Manager Reliability Engineering

**Engaged team, well equipped to support, and improve performance.**:

- ** Large diverse operation**:

- **Permanent opportunity open to Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide and Brisbane locations**

**About us**

Pacific National (PN) is the largest private provider of diversified rail freight services in Australia. We haul a variety of freight including coal, intermodal containers, steel, and a range of bulk commodities and materials that keep the region's economy, businesses and households running. We are a company built on solid foundations and we are incredibly proud of the essential role we continue to play supporting Australia's supply chain. At Pacific National, we take great pride in delivering our best every day and have a relentless focus on customer service and place **safety above all else**.

We operate nationally with approximately 3,500 staff in over 90+ sites across Australia. We respect and care for the communities in which we operate and continue to evolve our community engagement and strengthen relationships through partnerships and investment. We are focused on reducing the carbon emissions of our business, while also enabling the reduction of carbon emissions in the broader supply chain to support the National targets.

**About the Role**

The Reliability Engineering and Train Systems Manager leads a team of Reliability Principals, Train Services Engineering Professionals and a Graduate Engineer all providing support to Maintenance, Assets and Operations. This role is accountable for providing reliability support across all fleets operated by Pacific National, improving the safety and reliability of rollingstock, and reducing whole of life costs. This role will engage and manage a number of internal and external stakeholder relationships and be required to develop and deliver reliability engineering and condition monitoring solutions including advanced analytics to establish the condition and performance of current assets, and identify areas for improvement.

**About You**

You will be looking for a challenging role that provides scope to make improvements. You will have strong leadership capability that aligns to our core values of make it simple, curiosity and share more. You will have strong communication and influencing skills to manage complex stakeholder partnerships and have an analytical and problem-solving focus. In addition, you will require:

- Experience working within Rail is highly regarded or experience within mining or oil and gas industries.
- Tertiary qualification in Engineering (Mechanical or Mechatronic). Postgraduate qualifications in Rolling Stock Engineering (desired).
- Extensive knowledge and experience in rolling stock performance, testing, technical details, and maintenance requirements.
- Extensive knowledge of condition monitoring systems, data analytics, strategy and vision for the development of solutions for the business.
- Demonstrated ability and experience in leading in teams of professionals providing technical and engineering services, with a focus on reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with all levels of the business and progress complex works across multiple groups to completion.
- Demonstrated experience working on reliability improvement programs

**The benefits**

At Pacific National we value diversity, inclusion and the contribution of each team member. Our values underpin our commitment to create an inclusive culture where everyone is accepted and valued for who they are, enabling everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.

When you join the Pacific National team, you'll be encouraged to take ownership of your career and we'll be there to support you with a range of exciting initiatives including:

- Industry leading programs focussed on your growth and career development.
- Paid parental leave up to 12 weeks for primary carers at full pay after 12 months service.
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
- A focus on your mental health and wellbeing through our Peer Connect program
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, administered by Benestar, offering confidential counselling services for employees and their eligible family members, paid for by us at no cost to you.
- Access to Unmind, a digital platform that gives you access to tools, training and exercises that will support your mental wellbeing.
- Discounted fitness and wellbeing benefits with membership to WhereFit, our wellbeing benefits partner
- Novated leasing and discounts on selected health insurance funds, travel, retail brands, vehicles and more.

We are proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer for women, and you can visit our Work180 page to find out more including a list of all of our benefits and policies.

We are seeking applicants who share our values: Make it simple, Share More, Kindness, Gratitude, Curiosity, and Own it. These values help us achieve strong connections with everyone we work with and play an important part