Roster Design Specialist

Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW

Job category: Projects

Job location: Eveleigh, NSW, AU, 2015

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Employment type: Fixed Term Full-Time

Salary range: $ .0-$ .0

You’re someone who wants to create outcomes that have a real impact on the people of NSW.

Here's your chance to design and deliver efficient, customer-focused services that also enhance accessibility, sustainability and overall quality of living for more people than you've imagined.

In this role, you'll:

Working as part of a team delivering workforce rostering, planning and operational readiness outcomes, this role plays a key part in ensuring Transport for NSW has the right people, in the right place, at the right time to meet service delivery needs. This role will see you design, develop and maintain compliant and efficient workforce rosters, analyse workforce data and patterns, and collaborate closely with operational leaders to support day of operations readiness.

You'll also contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, workforce planning tools and systems, and help strengthen the employee experience through fair, transparent and sustainable rostering practices. You will lead and shape effective rostering and resource optimisation solutions in a complex, fast paced operational environment with competing priorities, diverse stakeholder needs and rigorous industrial and compliance requirements.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

Qualifications

You're an experienced workforce planning and rostering professional with a strong track record working in large, complex and operationally diverse organisations. You bring practical experience in workforce planning, rostering and resource optimisation,



supported by a solid understanding of workforce management systems, rostering tools and data analytics. You have working knowledge of industrial agreements, compliance requirements and workforce governance processes, and you're confident applying these in an operational setting. Your strong analytical, problem solving and stakeholder engagement skills enable you to support collaborative decision making and deliver effective, sustainable rostering outcomes.

You'll hold tertiary qualifications or have equivalent industry based experience, along with demonstrated experience managing the delivery of rostering or workforce scheduling services within a large and complex operational environment. This is a Temporary Fixed Term role until 30 June 2027, based in Transport Management Centre (TMC) -Eveleigh. The salary for this position is a Transport Grade 8 ($141,678- $158,677) per annum plus superannuation.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a secure, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

Applications close 11:59 PM Thursday 30 July 2026

For more information about this role, please contact

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal People or Supporting People with Disability for more information or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

Transport acknowledges the Aboriginal people of the country on which we work, their traditions, culture and a shared history and identity. We also pay our respects to Elders past and present and recognise the continued connection to country.

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📌 Roster Design Specialist (City of Sydney)
🏢 Nsw Public Service Commission
📍 City of Sydney