Project Manager

• Apr 2022 - Present

Project Engineer

• May 2018 - Jun 2022

Qtectic acts as the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) within the consortium delivering the Queensland New Generation Rollingstock (QNGR) vehicles. As the project engineer for Qtectic, Tim acted as the lead technical role for Qtectic in the Accessibility Variation Project (AVP) throughout early works, design, and delivery phases.• Provided technical leadership for Qtectic.• Provided project management oversight of subcontractor to ensure project engineering team achieved approvals to project deed in accordance with required timelines.• Served as primary point of contact to customer and subcontractor for communication on technical matters. • Served as primary technical customer facing role for Qtectic in AVP.• Worked with technical representatives of subcontractors and customers to resolve conflicts.• Ensured rapid conflict de-escalation where opportunity was available.• Ensured early identification of technical impasses and escalated appropriately to executive team. • Provided independent assessment on technical matters for project director and Qtectic executive team.• Supported and advised the project director to ensure that the sub-contractor pursued the project in accordance with the agreed program, or in accordance with an agreed mitigation plan.• Advised project director on all technical matters for AVP.• Provided technical input into commercial agreements to ensure resolution of proposed variation to scope and program. • Provided commercial advice on technical issues where independent advice was required. • Acted in role of project director during times of absence.• Supported ETCS project director and operations director in areas of expertise.• Identified areas of risk and opportunity for Qtectic and the project.• Participated in internal and external audits and drove non-conformances and opportunities to closure.• Reviewed and updated internal and subcontractor management plans and ensured internal and external stakeholder compliance with plans.

Engineering Change & Configuration Manager

• Jul 2017 - May 2018

This position involved supporting the Queensland New Generation Rail (QNGR) project demands for the management of engineering changes to design. The role focused on developing and implementing engineering change requests (CR) and change control within the systems engineering design team during testing, prototype, design, and production phases; LEAN management for design tasks was used. Additionally, support to implementation staff at Bombardier Transportation’s Brisbane based maintenance facility was provided by means of direct responses to queries, development of work instructions, and coordination of work orders to appropriately complete required production work. Achievements and Contributions • Followed established processes and managed change requests; action items, and engineering change requests (CR) were raised, prepared and presented to the Product Change Coordination Board (PCCB); • Represented engineering for CR decisions during Change Implementation Board (CIB) and PCCB meetings; • Reviewed CRs to ensure ECCB gates, accurate identification of requirements, product integrity & appropriate recommendations of effectivity and priority are achieved; • Coordination of design releases focusing on the management of priorities, management of scope split between design centres and LEAN management of each centre to ensure delivery dates are met with minimum cost; • Coordination and review of work instructions (WI) and provided engineering support to ease the implementation of changes onto vehicles at the maintenance facility; • Risk and opportunity management; • Cross site coordination of project baseline, and implementation of processes and controls to ensure effective management of serial production and retrofit activities, and;• Management and reporting of engineering change budget.

Junior Engineer

• Sep 2010 - Jul 2017

This position involved supporting general engineering demands, whilst later moved to more specialised fields, such as: Design for Environment, Mass engineering and Fire Safety in the multi-million-dollar QNGR project environment with tight and often conflicting deadlines and requirements.Achievements and ContributionsFire Safety Engineer: Initially supported fire safety engineer before finally taking over as responsible fire engineer for the project. This role involved the management and submission of fire certificate inventory list, management and liaison with suppliers, response to customer technical queries, liaison with fire specialist (ARUP), obtain acceptance for non-compliant systems from fire specialist (ARUP) through means of risk assessments, development, management and finalisation of Duggan’s calculation for the prediction of heat release rates of the vehicle, provide advice on designs changes in order to achieve compliance and organised fire testing to BS6853:1999, EN45545 and ISO 5660-1.Mass Engineer: Interfaced with suppliers and designers to determine mass, centre of gravity and moment of inertia of numerous systems on the vehicle, utilised Catia for clarification of system properties.General Engineer Support: Performed technical standard comparisons and recommendations, created numerical methods (Weibull) tool for life prediction of axle box bearings, conducted failure analysis and impacts in order to reports on issues, wrote test procedures and conducted tests, and conducted fatigue calculations on bolts.Design for Environment Engineer: Development of framework for the monitoring of controlled materials and chemicals, development of technical requirements document input for design for environment, liaison with suppliers and customer, material selection and design review, assessment of deliverables against EC1907/2006 requirements and created, managed and finalised contractual deliverables in order to receive customer acceptance.