There are two temporary opportunities for the role of Director (Project Controls) within the European Train Control System, Passenger Rollingstock and Signalling in the Rail Division.
The Director (Project Controls) holds responsibility for program-wide project controls within the ETCS Program, ensuring the successful planning, coordination, and delivery of deployment activities in partnership with major infrastructure projects.
This includes working closely with Project Managers, interfacing with program management office functions, and overseeing the delivery of key activities such as data radio and ETCS deployment across the network.
The role is responsible for partnering with delivery teams to identify and resolve barriers to project progress, while working collaboratively with Queensland Rail to support the effective integration of ETCS. Through strong stakeholder engagement and alignment with broader network objectives, the Director plays a critical role in driving operational readiness and ensuring successful program outcomes.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
Lead and oversee the end-to-end delivery of program-wide project controls, including performance reporting, financial management, risk management, and scheduling, ensuring the effective governance, integrity and successful delivery of outcomes across the ETCS Program.
Provide authoritative strategic and operational advice to senior executives, influencing key decisions on program performance, governance priorities, investment considerations, and delivery strategies within a complex, high-profile environment.
Lead and oversee the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of all program performance reporting, including the development and delivery of reporting to project boards, steering committees and governance forums to enable informed executive decision-making
Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of project controls and governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with departmental policy, legislative requirements and best practice for major infrastructure delivery.
Provide expert leadership as the technical authority for project controls disciplines, including financial management, risk management, scheduling and performance reporting, ensuring the application of contemporary methodologies and continuous improvement of systems and processes.
Lead and oversee financial governance and performance, including forecasting, monitoring and oversight of program financial outcomes in accordance with corporate requirements and value-for-money principles
Lead and oversee embedding effective risk management practices across the program, including directing the identification, assessment and mitigation of complex and emerging risks to support delivery certainty.
Exercise high-level judgement in resolving complex, multi-disciplinary issues, including engineering, legal, contractual and financial matters, balancing competing priorities across stakeholders, delivery partners and government objectives.
Determine priorities for escalation and governance consideration, ensuring critical risks, issues and performance matters are appropriately managed and communicated to support timely decision-making.
Represent TMR in senior governance forums and high-level stakeholder engagements, building and sustaining strategic relationships across government, delivery partners and industry to ensure alignment and integration of program outcomes.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.
Job Ad Reference: QLD/694083/26
Closing Date: Thursday, 16 July 2026<space>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.
