Senior Systems Assurance Engineer - Logan & Gold Coast Faster Rail Project
Job Description
Senior Systems Assurance Engineer - Logan & Gold Coast Faster Rail Project
Queensland’s Most Complex Rail Program
UGL is home to one of Australia’s largest in-house engineering teams, delivering complex transport and infrastructure projects nationwide. As part of the CIMIC Group, we bring long term stability, technical depth and genuine career pathways.
Based out of the Brisbane office, your first assignment will be the Logan & Gold Coast Faster Rail (LGCFR) Project, a city shaping rail upgrade currently in detailed design and moving steadily toward construction. Commenced in 2024 and running for approximately 5 years, the project will expand the rail corridor from 2 to 4 tracks, upgrade stations, remove level crossings and future proof the network for ETCS Level 2 signalling.
Why this role
Develop career credibility on highly packaged, multi‑disciplinary programs.
Full lifecycle across requirements, assurance, verification and validation.
Open to Engineer / Senior / Principal‑level capability, depending on depth of experience.
Apply systems engineering in a practical, real‑world community enhancing delivery environment.
Strong pipeline of future projects across rail, transport, energy and renewables sectors.
About the role
In a systems assurance engineer role at UGL, you’ll provide systems engineering and systems assurance support across major infrastructure projects. On LGCFR, this role will focus on helping the project clearly define what needs to be delivered, making sure risks are understood, and ensuring the right evidence is in place to prove requirements are met.
You’ll work closely with design disciplines, safety, assurance, interfaces and project teams, supporting everything from stakeholder needs and requirements definition, through design assurance, verification and validation, and into testing, commissioning and in‑service readiness.
Key responsibilities
Lead stakeholder needs analysis and manage requirements from definition through to traceability.
Support and embed systems assurance processes, ensuring requirements are understood and applied across the project.
Plan and deliver verification and validation (V&V) activities, including compliance matrices, reviews and reporting.
Manage interfaces, integration and cross‑discipline alignment to support safe and compliant design outcomes.
Contribute to assurance and regulatory evidence, including audits, safety certification and overall fitness‑for‑purpose.
You will make sure complex systems are clearly defined, properly integrated, verified, and proven to work.
What we offer
- Access our OneRewards Discount Program.
- Discounted Medibank health insurance.
- Participate in our Wellness Program with AIA Vitality.
- Benefit from 16 weeks of paid primary parental leave.
- Complimentary salary continuance insurance.
- Shape your career with an Individual Development Plan.
About you
Experience in a similar systems and/or systems & safety assurance on complex infrastructure or construction projects.
Knowledge of requirements management, verification and compliance processes.
Familiarity with systems engineering standards (ISO 15288, EN 50126/8/9, EN 61508).
Able to manage multiple technical and assurance activities in parallel.
Strong communicator, comfortable working independently in a fast‑paced project environment with a range of stakeholders.
If your background includes Systems Engineering, Systems Assurance, Safety Assurance or Technical Assurance, and you’re keen to work on major infrastructure projects that genuinely benefit from good systems thinking, we’d love to hear from you.
About Us
UGL is a respected of end-to-end engineering, construction, operation and maintenance services within various sectors including rail, transport, communications, oil and gas, power, renewables, resources, water and defence. We partner with some of the world’s largest blue-chip companies, government agencies, private enterprises, and public institutions. As a member of the CIMIC Group of companies, we value diversity in our team’s backgrounds, ideas, work styles.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourage applications from people with disabilities, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, mature aged workers and individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.
Please note that relevant screening checks will be conducted as part of the recruitment process. These may include a national criminal history check and for you to complete a pre-employment medical.
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