Rail Possessions Manager

Cross River Rail Delivery Authority; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Cross River Rail Delivery Authority is seeking a Rail Possessions Manager to lead the Possessions Team and coordinate track access across the SEQ rail network. You will drive governance, safety and efficiency in possession planning and reporting, aligning with project objectives and stakeholder needs.

You will oversee governance documentation, programme delivery and cross-agency collaboration, ensuring timely access and mitigation of risks while supporting long-term career growth in Queensland's

Qualifications

• Experience in possessions planning and possessions program management within a rail infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a specialist team, establish clear accountabilities and maintain performance in a complex delivery environment.
• Experience chairing and facilitating multi agency forums, building consensus and supporting effective decision making across competing priorities.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to coordinate complex delivery activities and manage risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.
• Highly developed written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear reports, submissions, briefings and governance documentation.
• Proven ability to build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and influence outcomes in complex project environments.
• A practical and solutions focused approach, with the judgement and initiative to resolve competing access and delivery challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Possessions Team, establishing clear accountabilities and supporting performance and development.
• Chair the Cross River Rail Track Possessions Working Group, bringing project teams and stakeholders together to identify risks, dependencies, conflicts and opportunities.
• Work with Queensland Rail, TMR and project stakeholders to develop and optimise possession programs.
• Maintain the Cross River Rail Base Track Possession Schedule, ensuring information remains accurate and current.
• Review possession programs and access strategies to support efficient network access and compliance.
• Monitor project activities and possession delivery to identify risks, constraints, dependencies and changes that may affect planned access or project outcomes.
• Assure possession documentation, reports, submissions and governance material to ensure information is accurate, consistent and evidence based.
• Maintain reporting, management tools and performance information to support governance, decision making and executive reporting.
• Oversee possession related risks, issues and opportunities, providing recommendations, mitigation measures and practical delivery solutions.

Skills

Possessions planning

Team leadership

Facilitation

Program management

Written communications

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Job description

Cross River Rail Delivery Authority – Melbourne VIC

Cross River Rail Delivery Authority (CRRDA)…Your chance to work with the best!

The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority is building a new 10.2km rail line that includes 5.9km of twin tunnels running under the Brisbane River and CBD; with four new underground stations at Boggo Road, Woolloongabba, Albert Street and Roma Street.

Once complete, it will provide trains with a much-needed alternative rail path through the core of the current SEQ Rail network, unlocking a bottleneck and allowing more trains to run more often across the whole of South East Queensland.

The Cross River Rail Delivery Authority is also delivering multiple supporting projects and activities in conjunction with the Department of Transport and Main Roads. These include accessibility rebuilds for eight surface stations, construction of three new stations on the Gold Coast; upgrades for stabling yards; track works and surface rail enhancements; and the introduction of a new ETCS digital signalling system.

About the Role

As the Rail Possessions Manager, you will lead the Possessions Team and work closely with Queensland Rail, the Department of Transport and Main Roads and project stakeholders to coordinate the planning, management and delivery of Cross River Rail track possessions across the SEQ rail network.

You will oversee possession governance, compliance and reporting, ensuring rail access requirements are delivered safely, efficiently and in alignment with project objectives while minimising network and customer impacts. Working closely with the Delivery Sequencing Team, you will help resolve competing priorities and coordinate critical rail access across a complex infrastructure program.

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced rail possessions professional to lead a specialist team while building a long term career in Queensland's expanding rail industry, with significant transport investment continuing well beyond the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Relocation assistance is available for suitable candidates. This opportunity is offered as a fixed term contract until March 2029.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Possessions Team, establishing clear accountabilities and supporting performance and development.
• Chair the Cross River Rail Track Possessions Working Group, bringing project teams and stakeholders together to identify risks, dependencies, conflicts and opportunities.
• Work with Queensland Rail, TMR and project stakeholders to develop and optimise possession programs.
• Maintain the Cross River Rail Base Track Possession Schedule, ensuring information remains accurate and current.
• Review possession programs and access strategies to support efficient network access and compliance.
• Monitor project activities and possession delivery to identify risks, constraints, dependencies and changes that may affect planned access or project outcomes.
• Assure possession documentation, reports, submissions and governance material to ensure information is accurate, consistent and evidence based.
• Maintain reporting, management tools and performance information to support governance, decision making and executive reporting.
• Oversee possession related risks, issues and opportunities, providing recommendations, mitigation measures and practical delivery solutions.

About You:

• Experience in possessions planning and possessions program management within a rail infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a specialist team, establish clear accountabilities and maintain performance in a complex delivery environment.
• Experience chairing and facilitating multi agency forums, building consensus and supporting effective decision making across competing priorities.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to coordinate complex delivery activities and manage risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.
• Highly developed written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear reports, submissions, briefings and governance documentation.
• Proven ability to build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and influence outcomes in complex project environments.
• A practical and solutions focused approach, with the judgement and initiative to resolve competing access and delivery challenges.

Why work with CRRDA?

On Cross River Rail you will not only work with the best but become your best. And as we enter a new phase of delivery, our project offers a rare career opportunity for top tier professionals to have played their part on something that is genuinely city shaping and transformative.

Our people are supported with flexible work options, career development through the Australian Institute of Management, salary packaging and access to world class employee assistance provider Telus Health.

At Cross River Rail we are an equal opportunity employer and strive to build balanced teams from all walks of life.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply for all Cross River Rail Delivery Authority vacancies.