About the role:
You'll sit at the centre of a newly formed Collision Avoidance team, coordinating between engineering, project, product, and site stakeholders internally, and one external vendor delivering into an internal software platform.
This is a coordination and leadership role, not hands-on engineering. You'll be the person who keeps requirements, decisions, and deliverables aligned and traceable across the full project lifecycle, managing engineering deliverables through to sign-off and working daily between engineers, developers, and stakeholders.
- Rate: Up to $125/hr + super, based on skill and experience
- Contract: 12 months rolling + extensions based on performance
- Location: Perth CBD + WFH
- Travel: Potential for interstate + overseas vendor visits
What you'll be doing:
- Act as the primary coordination interface between external vendors, engineering teams, project team, product team, and site personnel
- Manage and track engineering deliverables across the project lifecycle, securing engineering sign-off on designs and related artefacts
- Support coordination of technical interactions with external vendors, including requirements clarification, design discussions, and technical queries and follow-ups
- Ensure outputs from technical sessions are documented, actionable, and tracked to closure
- Maintain visibility of vendor inputs, assumptions, and responses
- Translate engineering intent (requirements, behaviours, constraints) into clear and structured communication for Project, Site, and Vendor stakeholders
- Coordinate and track progress of engineering artefacts (e.g. requirements, design, and related technical outputs) across the product lifecycle
- Work daily between engineers, developers, and stakeholders to keep deliverables moving and aligned
- Ensure that deviations, clarifications, assumptions, and key decisions are captured and documented, communicated to relevant stakeholders, and tracked for follow-up where required
- Highlight gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in artefact alignment to appropriate stakeholders
What you'll need to be successful in the role:
- Full Australian working rights - no Visa sponsorship or relocation assistance provided
- 8+ years' experience in delivering complex systems or products
- Engineering membership (e.g. Engineers Australia or equivalent) to support formal design sign-off
- Demonstrated experience managing technical stakeholder relationships across engineering, product delivery teams, operations, and external vendors in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Strong background in software engineering, systems engineering, systems integration, or hardware-integrated development
- Knowledge of autonomous mining systems, collision avoidance technologies, and safety-critical operational systems
- Proven experience working through product development lifecycle, delivering software and hardware to customers
- Familiarity with ISO 21815, and with ISO 61508-aligned development environments (e.g. ISO26262, EN51708)
- TÜV Functional Safety certification highly regarded
- Ability to identify interdependencies, integration risks, and downstream impacts
- Track record of promoting a strong safety culture in all engineering and project activities
Why this role stands out:
- Greenfield project definition phase, so you're shaping how this team operates from the start
- Newly established team with clear direction and a genuinely positive culture
- Significant stakeholder exposure and real ownership of a major vendor relationship
- No FIFO. No mine site travel expected, occasional interstate or overseas vendor workshops possible
- Reports directly to the Engineering Manager, working alongside a close-knit Collision Avoidance team
To discuss in more detail, please reach out to Holly at holly@versegroup.com.au or 0485009838
