Working at Rail Projects Victoria

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Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) delivers the Metro Tunnel Project, Regional Rail Revival, Melbourne Airport Rail and a portfolio of other rail projects.

Together, our projects will create thousands of jobs across Victoria. Find out how to join our team.

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Jobs at RPV

Chief Executive Officer

We are recruiting a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to deliver some of the biggest transport infrastructure projects ever built in Victoria, including the Metro Tunnel, Regional Rail Revival and Melbourne Airport Rail.

The CEO provides visionary leadership for RPV and is accountable for all aspects of strategy and governance for the RPV’s projects and its people.

They will work across a portfolio of work including in the areas of front-end development, program management, contract negotiation and contract management. The successful candidate will drive a high-performing culture that embraces change, innovation and continuous improvement.

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Why work at RPV?

Employees at RPV have access to a wide variety of opportunities, with an extensive range of career and capability development programs designed to develop our team. We want you to grow, develop and learn with us.

Our vision is to build a safe and trusting environment that values and pursues balance and health and provides a strong platform for continuous development and high performance.

At Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) we have one of the most progressive wellbeing programs in the Victorian Public Service. We recognise that our people are critical to our ability to deliver business outcomes, and we understand that a holistic approach is required in engaging, satisfying and retaining our people. Our vision is to build a safe and trusting environment that values and pursues balance and health and provides a strong platform for continuous development and high performance.

Our wellbeing program covers a wide range of health and wellbeing topics and themes. We offer yearly flu vaccinations and skin checks, guest speaker events, lunchtime activities, Mental Health First Aid training – just to name a few!

RPV is committed to providing an inclusive, trusting and supporting working environment that positively affects the mental health and wellbeing of our people.

We understand that life balance is an important part of our employees' lives. That's why we have developed and implemented a wide range of flexible work/life balance options such as working from home, flexible working hours and generous leave provisions including the 44/52 model of employment.

The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides access to professional advice to help our staff and their immediate families cope with life's difficult issues. This is a personal coaching and counselling service that offers confidential, short-term support for a variety of work-related and personal problems that may be affecting you or your immediate family members.

Inclusion is a core part of working at RPV – we’re committed to creating a safe, understanding, and inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to be their full and authentic selves. We are a workplace that values the diversity of thoughts and experiences each of us possesses, applauds collaboration and innovation, and seeks to advance equity in all its forms.

As part of our commitments, we have a range of initiatives to help foster an inclusive workplace, including:

Trainbow Pride (our LGBTIQA+ pride group), Wear it Purple and IDAHOBIT Day celebrations
Women in Transport Network (a networking group for women of all lived experiences and identities) and International Women’s Day celebrations
NAIDOC and National Reconciliation Week celebrations, as well as a partnership with Kinaway Chamber of Commerce
Annual participation in STEPtember and International Day of People with Disability celebrations
Harmony Week celebrations and options to substitute Public Holidays for another day of religious or cultural significance.

Rail Projects Victoria along with its contractors and their sub-contractors will secure a diverse and inclusive workforce capable of unprecedented collaboration.

The Metro Tunnel contractors are required to achieve the Major Project Skills Guarantee with 10% of workforce being apprentices, trainees or engineering cadets. In addition, Metro Tunnel contractors are required to achieve an Aboriginal Employment Target of 2.5% as well as employment targets for Priority Jobseekers.

We want you to grow, develop and learn with us. We want your work to provide you with a strong sense of purpose and achievement.

We adopt the 70:20:10 philosophy where what you do, and how you do it, is equally important in contributing to your career aspirations as the formal training you attend. We are focused on giving you work that offers the stretch and experiences to set you up for your next role.

We encourage formal training and support relevant study via financial assistance and leave provisions for approved courses.

Jobs created include:

acousticians
administrative assistants
apprentices
architects
carpenters
commercial specialists
communications professionals
concretors
designers
document controllers
electricians
engineers - civil
engineers - mechanical
engineering cadets
graduates
human resource managers
ICT professionals
labourers
lawyers
mechanical fitters
OHS advisors
overhead line workers
plant operators
plumbers
project engineers
project managers
safety specialists
senior project managers
signalling engineers
site engineers
stakeholder managers
steel fixers
systems integration specialists
track workers
traffic control managers
trainees
trainers
truck drivers