Senior Contract Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 28, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Siemens scores A on the Alion truth index.
At Siemens Mobility, we empower transport providers worldwide to realize sustainable mobility solutions. As a leading technology company, we combine the real and digital worlds like no other in rail. In an open ecosystem, we bring together rolling stock, rail infrastructure, customer service, and software to enable sustainable, comfortable and cost-effective rail traffic today.
Your Role - Impactful, Meaningful and Future-Oriented
In this role, you will play a pivotal leadership position on one of Australia’s most significant public-private partnership infrastructure projects - the Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport (SMWSA) Stations, Systems, Trains and Operations & Maintenance (SSTOM) PPP Project.
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end contract management across the SSTOM project, ensuring outcomes are aligned with commercial, legal, and project objectives.
- Act as a key interface across an unincorporated Joint Venture and the broader PPP contractual framework, building strong and effective working relationships.
- Proactively prevent, manage, and resolve complex claims and disputes through early intervention and strategic commercial decision-making.
- Draft and negotiate high-value, complex contractual correspondence and claims in collaboration with project and commercial leaders.
- Coordinate dispute resolution processes including expert determination, mediation, arbitration (e.g. ACICA rules), and litigation, working closely with internal Legal and external counsel.
- Lead supplier and consultant governance on contentious matters, chairing commercial forums and escalation meetings and briefing executives on risks, options, and likely outcomes.
You will work collaboratively with Engineering, Delivery, Finance, Legal, Procurement, and external advisors to support successful project delivery.
Shape the future of mobility with your qualifications and skills
To succeed in this role, you will bring strong commercial judgment, technical contract expertise, and the confidence to lead through complexity.
You will bring:
- Proven contract management experience on major infrastructure projects, with PPP experience highly regarded.
- Deep knowledge of Australian construction and PPP contracts, including SOPA adjudication and multi-track dispute resolution processes.
- Experience managing disputes within the infrastructure or construction sectors, either in-house or through private legal practice.
- Advanced capability in claims drafting, delay analysis literacy, and quantum evaluation (including preliminaries, prolongation, disruption, and productivity).
Why you’ll love working for Siemens Mobility
We live and foster an ownership culture in which every employee takes personal responsibility for our Company’s success. We invest in our people and support meaningful career development through a wide range of opportunities.
Some of the benefits you’ll enjoy include:
- Flexible working arrangements
- National and international career opportunities
- A positive, inclusive and relaxed working environment
- Industry-leading parental leave
- Novated leasing options
- Employee discount programs
- Siemens Share Options
Join us in transforming the everyday for a better tomorrow.
Siemens prides itself on its diverse workforce.
We encourage applications that reflect the diversity of the communities in which we work and actively promote opportunities for people who identify as Indigenous or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.
We are a proud equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a workplace where difference is valued and inclusion is embedded. As part of our ownership culture, Siemens supports flexible working practices that help our people balance work and personal commitments.
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