Manager Safety & System Assurance

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

Our team of over 7,500 and our customers are central to everything we do, we have a proud history as a safe and reliable railway operator, with a commitment to ensuring that our operating systems reflect the highest standards.  Queensland Rail inspires innovative thought, passionate motivation, teamwork, and forward thinking, where our people can achieve their own career aspirations.

Why Queensland Rail?

We will provide you with an exciting and diverse career opportunity to join a company that continues to strive in the delivery of a modern and world-class railway provider, you will be able to lead and apply your innovative thoughts to enhance our rail network.  For this role we also offer: 

• Highly competitive salary plus a generous superannuation contribution
• Collaborative and engaged work place and team environment
• Genuine work life balance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing employees with holistic and contemporary health and wellbeing programs.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities

About the Role

As the Manager System & Safety Assurance, you will provide strategic leadership across Queensland Rail’s Major Projects portfolio, ensuring system and safety assurance requirements are effectively governed, integrated, and delivered. This is a permanent opportunity based in Brisbane CBD, where you will lead the development and implementation of assurance frameworks, contribute to system design reviews, oversee assurance activities, and ensure new and modified rail systems are introduced into service safely, compliantly, and in line with Queensland Rail’s obligations as an accredited Rail Transport Operator.

Working closely with project teams, technical specialists, regulators, and external assurance bodies, you will drive assurance planning, risk management, and governance across complex infrastructure projects. Leading a team of assurance professionals, you will provide expert guidance on system safety, systems engineering, and assurance while fostering collaboration to achieve successful project outcomes and the safe integration of rail assets into QR’s operational network.

Purpose That Counts – Some of the responsibilities of the role:

• Lead the development and implementation of system and safety assurance frameworks across Queensland Rail’s Major Projects portfolio, ensuring new and modified assets can be safely accepted into operational service and meet regulatory and organisational requirements.
• Establish and govern integrated assurance planning, ensuring assurance activities, dependencies, evidence requirements, and delivery milestones are effectively coordinated and aligned with project schedules and governance expectations.
• Provide strategic leadership for Safety in Design, hazard analysis, risk management, and assurance activities, ensuring risks and controls are appropriately identified, assessed, and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders while providing expert guidance on system and safety assurance requirements, overseeing assurance outcomes, and driving the resolution of risks and compliance issues to support successful project delivery.

People Who Count - What you can bring to the role: 

• You are a highly experienced systems and safety assurance professional with a strong track record delivering assurance, asset acceptance, and systems engineering outcomes within large, complex rail or infrastructure environments.
• You bring extensive expertise in system safety, hazard analysis, and risk management, with demonstrated experience in resolving complex technical and operational challenges.
• Your strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities enable you to interpret and communicate complex technical information, providing clear, evidence-based recommendations that support informed decision making.
• You are a collaborative and influential leader with proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams, building strong stakeholder relationships, and successfully integrating complex systems within operational environments.

Your journey matters. Make it with us. 

 There has never been a more exciting time to join Queensland Rail. We offer boundless opportunities to support your career today and for your future. 
 

Apply via our website by clicking the apply button before 11.59pm  Sunday the 9th of August  2026. To read the position description click HERE
 
Applicants for roles at Queensland Rail may undergo pre-employment alcohol and drug testing if they advance in the recruitment process. The selection process may include psychometric assessments, pre-employment health checks and background screenings, which could involve criminal history and credit checks.  

To learn more about this career opportunity, please contact Liam McKeown via email at liam.mckeown@qr.com.au

We’re a team of thousands and we’re proud of our individual journeys and stories. And as we grow, we need more diverse backgrounds and perspectives than ever before. We are committed to facilitating a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, we welcome you to let us know so we can work with you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.