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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 12.75% super.
- Opportunity to be part of a major legacy project.
- Join a rail industry leader.
- Collaborative and engaged workplace and team environment.
- Genuine work life balance.
- Free Citytrain travel to and from work and access to other free or discounted SEQ rail travel.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing employees with holistic and contemporary health and wellbeing programs.

About this role:

Entering Queensland Rail's Major Projects division, you will be working on The Wave Greenfield Stage 2 Project as a HV & Traction Lead.

This role provides a critical technical assurance and coordination function, ensuring HV traction infrastructure is safe, compliant, fit-for-purpose and operationally effective. Working within a complex multi-disciplinary environment, you will collaborate with designers, contractors, project teams and stakeholders to coordinate technical interfaces,



review and assure project deliverables, manage risks and issues and support the successful delivery of HV traction infrastructure across all project phases. Your expertise will help ensure project outcomes align with operational requirements, technical standards, and business objectives, contributing to the delivery of a transformative rail infrastructure project for South East Queensland.

About this Opportunity:

This fixed term opportunity is available through to 31 January 2032, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to contribute to a landmark rail infrastructure project.

You will work within a flexible and collaborative environment, supporting project delivery across Queensland Rail's Carseldine and Brisbane CBD offices, Transport and Main Roads offices, stakeholder locations, and project sites. The successful candidate will demonstrate the adaptability and flexibility required to work effectively across these environments, supporting project delivery and stakeholder engagement.

You can expect some of your responsibilities to include:

- Manage the delivery of the HV traction engineering works, coordinating delivery, safety, cost and quality outcomes to meet business needs and expectations.




- Ensure project teams demonstrate professional integrity and sound engineering practice in the development and delivery of HV traction engineering solutions that meet operational requirements and project objectives.
- Build and manage relationships with clients, customers, project managers and other stakeholders to facilitate effective HV traction engineering strategies and governance procedures and where applicable, build capability.
- Provide program status and outcomes to meet business requirements and to support the development, of accurate and timely program reporting.
- Ensure HV traction engineering interfaces are managed including internal delivery, outsourced work and delivery partners interfacing significantly to ensure customer needs are met throughout the project.
- Achieve the Wave targets, objectives, performance measures, and safety responsibilities, while continually seeking opportunities to improve project performance and innovation outcomes.

What you can bring to the role:

- Demonstrated expertise in Design, Renewals, Implementation, Testing and Commissioning of rail infrastructure, particularly HV traction infrastructure, to support safe, reliable, and sustainable railway operations.
- High level interpersonal, communication, planning, coordination, and negotiation skills to manage, design and document safe and sustainable HV traction engineering outcomes.
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership, specialist advice, and influence across multidisciplinary teams of professional engineers, technical specialists and project stakeholders.
- Robust knowledge of statutory, regulatory and policy obligations, to satisfy operational, safety, environment and contractual requirements and processes within a complex rail infrastructure environment.
- Substantial level of

📌 HV & Traction Lead (Brisbane)
🏢 Queensland Rail
📍 Brisbane