. The company provides all its services in over 80 countries worldwide and generates 74% of its turnover internationally. With its new services, SYSTRA supports its clients and partners in their digital, ecological and energy transition, in order to invent the mobility of tomorrow.

Context

It is rare to find an infrastructure project immune to budget and political cycles, but this one has a career horizon stretching all the way to 2086. We are looking for a Rollingstock Lead Engineer to join the Newcastle–Sydney HSR corridor—a 100% renewable, greenfield network that is setting a new global standard for engineering excellence.

Missions/Main Duties

In this role, you will be the primary link between our world-class infrastructure and the trains that run on it. You will own the technical interface for the programme, ensuring that every detail—from pantograph geometry to aerodynamic data—is perfectly reflected in the design of our tunnels, tracks, and depots.

Profile/Skills

• Lead rollingstock technical integration for the programme during the ECI phase.

• Act as the primary interface between the infrastructure design team and the rolling stock procurement process.

• Ensure all train technical parameters, such as vehicle gauge, axle loads, and braking performance, are accurately reflected in infrastructure design.

• Develop and maintain the rollingstock interface register and the formal Vehicle / Infrastructure Interface Document (VII).

• Capture and communicate design constraints from rolling stock to infrastructure, including tunnel envelopes, OLE contact wire height, and platform edge geometry.

• Provide operational performance modelling input, including timetable feasibility, energy consumption, and station dwell time assumptions.

• Support infrastructure sizing decisions for traction power, stabling, and depot capacity.

• Advise the Project Owner on the infrastructure cost implications of different HSR train types, such as Velaro, AGV, or Shinkansen-derived platforms.

• Lead the integration of depot and stabling infrastructure requirements, including maintenance facility layouts and fuelling/servicing provisions.

• Co-ordinate with the Tunnel Ventilation and Fire & Life Safety Leads to confirm heat rejection and fire load assumptions for safety modelling.

• Ensure consistency between rolling stock performance data and safety case inputs, including emergency door operation parameters.

If you are ready to put the "greenest thing possible" on your CV and lead a technical legacy that moves the needle for decades to come, we want to hear from you.