Principal Workforce Planner

**Req. Id**:9847

**Date**:23 Jun 2025

**Location**:Brisbane, QLD, AU, 4000

**Company**:Queensland Rail

**You’ll connect Queensland. We’ll connect you to an amazing career.**
- Queensland Rail has such an exciting future and whilst the way we deliver services may look different in years to come, our commitment to connecting communities will remain unchanged.
- Queensland Rail is looking for a Workforce Planning Specialist to join our People Planning team on a **temporary full-time basis until 30/06/2026**(with the possibility of extension). This is an exciting time to join our team and be part of delivering an Enterprise Workforce Planning initiative for the organisation, through data-driven practical solutions to workforce challenges such as skills shortages, technological change and major infrastructure projects.

**Your Opportunity**
- You will join a small but ambitious team in a large, complex organisation where workforce planning maturity is still developing. That means real opportunities to shape our direction, bring stakeholders on the journey, and design fit-for-purpose workforce strategies that drive business impact. You’ll enjoy the opportunity to partner with the broader People, Safety and Sustainability team and business leaders to:

- Undertake workforce planning activities including workforce segmentation, environment and horizon scanning, and labour market research, to identify critical capabilities and capability gaps.
- Develop actionable workforce plans to meet short, medium and long-term business objectives.
- Assist in developing and implementing processes across the business, by leveraging integrated planning, systems and reporting to understand workforce impacts from changes in demand and supply.
- Maintain and continually improve workforce planning frameworks and tools to ensure consistency and rigour in workforce decisions across the business.
- This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career, influence meaningful change, and help foster a forward-thinking, data-drive culture during one of the most exciting times in Queensland Rail’s history.

**Benefits that Count**
- All that Queensland Rail achieves each day relies on the hard work and talent of our teams. That’s why we offer a range of attractive benefits designed to help you bring your best, including:

- Starting salary of $151,359,240 plus 12.75% superannuation.
- Balance your work and personal life with flexible working options including hybrid working arrangements.
- Enjoy free rail travel on the Citytrain network to and from work, along with discounted rail travel on Queensland Rail Travel trains.
- QRI Lifestyle offers members access to over 2,000 exclusive discounts and services.
- Prioritise your physical, emotional and financial wellbeing with our range of free services.
- You and your family can get fit and have fun with access to over 380 gyms and pools with our Fitness Passport.

**About you**
- We’re looking for someone who is:

- A clear and confident communicator - able to translate technical workforce data into insights that make sense to people across every level of the organisation.
- Collaborative and resilient - who thrives working with diverse stakeholders and is energised by solving complex business problems.
- Naturally curious and solutions-focused - someone who sees ambiguity as an invitation to innovate.
- Ideally has experience using some or all of the systems currently utilised by Queensland Rail: Microsoft Excel, PowerBI, SAP, Tableau and Anaplan.
- You'll work closely with our operational teams, People and Finance Business Partners, and senior leaders to embed planning capability, influence decisions with evidence-based insights, and help us build the foundations for an enterprise-wide workforce strategy.
- For further details please view the Position Description

**Your journey matters. Make it with us.**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR CURRENT QUEENSLAND RAIL EMPLOYEES**:
**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**
- Queensland Rail is committed to a diverse workforce that is reflective of the customers and communities we serve.
We are inclusive, collaborative, respectful, and value our differences. We are 1TEAM, where everyone belongs.