Requirements Manager

You’ll connect Queensland. We’ll connect you to an amazing career.

Our team of over 7,500 and our customers are central to everything we do, we have a proud history as a safe and reliable railway operator, with a commitment to ensuring that our operating systems reflect the highest standards. Queensland Rail inspires innovative thought, passionate motivation, teamwork, and forward thinking, where our people can achieve their own career aspirations.

Why Queensland Rail?

We will provide you with an exciting and diverse career opportunity to join a company that continues to strive in the delivery of a modern and world-class railway provider, you will be able to lead and apply your innovative thoughts to enhance our rail network. For this role we also offer:

• Highly competitive salary plus 12.75% super
• Opportunity to be part of a major legacy project
• Join a rail industry leader
• Collaborative and engaged workplace and team environment.
• Genuine work life balance
• Free Citytrain travel to and from work and access to other free or discounted SEQ rail travel
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing employees with holistic and contemporary health and wellbeing programs.

About this role:

Entering Queensland Rail’s Major Projects division, you will be working with the System Integration and Assurance Team as a Requirements Manager. You will be using your systems engineering assurance, requirements management, verification and validation expertise and leadership skills within a multi-disciplinary and multi-party environment, ensuring solutions are safe, compliant, and operationally effective.

This role is a fixed term role until 31 January, 2031 based in Brisbane CBD.

You can expect some of your responsibilities to include:

• Provide strategic leadership to the Requirements Community of Practice, driving the adoption, consistent application and continuous improvement of requirements engineering best practices across projects and programs.
• Establish and implement effective requirements management, including the development and maintenance of relevant Requirements Management procedures and guidelines as relevant for each project.
• Advocate and provide expert feedback and input from projects into the Queensland Rail Requirements Management Framework, Requirements Management procedures and guidelines to facilitate smooth handover on project delivery.
• Lead assurance reviews and audits of systems engineering, requirements management and verification and validation processes to ensure project delivery partners operate in accordance with approved plans, Queensland Rail requirements, and industry best practice.
• Foster strong collaboration with project stakeholders, principals, and delivery partner counterparts to ensure project deliverables meet Queensland Rail's requirements and quality expectations.
• Provide leadership to elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, business analysis, task and workflow analysis.
• Lead the writing of requirements specifications according to international standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 and Queensland Rail standards and procedures, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely, ensuring they are specific, measurable, attainable, realisable and traceable and issue new baselines for Requirements Specifications when approved changes are implemented.
• Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints and other non-functional requirements and ensure traceability of requirements to verification and validation evidence.
• Assume accountability for ensuring that all requirements are allocated and confirm that requirements are transmitted and accepted by the entity responsible for their implementation.
• Lead requirements verification and validation process and participate in formal gate reviews (design, construction and commissioning) to assess compliance of the technical outputs against the requirements.

What you can bring to the role:

• High level leadership, analytical thinking, problem solving and management skills to deliver consistent and optimal outcomes across large, dynamic and complex safety-orientated organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of rail infrastructure systems, engineering disciplines, and interrelationships between engineering, operational, and assurance functions.
• Extensive knowledge of relevant engineering legislation, standards, operations and practices and their application within rail systems and operations.
• Extensive knowledge of rail transport operations, associated legislation and organisational governance principles within the Rail Industry.
• Extensive experience in the use and administration of IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next Generation application.
• Highly desirable experience with other IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) applications, including Engineering Workflow Management (EWM), Engineering Test Management (ETM) and Engineering Lifecyle Optimization - Publishing (PUB).
• Demonstrated expertise in requirements development, analysis, and management, with the ability to engage stakeholders and facilitate workshops to elicit, define, validate, and gain agreement on requirements.
• High level of influencing, interpersonal, consultation, stakeholder engagement, relationship management, and negotiation skills, with a demonstrated ability to build and sustain productive relationships and partnerships across diverse stakeholder groups.

For further information on the role, click HERE to read the position description

Progress that Counts

Joining Queensland Rail means being part of an exciting future where you'll welcome millions of international passengers for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Our Cross River Rail project will transform travel across the South East Queensland network, doubling passenger journeys to 80 million over the next decade.

To support this growth and enhance customer experiences, we're committed to key initiatives, including The Wave project for the Sunshine Coast along with Beerburrum to Nambour upgrade, building three new Gold Coastline stations, implementing the $5.75 billion Logan and Gold Coast Faster Rail Project, introducing 65 new Next Generation Rolling Stock trains, improving station accessibility at eight main stations, boosting North Coast Line capacity and upgrading Central Station.

Your journey matters. Make it with us.

There has never been a more exciting time within Queensland Rail. We offer boundless opportunities to support your career today and for your future.

Apply for our role via our website by clicking the apply button before 11.59pm Thursday, October 22nd, 2026

Applicants for roles at Queensland Rail may undergo pre-employment alcohol and drug testing if they advance in the recruitment process. The selection process may include psychometric assessments, pre-employment health checks and background screenings, which could involve criminal history and credit checks.

To learn more about this career opportunity, please contact James Conlan via email at [email protected]

We’re a team of thousands and we’re proud of our individual journeys and stories. And as we grow, we need more diverse backgrounds and perspectives than ever before. We are committed to facilitating a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, we welcome you to let us know so we can work with you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.