{"id":3786112,"url":"https://alion.io/job/smec-team-leader-drafting-rail-metro","title":"Team Leader, Drafting – Rail & Metro","company":{"id":1994618,"name":"SMEC","domain":"smec.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/smec-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":31,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.968,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":36,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Melbourne, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-04T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-04","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T06:27:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"About the job\nJoin a global consultancy delivering iconic infrastructure projects\nWork alongside industry-leading specialists in a collaborative, flexible environment\nShape your career with genuine professional growth opportunities\nAbout SMEC\nSMEC is a global engineering consultancy renowned for delivering complex, sustainable infrastructure solutions across transport, water, energy, and urban development markets. Our teams are empowered to innovate, solve technical challenges, and contribute to projects that positively shape communities across Australia and worldwide.\nWe are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and gender-equitable workforce and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds across engineering and technical disciplines. SMEC provides a supportive and flexible working environment that recognises individual contribution, supports career progression, and enables our people to balance work and life at all stages of their career.\nAs a family-friendly employer, we offer flexible working arrangements and benefits including 18 weeks of universal paid parental leave. We are proud to foster an inclusive culture that supports gender equity, LGBTI+ inclusion and First Nations representation, with access to strong professional networks, role models, and mentoring and sponsorship programs.\nInfrastructure\nAt SMEC, we understand that our continued success within the infrastructure market is the result of building long-term client relationships. We listen and understand the specific needs of our clients and deliver a complete value chain of services to provide sustainable solutions across major infrastructure projects worldwide.\nThe Role\nSMEC is seeking an accomplished and people-focused Team Leader, Drafting - Rail & Metro to lead our drafting capability within the Melbourne Rail & Metro team. Working alongside industry-leading engineers, designers and project managers, you will provide leadership and direction to our drafting team while supporting the successful delivery of major rail and transport infrastructure projects.\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join a growing Rail & Metro business with a strong pipeline of work across Victoria. You will play an important role in building team capability, developing our people and ensuring we have the right drafting resources, systems and technical standards in place to consistently deliver high-quality project outcomes.\nBased in our Melbourne office, you will lead and support a team of drafters across a diverse portfolio of projects, balancing people leadership with technical oversight and project delivery. You will work closely with project and discipline leaders to coordinate resources, manage workloads, maintain quality and drive consistency in our drafting and digital delivery practices.\nKey responsibilities will include:\nLead, mentor and develop the Rail & Metro drafting team, supporting individual development, engagement and career progression.\nCoordinate drafting resources and workloads across multiple projects, working closely with project managers and technical leaders.\nProvide technical leadership and oversight of drafting deliverables, ensuring quality, consistency and compliance with relevant standards.\nSupport project teams in the delivery of detailed design and construction documentation across complex rail and transport infrastructure projects.\nEstablish and promote consistent drafting standards, workflows, templates and quality assurance processes across the team.\nDrive continuous improvement in drafting and digital engineering practices, systems and ways of working.\nSupport workforce and capability planning, identifying skills gaps and future resourcing requirements across the project pipeline.\nFoster a collaborative, supportive and high-performing team culture.\nBuild strong working relationships across Rail & Metro and the broader business to support multidisciplinary project delivery.\nProvide hands-on technical support and guidance where required on complex or high-priority project deliverables.\nAbout You\nYou are an experienced rail or transport infrastructure drafting professional who has progressed into people and technical leadership. You combine strong drafting expertise with the ability to lead teams, coordinate competing project demands and create an environment where people can develop and perform at their best.\nYou are a collaborative and approachable leader who can maintain high technical standards while balancing the broader needs of the team and project portfolio.\nYou will bring:\n8+ years' experience delivering drafting and digital engineering outcomes across Rail & Metro or major transport infrastructure projects.\nDemonstrated experience leading, mentoring and developing drafting teams within multidisciplinary environments.\nStrong capability in workforce planning, resource coordination and balancing priorities across multiple concurrent projects.\nAdvanced proficiency with relevant industry software including MicroStation, OpenRail, AutoCAD, Revit or similar platforms.\nExtensive experience preparing, coordinating and reviewing detailed design and construction documentation.\nStrong knowledge of drafting standards, quality assurance processes and digital delivery practices.\nThe ability to establish and maintain consistent technical standards and ways of working across a team.\nStrong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work effectively with project managers, engineers, designers and other technical disciplines.\nA genuine interest in coaching and developing people and building long-term team capability.\nA proactive, solutions-focused approach with a commitment to continuous improvement, innovation and technical excellence.\nDon't meet every requirement? We still encourage you to apply. We recognise that talent comes from many different experiences and backgrounds, and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture for people from all walks of life.\nHow To Apply\nAll applications must be submitted online. To apply, click on the \"Apply Now\" link below and follow the prompts.\nFor a confidential discussion regarding this opportunity, please contact Laura Pierce - \nTo find out more about SMEC, please visit our careers page at www.smec.com/careers\nAll recruitment activities go through our Resourcing function and currently, this role doesn’t require agency input. Please do not forward resumes directly to SMEC employees/managers; we do not accept unsolicited resumes and are not responsible for any associated fees.\n#LI-CT4\nAt Surbana Jurong, we put talent, hard work, teamwork and a fun workplace together to approach problems and solve them creatively and collaboratively. 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