Assurance Director

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 an Assurance Director 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 guardian of the project’s technical and safety integrity. You will hold package-wide accountability for the assurance framework, ensuring that every design output is verified, validated, and traceable before it ever reaches the field. You will be the primary link to the safety regulator, driving a culture of continuous improvement across the entire design team.

Profile/Skills

• Hold package-wide accountability for the design quality management system, technical assurance, and safety assurance framework.

• Ensure all design outputs produced during the ECI are verified, validated, and traceable to the project's requirements baseline before release.

• Establish and maintain the Project Assurance Strategy, defining independent checking hierarchies and design review gates.

• Define the verification and validation methodology and manage the interface with the Owner's Independent Verifier.

• Lead the development and maintenance of the package's Safety Management System (SMS).

• Support the preparation of all safety case documentation, including Preliminary and System Safety Cases required for regulatory and governmental approval.

• Manage independent design checking and technical review processes across all disciplines, with a focus on tunnel structural design, fire life safety, traction power, and signalling.

• Act as the principal point of engagement with the safety regulator (ONRSR) and the Project Owner's Independent Verifier.

• Manage the submission, review, and close-out of safety and assurance actions throughout the ECI phase.

• Lead lessons-learned processes and assurance audits across the design team to identify systemic quality issues and drive corrective actions.

• Ensure the programme's assurance posture continuously improves as design matures through the ECI stages.

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.