Project Controls System Specialist

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Suburban Rail Loop Authority

**Salary**: $109,730 - $132,764

Occupation: Engineering

Reference: 6503

Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) is an integrated transport infrastructure and precincts planning project that will deliver a 90km rail line linking every major train service from the Frankston Line to the Werribee Line via Melbourne Airport, as well as investment in the suburbs, better connecting Victorians to jobs, retail, education, health services and each other. Suburban Rail Loop Authority (SRLA) is the statutory body established to plan all elements of the project, procure builders, develop structure planning for SRL Precincts and oversee construction and the other changes that will help transform Melbourne and Victoria.

SRL is more than a rail project. It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity to plan for and prepare our city and state to meet the needs of future Victorians, and we can't do it alone. We are on the lookout for people with drive, expertise, fresh ideas and new perspectives to deliver Victoria's biggest ever infrastructure project. You will be part of history in the making, and while we're at it, we will be shaping your future too.

**About the opportunity**:
Are you passionate about developing systems that are reliable, user-friendly, and continually evolving to meet the needs of a complex, large-scale infrastructure program?

Welcome to the Suburban Rail Loop Authority, where we’re transforming Victoria’s transport future with one of the state’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.

As a Project Controls Systems Specialist, you’ll be the cornerstone of ensuring our systems are robust, reliable, and ready for action. Working both collaboratively and autonomously, you’ll directly support the Project Controls System and Reporting Manager while liaising with stakeholders across the organisation to optimise processes and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Reporting to the Project Controls System and Reporting Manager, your key responsibilities will include:

- Maintaining and enhancing the Project Controls systems and tools
- Ensuring the integrity and reliability of the Project Controls systems and resolve system issues in a timely manner
- Gathering requirements for the implementation and improvement of the Project Controls system including configuration, design, user acceptance testing and training activities
- Liaising with the Project Controls System and Reporting Manager and key Project Controls stakeholders across the organisation to identify opportunities for improving the performance of the Project Controls systems
- Assist in the generation of reports during project reporting periods, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery of data
- Contributing to Suburban Rail Loop Authority system implementation ensuring maximum adoption of the system

This is a permanent, full-time role. You will work in a hybrid work model with access to a range of flexible working arrangements.

For more information, please refer to the position description.

**About you**:

- Extensive experience in delivering project controls services for complex, large-scale projects, combined with a strong interest in data analysis, analytics, and reporting
- Excellent analytical and conceptual skills to address problems, identify creative ideas linking to innovation, pay attention to fine details, identify gaps in information and consider practical aspects of plans and activities
- Ability to listen to customers, refine business requirements, and define and design technical solutions to help the business meet its objectives within the agreed enterprise architecture
- Ability to set clearly defined objectives and priorities, regularly review and adjust them, establish systems and procedures to guide work and track progress, recognise actual and potential barriers and determine ways to overcome them
- Ability to manage incidents and gather information and assess issues from multiple angles to devise practical solutions in a timely manner, understand and meet stakeholders' fundamental needs within their organisational contexts and innovatively resolve their issues to achieve outcomes
- Ability to work collaboratively within a team and with business stakeholders, and provide training and support to users on system and reporting tools
- Passionate about optimising business processes
- Proficient in enterprise data consumption, visualisation and reporting using Power BI (desirable)

**Why join us**:

- The opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking public transport initiative
- A collaborative, multidisciplinary work environment with experts from various fields
- Career growth opportunities within a highly respected authority
- Generous leave entitlements
- An emphasis on work-life balance
- High-performing team environment
- Equal opportunity employer
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- Committed to safety and wellbeing
- Training and dev