Signal Electrician

Req. Id:  8832
Date:  13 Feb 2025
Location: 

Cairns, QLD, AU, 4870

Company:  Queensland Rail

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

 

Queensland Rail is built on true connection. We are a large and fully integrated infrastructure business chartered with a responsibility that is pivotal to the success of Queensland and its people. Our culture is one based on safety and performance.

 

What Queensland Rail has to offer:

 

  • Permanent full-time role with an industry leader
  • Total remuneration package of $185,000 (including allowances)
  • 9 day fortnight roster - Mon-Fri, Mon-Thurs (3 day weekend every fortnight)
  • Opportunities to earn even more from OT and working away
  • Travel within roster on paid work time
  • Paid training and ongoing support to develop your skills and experience
  • Relocation assistance available for the right candidate
  • We pride ourselves on our safety culture, we ‘work safe’ so that everyone goes ‘home safe’
  • Rail specific tools, uniform, PPE and shared work vehicle supplied

 

Please click here to view our full range of benefits.

 

About the Team

 

Our Regional Assets division plays a crucial role in ensuring the safety, reliability, and efficiency of Queensland’s rail network, keeping it dependable for the people of our state.

 

Working out of our Portsmith depot, this role is part of our dedicated Wayside Systems team, which includes experts in Signalling and Telecommunications. The team are responsible for servicing the North Coast and Tablelands lines, spanning from Cardwell to Mareeba.  In addition to planned preventative maintenance the team also perform signalling upgrades and corrective works.

 

About the role

 

As a Signal Electrician you will carry out the installation, maintenance, and repair of signalling equipment as well as report on the performance and condition of signalling assets. You will play a key role in achieving our vision of delivering world-class rail services for our customers by ensuring the safety and reliability of our assets and services.

 

In this role you will:

 

  • Install, maintain, repair and adjust electrical signalling equipment.
  • Undertake scheduled maintenance activities on signalling equipment.
  • Attend signalling failures to analyse, repair and report on cause of failures.
  • Maintain records and documentation relating to signal maintenance and costing systems.
  • Work predominately between the hours of 0715 to 1615 on a 9-day fortnight

 

About you

 

  • Certificate IV Railway Signalling
  • Current ‘C’ Class Drivers Licence
  • Current Queensland Electrical Mechanic Licence or interstate equivalent that can be changed over prior to starting
  • Must have capacity to travel and work throughout regional Queensland

 

For further information please click here to view the Position Description.

 

We look forward to hearing from motivated individuals who are ready to make an impact and work as part of a dedicated team!

 

Your journey matters. Make it with us. 
 

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

  

Apply for the Signal Electrician role via our website by clicking the Apply button before midnight on Sunday 2nd of March 2025.

 

Queensland Rail acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Elders of the lands and waterways our network traverses.

 

We’re a team of thousands and we’re proud of our individual, diverse journeys and stories. Like the communities of Queensland, there is a home for everyone at Queensland Rail.

 

We are committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and accessible to all. If you would like to discuss how we can support your application via reasonable adjustments, please contact Nancy Sanday via email at nancy.sanday@qr.com.au.