Senior Manager Signalling & Telecommunications Maintenance

Queensland Rail Limited; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Rail Limited is seeking a Senior Manager Signalling & Telecommunications Maintenance to lead SEQ Asset Maintenance in Brisbane CBD. This permanent, full-time leadership role manages signalling and telecommunications assets and delivers safety, reliability, and customer-focused outcomes.

You will drive strategic asset management, oversee large multidisciplinary teams, and champion the integration of new technologies and major projects across Queensland Rail’s network.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in signalling and telecommunications maintenance, construction, and asset management.
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale maintenance and infrastructure delivery functions at a senior management level.
• Strong strategic leadership capabilities, with expertise in asset lifecycle management, reliability improvement, risk management, and operational performance.
• Experience leading organisational change, operational transformation, and the integration of new technologies and infrastructure.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement, influencing, negotiation, and relationship management skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across diverse groups.
• A commitment to safety leadership, people development, and fostering high-performing and engaged teams.
• A track record of delivering measurable business improvements in service reliability, asset performance, customer outcomes, and financial performance

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic leadership within a complex passenger rail and infrastructure environment, balancing safety, customer outcomes, commercial performance, and operational excellence.
• Leading the maintenance, reliability, and lifecycle management of signalling and telecommunications assets to optimise network performance and availability.
• Driving operational readiness and the successful integration of new technologies, assets, major projects, and transformative ways of working.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders, project delivery teams, industry partners, regulators, and other rail operators.
• Leading a high-performing workforce that fosters collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Delivering business objectives, performance targets, safety commitments, and financial outcomes across maintenance and construction activities.
• Developing and implementing contemporary asset management, maintenance, reliability, and risk management strategies across a diverse and expanding asset base.
• Delivering SEQ Assets transformation and change program.

Job description

Senior Manager Signalling & Telecommunications Maintenance

Queensland Rail's purpose is to provide a customer-focused, safe, reliable, on-time, value for money rail service that benefits the community, supports industry and is integrated with the public transport system. The organisation's vision is connecting communities through a modern, world-class rail service.

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

Queensland Rail are seeking an experienced Senior Manager Signalling & Telecommunications Maintenance to join our SEQ Assets team based in Brisbane CBD. This is a permanent, full-time leadership opportunity responsible for one of Queensland Rail's most critical infrastructure portfolios.

Reporting to the Asset Maintenance Delivery Director, you will provide strategic and operational leadership for the maintenance of Queensland Rail's South East Queensland signalling and telecommunications network while overseeing the statewide delivery of signalling and telecommunications construction activities. Leading a large, multidisciplinary workforce, you will drive asset reliability, operational performance, safety outcomes, and network readiness to support the growing demands of Queensland's rail network.

Progress That Counts

Queensland Rail is helping shape the future of transport in Queensland. As we prepare to welcome millions of visitors for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we are delivering one of the largest rail infrastructure investment programs in the state's history.

Major initiatives underway include:

• Cross River Rail, transforming travel across South East Queensland and supporting a projected increase to more than 80 million passenger journeys annually over the next decade.
• Introduction of the European Train Control System (ETCS) to modernise network operations and improve capacity.
• Delivery of The Wave and the Beerburrum to Nambour Rail Upgrade.
• Construction of three new stations on the Gold Coast line.
• The $5.75 billion Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail Project.
• Introduction of 65 new rollingstock units from the Queensland Train Manufacturing Program.

Learn more about The Wave project Click Here

About the Role

As a member of the SEQ Asset Maintenance Senior Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping maintenance and asset management strategies across Queensland Rail's signalling and telecommunications portfolio.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing strategic leadership within a complex passenger rail and infrastructure environment, balancing safety, customer outcomes, commercial performance, and operational excellence.
• Leading the maintenance, reliability, and lifecycle management of signalling and telecommunications assets to optimise network performance and availability.
• Driving operational readiness and the successful integration of new technologies, assets, major projects, and transformative ways of working.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders, project delivery teams, industry partners, regulators, and other rail operators.
• Leading a high-performing workforce that fosters collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Delivering business objectives, performance targets, safety commitments, and financial outcomes across maintenance and construction activities.
• Developing and implementing contemporary asset management, maintenance, reliability, and risk management strategies across a diverse and expanding asset base.
• Delivering SEQ Assets transformation and change program.

About You

You are a highly regarded leader with deep technical expertise and a proven track record managing critical infrastructure within a complex operational environment.

To be successful, you will bring:

• Extensive experience in signalling and telecommunications maintenance, construction, and asset management, ideally within the rail industry or another safety-critical heavy asset environment.
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale maintenance and infrastructure delivery functions at a senior management level.
• Strong strategic leadership capabilities, with expertise in asset lifecycle management, reliability improvement, risk management, and operational performance.
• Experience leading organisational change, operational transformation, and the integration of new technologies and infrastructure.
• Outstanding stakeholder engagement, influencing, negotiation, and relationship management skills, with the ability to build trusted partnerships across diverse groups.
• A commitment to safety leadership, people development, and fostering high-performing and engaged teams.
• A track record of delivering measurable business improvements in service reliability, asset performance, customer outcomes, and financial performance

To learn more about this role - full Position Description here

Your journey matters. Make it with us.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Queensland Rail. We offer real opportunities for meaningful contribution, while shaping your career for the future.

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.

We provide reasonable adjustments to support candidates and employees.

If you do require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact Ryan Curry via the details below.

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 also include psychometric assessments, pre-employment health checks and background screenings, which could involve criminal history and credit checks, if this applies to the pre-employment requirements for this role.

For roles that have pre-employment qualifications, we will also be required to do formal qualification verification processes to ensure qualifications align to Queensland Rail's pre-employment frameworks.