Job Description

This is a newly created role at a pivotal moment. The right person will relish the chance to leave a lasting mark on safety culture across one of Australia's most significant public sector organisations.

Safety culture isn't built overnight, but with the right strategy and the right leader, it can be transformed. This is safety at scale!

In this role you'll:

• Report to our Executive Director Work Health & Safety (WH&S) within our Safety, Policy, Environment & Regulation division.
• Shape the future of workplace health and safety at an enterprise level, leading the development of a new three-year WHS strategy across Transport for NSW and its rail agencies
• Drive a genuinely holistic safety culture, one that encompasses all aspects of the safety domain.
• Lead and develop a team of four WH&S experts, influencing executive leaders across multiple agencies with diverse cultures and varying levels of safety maturity
• Partner with our People, Culture and Workplace division to embed safety and wellbeing into the broader organisational culture, ensuring a joined-up approach to how we look after our people
• Apply a multidisciplinary lens, drawing on systems thinking, human factors, occupational health or safety engineering to reduce risk and embed lasting behavioural change
• Shape the full safety lifecycle, from day-to-day operations and incident management through to long-term strategic planning and continuous improvement frameworks

This is a permanent Transport Senior Service Manager (TSSM) role. Please see the and Information Pack for more information

About you

You bring significant senior WH&S leadership experience from an industrial or heavy industry environment, either transport, infrastructure, utilities, construction or similar. You understand high-risk operational realities, but your expertise extends well beyond physical risk management. You think deeply about how organisations reduce harm from all hazards including psychosocial risks and chronic stress to systemic culture gaps, and you know how to translate that thinking into practical strategy.

Your background may be grounded in human factors, occupational health, systems engineering or traditional operational safety management. What matters most is a multidisciplinary perspective paired with experience influencing executive level decision making. You're comfortable navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and bringing diverse leadership teams on a shared journey.

Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and professional membership of a recognised safety body are expected. Most importantly, you're a strategic thinker who is energised by the opportunity to build something meaningful.

Who we are

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

Join us

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

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days.

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us. Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59 pm Tuesday 24th March 2026.

For more information about this role, please contact EFFIE.ROGARIS@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 info or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us.

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