Metro Trains Melbourne,Fire Engineer Jobs in Melbourne, Victoria

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  high profile projects

ng 415,000 customers each day.
We aim to encourage the Melbourne community’s vibrant and ever evolving
lifestyles, by providing a seamless transport solution to keep individuals
connected.
Metro Trains Melbourne, is a consortium of three leading rail industry
organisations: Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation, Australia’s John Holland Group and
UGL Rail, a division of United Group Limited. These shareholders have a long
and successful history of working together, bringing their expertise to both
local and international rail industry projects.

The Role
This role will provide technical expertise on fire related design and
construction issues, specifically smoke management systems in tunnels on
specific Franchise, State rail and Third party projects. It will necessitate
the bringing together of Australian Standards and MTM’s requirements as an
operator, plus assisting the Public Transport Victoria. The role will need to
ensure OHS&E, quality, cost, time and scope parameters of the projects are
adequately defined and achieved.

Primary responsibilities
include:

• Liaison
  with Fire Authorities and other regulators on tunnel smoke extraction and
  fire safety issues and achieve agreement on the most appropriate course of
  action that meets pre-determined project requirements.
• Preparation
  of functional and technical fire engineering and tunnel smoke extraction
  specifications.
• Work
  effectively with relevant stakeholders internal and external to the
  business.
• Lead
  the detailed planning of design and construction activities for specific
  project activities, as assigned by the Project Manager.
• Identify
  work practices, methods and activities that can be altered or improved.
• Manage
  individual packages of work on the project, as assigned by the Project
  Manager, through the complete project life cycle.
• Work
  with multi-discipline teams, coordinating inputs and reaching a decision
  for the benefit of the project.
• Manage
  the administration and control of Contract Instructions, in conjunction
  with the Project Manager, ensuring that any change of scope, direction to
  proceed, site instruction etc. is given to the Contractor(s) in writing
  and correctly documented.

• You
  will be a seasoned professional, ideally with previous tunnel smoke
  management system and rail experience with engineering qualifications to
  match. You will be comfortable working across a large team and will
  demonstrate:
• Experience
  in the design, construction, management and/or maintenance of fire safety
  and smoke management systems for tunnel and underground based projects.
• Demonstrated
  experience in fire engineering and tunnel smoke extraction principles.
• In-depth
  understanding of the implementation of relevant fire safety legislation.
• Ability
  to prepare and assess functional and technical fire engineering and tunnel
  smoke extraction specifications.
• Ability
  to prepare detailed tender design and construction documentation.
• Innovative
  in design, use of novel methods and critical thinking.
• Understanding
  of common conditions of contractual terms, documentation, and tendering
  bid process.
• Working
  knowledge of estimating and direct costing to user briefs, technical
  requirements and safety.
• Understanding
  of commercial business operations.Interpreting and managing internal and
  external stakeholder specifications and requirements.
• Time
  management and awareness of meeting deadlines and deliverables