Design Review Lead
(Delivery Role – ETCS Sector 1 North Project)
📍 Location
Brisbane with travel across Brisbane and Sunshine Coast
📅 Engagement Details
Type: Contract – Full Time
Start: Q3 2026
Duration: 33 Months
Extension: +12 Months +12 Months
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Design Review Lead to support delivery within the ETCS Sector 1 North Project.
Role Overview
The Design Review Lead is responsible for managing the end-to-end design review process across ETCS trackside and interface systems, ensuring alignment with configuration baselines and readiness for system level testing and commissioning.
Key Responsibilities
Core scope for this role will include, but will not be limited to:
Plan and run the design review calendar, aligning with the integrated technical plan and IMS milestones.
Manage day-to-day vendor design submissions and performance against agreed deliverables; coordinate change requests and acceptance of design packages in alignment with TMR processes.
Coordinate multi-disciplinary reviews, ensuring clear entry/exit criteria and version control.
Maintain the Design Review Comment Log, allocate actions/owners, monitor close-out, and provide review status dashboards.
Prepare briefings and decision papers for leadership and governance forums; capture decisions and update artefacts accordingly.
Support test preparation by ensuring design artefacts and data sets meet test readiness needs and assurance evidence expectations.
Provide progress updates, action tracking and reporting for the Project Manager (Technical Planning).
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
You will report to the Project Manager (Technical Planning).
You will interface with Project Managers, ETCS engineers, Systems Integration teams, Technical Advisors, Queensland Rail, vendors, contractors, key stakeholders and delivery partners.
To ensure consistency across TMR's rail delivery and major projects portfolio, the role will be required to assist, provide advice and collaborate with The Wave project, B2N Project, Queensland Rail, Sequence Alliance, Cross River Rail Delivery Authority and other project teams within TMR from time-to-time.
Shared lessons learned between projects (where appropriate) will be an important element of this role – ensuring a consistent approach to delivery across TMR's program. As a result, flexibility and a highly collaborative and respectful work style are key skills required for this role.
About You
Relevant demonstrated experience coordinating design reviews on major rail or infrastructure projects
Strong understanding of systems engineering, configuration management and assurance processes
Experience managing multi-disciplinary stakeholder environments
Critical Behavioural Skills
Works collaboratively in a fast-paced, integrated project team, actively contributing as a key member of the team and demonstrates TMR’s values to the wider team
Drives accountability and outcomes on the Project and makes insightful decisions
Provides well considered and well documented advice to the senior leadership team and peers
Ensures productive and positive working relationships are maintained with key stakeholders
Effectively communicates complex delivery matters to a broad stakeholder group
Leads the project team to perform at a consistently high level, considerate of the project culture and project objectives
Why Join
Play a key role in engineering assurance and design governance
Work across complex ETCS and rail systems delivery
Contribute to readiness for system-level testing and commissioning
📩 How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit:
Curriculum Vitae
Brief Cover Letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining relevant experience
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview and requested to complete final documentation at the next stage.
Submit applications to:
✉ careers@iquantaglobal.com