USE STAR TECHNIQUE.

USE STAR TECHNIQUE.

Key Communications

As a senior signalling project engineer, how do you manage communications with both internal teams and external stakeholders to keep all parties updated on project progress, and to keep the project on track?

Skills to emphasize: Communication skills, stakeholder management, diplomacy, clarity in reporting, Adaptability, and effectiveness in communication.

As a senior signalling project engineer, can you provide an example of a challenging communication situation with a stakeholder and how you resolved it?

Skills to emphasize: Effective communication and reporting, Stakeholder management, Conflict resolution, Diplomacy, negotiation skills, and the ability to convey technical information effectively.

Competencies

As a senior signalling project engineer, As a senior signalling project engineer, provide an example of a critical decision you made in a past project. What was the outcome?

Skills to emphasize: Decision-making skills, critical thinking, ability to evaluate impacts, leadership, ability to consider broader impacts, problem-solving.

As a senior signalling project engineer, tell me about a time when you found an innovative solution to a problem in your projects.

Skills to emphasize: Innovation, creativity, and resourcefulness.

Decision-making, Innovative, and creative thinking, Leadership, and setting performance standards.

As a senior signalling project engineer, how do you monitor and ensure high work standards within your team?

Skills to emphasize: Leadership in setting and maintaining high-performance standards, Commercial acumen, and creative thinking to navigate project challenges.

Essential Selection Criteria

As a senior signalling project engineer, can you provide an overview of your educational background in engineering and how it has prepared you for a role in railway signalling? (No need for STAR Technique for this question).

Skills to emphasize: Academic qualifications, continuous learning, and commitment to professional standards.

As a senior signalling project engineer, describe your experience with the maintenance, construction, or project management of signalling projects.

Skills to emphasize: Specific examples of past projects, leadership roles, and technical expertise.

What is your understanding of the Australian Standards for Track Infrastructure and the National Code of Practice? How have you applied this knowledge in your work? How do you ensure compliance with Australian Standards and rail safety legislation in your projects?

Skills to emphasize: Deep understanding of standards and practices, project management capabilities.

How have you incorporated work health and safety principles into your previous projects?

Skills to Emphasize: Safety management, risk assessment, compliance with legislation, proactive approach to safety.

As a senior signaling project engineer, can you describe a complex signaling project or team you have led or managed to achieve a critical outcome and the challenges you overcame? What was your approach?

Skills to Emphasize: Project management, technical expertise in signaling systems, problem-solving, leadership skills, team management, and successful project delivery.

As a senior signaling project engineer, what strategies do you use to manage and administer the delivery of major infrastructure projects effectively?

Skills to Emphasize: Organizational skills, strategic planning, and administrative capabilities.

Describe a situation where your communication skills and commercial awareness significantly impacted a signalling project.

Skills to Emphasize: Communication proficiency, financial acumen, and persuasive skills.

Essential Selection Criteria

As a senior signaling project engineer, can you discuss your experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams (signalling, civil, track) in a project environment? What challenges did you face? How did you coordinate the activities of different teams to meet project goals? What was your approach?

Can you provide an example of a conflict that arose in a multi-disciplinary project team and how you resolved it? How do you ensure that all disciplinary perspectives are integrated into the project planning and execution phases?

Skills to emphasize: Multidisciplinary collaboration, project management, effective coordination, broad technical understanding, team leadership, interdisciplinary understanding, conflict resolutionDescribe your experience with tendering and contract negotiations in a signaling project. How did you manage the project's budget?

Describe a situation where you managed a particularly complex tendering process. What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?

Can you give an example of a negotiation you led that resulted in favorable terms for your organization?

Skills to Emphasize: Negotiation skills, financial management, and cost control.

Discuss your experience with managing budgets and programs on major signalling projects?

Describe a time when you had to manage a significant budget for a major signaling project. What strategies did you use to ensure the project stayed within budget?

Can you give an example of how you successfully managed the timeline and resources of a complex signaling project?

Skills to Emphasize: Experience in complex project management and budget handling. Ability to collaborate and negotiate with diverse stakeholders. Skills in construction management and contract negotiation.

Describe your approach to managing project scope and interfaces in large signalling project.

Skills to Emphasize: Scope management, interface coordination, detail-oriented planning, proactive communication.

Describe a time when you successfully managed the scope of a major infrastructure project. What strategies did you use to ensure all requirements were met?

How have you handled the coordination of different project interfaces to ensure seamless integration and delivery?

How do you build and manage relationships with various stakeholders (including project team members, contractors, consultants and multiple government and statutory bodies) in a project environment?

Describe a project where you had to engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including government bodies. How did you manage these relationships to ensure project success?

Provide an example of a difficult negotiation with a contractor or consultant that had a significant impact on your project. How did you handle it?

Skills to Emphasize: Stakeholder management, diplomacy, persuasive communication, consensus-building.

Describe your direct experience in major construction of rail, track, and signaling projects. What were your primary responsibilities? What were some of the obstacles you faced?

Can you give an example of a significant challenge you faced while managing a rail/track/signaling project and how you addressed it?

Skills to Emphasize: Construction management, on-site leadership, problem-solving under pressure, adaptability.

Can you provide an example of a time when you had to explain a complex technical issue to a non-technical audience? How did you ensure your message was understood?

Can you provide an example of a time when your communication skills were crucial in delivering a project's message to a diverse audience?

Describe a situation where you had to address a significant misunderstanding between project stakeholders. How did you manage to clarify and resolve the issue?

Describe a situation where you successfully managed communication with a challenging external stakeholder. What strategies did you use to effectively convey information and maintain a positive relationship?

What is your approach to preparing written reports and presentations that are meant to be shared with both technical and non-technical stakeholders? Can you share an example of a particularly impactful report or presentation?