Senior Interface Manager - Northern NSW
About Inland Rail
The Inland Rail Program is a 1600km rail infrastructure project stretching from Brisbane to Melbourne incorporating new and existing rail track. The program includes the upgrading of existing standard gauge track, the enhancement of existing standard gauge track to cater for double stacking and the construction of new standard gauge links comprising of viaducts, tunnels, rail track, crossings and bridges. More information relating to the project can be found here: Inland Rail
About the opportunity
This
opportunity is a senior leadership role which will drive integration and
coordination across the Northern NSW Portfolio, ensuring alignment with
government, assurance, commercial, and technical requirements. As a key
strategic partner, you will lead cross-functional integration, influence
business decisions, and develop short, medium, and long-term initiatives to
drive performance against Inland Rail’s Strategic Plan, Balanced Scorecard, and
Strategic Pillars.
Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Lead the integration across functions and business activities to influence key business decisions.
- Lead the coordination at a Northern NSW Program level to provide inputs to investment decisions, including updated cost estimates and constructability inputs.
- Work to build an operating environment to support a highly capable delivery team with the requisite skills, knowledge, experience and capability to execute against project objectives.
- Identify the strategic need and prioritisation of interface coordination including third party interfaces and ensuring that planning activities are executed in compliance with both internal and external requirements and governance processes.
- Assist in the preparation of accurate and high standard reporting at all levels, including Chief Development Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Board and Shareholder Department reporting; as well as briefings and Senate Estimates inputs.
- Provide visible leadership and change management within the NNSW team to embed team culture in line with the stated Vision, Purpose, Values and Ways of Working of IRPL and the NNSW Team.
- Establish and maintain effective levels of influence and working relationships with the Executive Leadership Team, North of Narromine Leadership team and Program Directors across the Inland Rail Program to enable NNSW to deliver to organisational requirements in an efficient manner.
About You
To be
successful in this role you will need to be a strategic and results-driven
professional with strong commercial acumen and exceptional stakeholder
management skills. You thrive in
high-pressure environments, balancing operational delivery with a big-picture
focus, and brings a proven ability to manage competing priorities, resolve
challenges, and drive outcomes. With excellent communication, leadership, and
problem-solving abilities, you will be collaborative, proactive, and adaptable,
ensuring success in delivering critical outcomes for a major infrastructure
program.
To ensure success in this position, applicants will be able to demonstrate:
- Experience in a ‘direct client’ capacity in leading the integration of design packages and technical investigations of transport infrastructure projects over $10M in value to influence key business decisions and meet scope, time, quality, risk, budget and reporting requirements.
- Ability to articulate project outcomes and establish business plans, goals, objectives and strategies, including competence in developing an operating environment to meet key business/ performance objectives.
- Experience in the identification of systems improvements and data requirements needed to lift business performance, as well as proven delivery of initiatives to achieve these.
- Experience and success in leading collaborative scenarios across integrated design teams, external providers and stakeholders to deliver best for project outcomes.
- Established working relationships with, and understanding of the processes of, third party agencies and organisations critical to the success of the Inland Rail program including Transport for NSW.
- Developed communication, collaboration, influencing, negotiation and interpersonal skills, with the ability to prepare quality, timely and factual reporting and information.
- Tertiary qualifications in Regional/Town Planning, Law, Civil Engineering or equivalent.
Desirable
Selection Criteria
- Sound knowledge of NSW, Australian Government and council processes and procedures for infrastructure investment decision-making, third-party agreements, environmental assessment and planning.
- Understanding of the application of emerging government priorities and initiatives such sustainability, resilience, digital transformation, innovation, people and place outcomes and Reconciliation.
- Delivery across multiple phases of the infrastructure lifecycle including strategic, development, construction, operational and asset management phases.
- Australian Standards for track infrastructure including the railway National Code of Practice.
Apply Now
If this opportunity sounds like the challenge you have been looking for please apply online today.
As part of the application process, you will be required to undergo pre-employment criminal history, reference and medical checks, including drug and alcohol testing. Inland Rail is a drug and alcohol-free working environment.
Applications close: Monday 21st April 2025.
Please note that applications are reviewed from point of advertising so don’t delay your application.
