Role requirements:
Skills and capabilities:
* Tertiary qualifications in business, engineering, safety, or a related field
* Proven leadership experience in large-scale infrastructure construction programs, ideally in the rail or transport infrastructure sector.
* Demonstrated ability to provide assurance and oversight of contractor performance in complex, high-risk environments.
* Excellent stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to build productive relationships across government, regulators, industry partners, and the community.
* A collaborative leadership style with experience developing and mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
* Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
* Strong strategic and analytical skills, with the ability to design and implement initiatives that enhance safety performance, operational outcomes, and data-driven decision-making.
* Hold current training qualifications required to access and inspect works on a Queensland Rail corridor, for example Safely Access the Rail Corridor (SARC).
* Hold lead auditor qualification
* Hold a current Queensland Construction White Card.
* Demonstrated knowledge and ability to provide advice on all legislative, regulatory, advisory and best practice standards, particularly around rail safety (Rail Safety National Law) and workplace health and safety.
* Demonstrated significant experience in providing safety advice, conducting inspections and co-ordinating 3rd party audits on rail infrastructure projects.
* Demonstrated experience in managing WHS non-conformances of principal contractors working on rail projects.
* Demonstrated experience in incident investigation in the civil construction industry.
* Proven ability to provide high level reporting and briefing on rail safety and WHS matters to leadership team.
* Demonstrated ability to draft complex correspondence, reports, briefing notes, submissions and other correspondence in accordance with departmental standards.
* Proven ability to build and sustain business relationships to enable collaborative approach with internal personnel and stakeholders.
* Capability to work in a close, multi-faceted team environment
* Receiving and reviewing safety legislation, regulation and industry codes and standards to ensure the branch and projects maintain relevant compliance.
* Excellent ability to use a range of Microsoft Office and other relevant software products advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
* Hold a current Open driver's licence.
* Ability to obtain and maintain a criminal history clearance due to access to sensitive data