Manager Transformation

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
• Brisbane CBD based, fulltime fixed term role until 20th of August 2028 (possibility of extension)
• 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

The Role

You will lead the end-to-end design and delivery of a whole-of-business Safety and Environment Management System (SEMS) maturity uplift program, integrating safety, engineering, and environmental frameworks into a modern, compliant, operationally embedded and risk balanced system.

This is more than program delivery, it’s enterprise change at scale, requiring a leader who can align engineering, operations, risk, and regulatory functions, and apply sound technical judgement across complex, safety-critical systems and infrastructure.

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

• Lead a multi-year, multi-phase transformation program across a live operational rail environment
• Drive uplift of SEMS across rail safety, safeworking, engineering standards, WHS, and environmental compliance
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, embedded, operational outcomes
• Apply engineering-led thinking and technical judgement to ensure safe, effective, practical and sustainable system design
• Integrate risk frameworks into SEMS, enabling risk-based decision making and prioritisation across operations
• Act as the senior escalation and decision authority for the program, managing delivery risk, interdependencies, and program performance
• Partner with the Board, CEO, and Executive to shape safety strategy and governance
• Lead engagement with regulators and external stakeholders, ensuring full compliance and alignment
• Deliver structured change and adoption, embedding new systems, processes, and ways of working at scale
• Build and lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary delivery team

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

We are specifically interested in executives who bring:

• A strong engineering foundation, with the ability to apply technical judgement across complex, safety-critical systems and infrastructure
• Demonstrated experience leading the development, implementation or uplift of SEMS (or equivalent), ideally with a focus on simplification, usability, and operational embedment
• Deep understanding of risk frameworks and their practical integration with SEMS (or equivalent) to support risk-based decision making and prioritisation
• Proven capability to design and deliver large-scale transformation programs in rail, transport, mining, or heavy asset industries, from strategy through to implementation and sustained organisational embedment
• Strong expertise across safety frameworks, regulatory environments, and compliance systems uplift
• Advanced capability in change leadership, stakeholder alignment, and navigating complex organisational environments
• Experience working within or alongside regulators and accreditation frameworks
• The ability to influence and operate at Executive and Board level

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 28th of June 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 qrcareers@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.