Interface Design Manager

You’ll connect Queensland. We’ll connect you to an amazing career.

Queensland Rail stands on the foundation of connection – the relationships we build within our teams, with our partners and across the communities we serve. For more than 150 years, we’ve been linking people and places across the state. Now, we’re inviting an experienced Interface Design Manager to play a critical role in delivering complex, multi-disciplinary rail infrastructure projects that make a real difference for Queensland.

Your opportunity

This is a fulltime position, based in Brisbane CBD with a competitive remuneration package and hybrid work options to support the balance between work and personal commitments.

As the Interface Design Manager, reporting to the Senior Manager Commercial and Contracts, you will provide end to end interface design management services across the full project lifecycle. You will lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams to deliver safe, compliant, commercially focused and high-quality design outcomes for complex rail infrastructure projects.

This role is highly stakeholder facing and demands a high level of emotionally intelligent communication to effectively engage, influence and align diverse stakeholders. You will work closely with internal project teams, external consultants, contractors and other stakeholders to ensure design interfaces between new and existing assets are fully coordinated and managed.

Purpose that Counts.

In this role, you will make a meaningful contribution by:

• Coordinating engineering, architectural and construction planning professionals, including the effective management of external consultants and resources within project-based, multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Providing infrastructure design scope definition and planning services across all project phases, ensuring delivery against key performance indicators relating to scope, cost, time, quality, risk and safety.
• Overseeing and managing design interfaces between new and existing Queensland Rail assets to ensure fully coordinated, safe and compliant design solutions.
• Leading the development and implementation of design activities, including design reviews and approvals, meetings, scope and design changes, budget monitoring, scheduling and performance reporting.
• Engaging, overseeing and administering multi-disciplinary consultant agreements, ensuring contractual obligations are met and value for money outcomes are achieved.
• Participating in and managing tender and contract activities, including consultant selection and tender evaluation.
• Planning and delivering complete, coordinated, multi-disciplinary design packages ready for tender, including all required drawings, documentation and certifications.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant safety, risk management, operational and environmental legislation, standards and Queensland Rail governance frameworks.
• Building and maintaining strong, trusted stakeholder relationships between project teams, design teams and key internal and external stakeholders to achieve beneficial project outcomes.

We are seeking to connect with someone who ideally demonstrates:

• A minimum of 5 years of design management experience in Engineering, Architecture, or Construction Management related discipline.
• A high level of skill and experience in managing and coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams on complex rail infrastructure or comparable large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Proven capability in administering and managing multi-disciplinary consultant and professional services agreements.
• Strong experience leading the delivery of commercially focused design management solutions, with specialist expertise in at least one of the following areas: design, asset management, infrastructure maintenance, construction or supervision.
• Highly developed relationship management, stakeholder engagement and communication skills, underpinned by emotional intelligence and the ability to influence diverse stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of collaborative tools such as Aconex,  railway transport operations, construction, maintenance and safety standards, or the ability to rapidly acquire this knowledge.
• Extensive understanding of design and engineering requirements associated with rail infrastructure works or similar complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to meet statutory, regulatory and policy obligations, particularly in relation to safety, environmental and commercial contract processes.
• A commitment to working in alignment with Queensland Rail’s values and behaviours, and to fostering respectful, collaborative and inclusive working relationships.

For further information please view the Position Description.

Benefits that count. What Queensland Rail has to offer: 

• Attractive salary to be discussed with preferred applicant based on skills and experience plus 12.75% superannuation.
• Permanent, full‑time position with flexible working arrangements to balance work and life commitments
• Enjoy free travel to work and discounted rail travel 
• The opportunity to work on high-profile, complex projects that shape the future of Queensland’s rail network
• QRI Lifestyle offers members access to over 2,000 exclusive discounts and services  
• Prioritise your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing with our range of free services  
• You and your family can get fit and have fun with access to over 380 gyms and pools with our Fitness Passport discounted membership options

And more! Click here to see the full range of benefits available to Queensland Rail employees.  

Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Queensland Rail acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Elders of the lands and waterways our network traverses.

Our teams are People who Count. We encourage diversity in our teams, including different genders, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religions, neurodiversity, education levels and many more aspects. No two journeys are the same, and it’s because of our differences that as a collective, we achieve great things. Please advise if you would like to discuss reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process.

Your journey matters. Make it with us. 
There’s never been a more exciting time to join Queensland Rail. If you're ready to make a real impact and help shape our future, we encourage you to submit your resume and cover letter by 11:59pm Sunday 15th March 2026. 

To learn more about this Queensland Rail career opportunity please contact qrcareers@qr.com.au.