Engineering in QR National
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Engineering in QR National
QR National's engineers work in all facets of our business from the commuter rail network in Brisbane to servicing the coal mines and port authorities in Central and North Queensland and the Hunter Valley region in NSW to freight haulage lines in Perth, WA.
Mechanical Engineer’s at QR National use their mechanical engineering expertise in design, maintenance and acquisition of new and existing rollingstock. You will work in exciting fields such as vehicle dynamic tests to provide mechanical solutions and integrate new railway technologies. Our engineers also manage multimillion dollar rollingstock acquisition projects.
Our Mechanical Engineers contribute to projects in the Hunter Valley, managing the design and acquisition of the latest twelve-class 5000 Diesel Locomotives – the heaviest and largest locomotive on the east coast of Australia.
Civil Engineers at QR National work in a huge range of specialty fields and project magnitude. QR National offers a range of civil engineering expertise, with design capability from huge mainline bridges to simple trackside structures and civil works. As a civil engineer at QR National, you will manage small track reconstruction through to greenfield track construction, become an expert in wheel rail contact mechanicals, or run multi-million dollar specialist track maintenance and construction machines. You will be encouraged to develop your own standards and systems where needs as business expands and develops.
As a Civil Engineer at QR National you will not be locked into one area of expertise. Your career with us is viewed as a continuing professional development program and the opportunity exists to work in different teams and regions.
No rail transport company can operate without electricity and machinery. In QR National, our electrical engineers ensure the maintenance of our equipment, with the main areas including power and overhead traction, signalling, operational systems and telecommunications.
Signalling plays a critical role to ensure that our train services run safely and efficiently on our network. Operational systems engineers work with leading software technologies to design train management systems and support systems for our signalling network.
Our telecommunications network spans our rail network – all 10,000km’s of it. Telecommunications engineers design systems that monitor and control signalling and train management systems to internal communication systems as well as plan, install, test and commission new communications infrastructure.
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