Working at VIDA Rail

Elevated rail and new station over Murrumbeena Road.

From engineers and construction workers to safety advisers and community engagement professionals, the VIDA Rail employs a range of experts.

About VIDA Rail

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VIDA Rail is the organisation delivering rail projects including the Level Crossing Removal Project, Regional Rail Revival, Melbourne Airport Rail and Big Build Rail .

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Fields of work

We offer a broad range of career opportunities in Melbourne CBD as well as roles out on sites across Melbourne as part of the project delivery.

Find out more about some of VIDA Rail's main career streams below.

The Engineering team is responsible for ensuring infrastructure is planned, designed and constructed to optimise environmental, social and economic outcomes.

The Land and Property Development team is responsible for ensuring that land and property management activities – such as leasing, acquisition and sale – are consistently managed throughout all stages of the project.

Our Project Delivery teams oversee and coordinate the VIDA Rail's work to remove 110 of Melbourne's level crossings and deliver other major rail projects.

Our teams of Project Managers and Engineers work with our alliance partners and technical advisors to scope and implement project designs.

The Strategic Communications branch manages stakeholder relations activities and corporate affairs functions, including:

stakeholder engagement and communications
call centre management
marketing and branding
media relations
internal communications
digital and social media.

The Construction Interface and Controls branch ensures consistency in scoping, requirements, staging and construction across all our projects.

They measure, analyse, monitor and report on project/package schedules, costs, risks, and quality.

The Utilities team provides a resource support function for project teams and is a single point of contact for liaising with external utilities agencies.

Safety is a core value of VIDA Rail and is considered in all that we do. The Safety team's objective is to provide a safe workplace, prevent harm and inspire exceptional Health and Safety performance.

They empower our people to create a collaborative and transparent culture where everybody is capable of identifying, reporting and managing unsafe conditions and behaviours.

The Safety branch consists of Specialist Safety Advisers and Safety Advisers who are aligned with certain VIDA Rail project packages.

Our Industry, Capability and Inclusion (ICI) team helps promote diversity and social inclusion, while building the people, training and infrastructure of rail.

The Commercial and Legal division is responsible for a variety of functions, including managing:

legal compliance
disputes
probity matters
Freedom of Information requests
contracts
strategic procurement planning.

Our Executive Services branch provides support to the Chief Executive Officer and our Governance team, which coordinates VIDA Rail business and intra-government reporting.

Great people are at the heart of everything we do at VIDA Rail. The People and Culture team strategically partner with the business to help build and maintain a high performing workforce.

The People and Culture branch comprises of:

Talent Acquisition
People Analytics
Design and Architecture
Business Partnerships.

The Finance and Administration team consists of:

Business Services and Facilities, which manages office services and supplies
Finance, which provides financial services support across the organisation
Records and Information, which manages the running and security of our main systems
Audit, Risk and Assurance, which is responsible for ensuring that VIDA Rail has a strong and efficient internal control framework.

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