You’re excited by opportunities to explore your potential and try something new.
You have the opportunity to gain a wealth of expertise and a diverse range of skills, providing insight and knowledge without losing sight of your work-life balance or wellbeing.
In this role, you'll:
Working as part of a team delivering the risk management function for major work packages, ensuring risks are identified, analysed, reported and managed to support successful project delivery.
This role will see you manage and coordinate risk management activities, provide specialist risk advice and quantitative risk assessment, develop and maintain risk registers, support risk‑based decision making, facilitate risk workshops, monitor risk performance and trends, and build organisational capability through staff development and knowledge transfer initiatives.
You will lead the identification, management and mitigation of risk in a dynamic, complex major infrastructure project environment where risks continually evolve and require proactive, strategic management.
For more information on this position and business unit, view the and information pack.
Please note there are various fixed term opportunities available across the Southwest Metro, Western Sydney Airport Metro and Metro West Projects. Please indicate any preferences via cover letter.
About you
Your risk management, analytical and stakeholder engagement skills formed across major infrastructure projects, program or project management environments, or large complex organisations will see you excel in identifying and minimising risk exposures, providing strategic and operational risk advice, and supporting risk‑based decision making to lead to effective risk mitigation, informed decision making and improved project outcomes.
You’re recognized as a trusted and credible risk management professional, skilled at facilitating risk identification and treatment processes, experienced in managing and coordinating risk functions within large, complex project environments.
Who we are
Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.
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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
Flexible work options may be available. Learn more via Flexible work options and policy
Apply today
Applications close 11:59 PM Sunday 12 July 2026
For more information about this role, please contact AMBER.TRAVERS@TRANSPORT.NSW.GOV.AU.
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.
Learn more about how to apply via Our recruitment process | Transport for NSW
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