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About the Role

This role offers an opportunity to broaden experience and perspectives by working with an interconnected ecosystem of industry professionals, impacting millions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project development activities across rail and heavy rail initiatives with autonomy.
• Provide hands-on leadership for junior team members.
• Drive options analysis and early-stage investment thinking to identify value-for-money solutions.
• Shape recommendations and partner with the Centre of Excellence on business case development.
• Act as the sponsor’s delegate for complex rail initiatives, managing scope, risks, and interfaces.
• Ensure projects progress through assurance and governance frameworks.
• Engage and influence internal stakeholders, including Sydney Metro and other IPE partners, to align priorities and resolve competing interests.
• Deliver integrated network outcomes.
• Provide people leadership within a small, high-impact team, balancing delivery with coaching, performance management, and capability uplift.
• Apply deep rail and project management expertise to anticipate issues and guide decision-making.
• Ensure initiatives are technically robust, deliverable, and aligned to whole-of-network outcomes.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading complex rail and heavy rail projects.
• Strong end-to-end project management capability.
• Confidence operating independently in ambiguous environments.
• Deep understanding of government investment and assurance frameworks.
• Proven experience delivering robust options analysis and early-stage investment advice.
• Comfortable acting as a sponsor’s delegate, setting direction, managing risk and interfaces, and leading multidisciplinary activities.
• Ability to engage effectively with senior stakeholders across Transport to align priorities and resolve competing interests.
• Experienced people leader capable of managing and developing a small team.
• Ability to provide hands-on guidance while fostering accountability and capability uplift.

Skills

• Project Management
• Options Analysis
• Investment Thinking
• Stakeholder Engagement
• People Leadership
• Risk Management
• Governance Frameworks

Location

• Sydney Metro

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Extensive experience leading complex rail and heavy rail projects
• Experienced people leader

Benefits

• Flexible work options may be available

About the Company

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

Equal Opportunity

• Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply.