Chief People and Culture Officer, Transport and Main Roads

Shape the future of TMR's workforce, leading transformation to deliver connected communities and a thriving Queensland through people, culture and capability.

• Lead a large-scale People & Culture function with executive influence and statewide impact.

• Drive enterprise-level workforce planning, IR strategy, and organisational design to lift productivity.

• Modernise systems, frameworks, and governance to enable faster, data-led decision making.

About the Department:

TMR is one of Queensland's largest delivery agencies, operating a federated model, centrally led, locally delivered, across a substantial infrastructure and services program. The Corporate Division (Human Resources; Governance; Internal Audit; Legal, Information Access & Prosecutions) partners with the business to drive performance, streamline decision making and safeguard delivery.

The next phase prioritises commercial discipline: modernising processes, digitising core people systems and aligning capability to program demand.

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Deputy Director-General (Corporate), you will lead a 100-person People & Culture function and set a whole-of-agency people strategy that enables delivery at pace and scale. The remit spans workforce planning and organisation design, enterprise bargaining and IR strategy, leadership capability uplift, and an operating model shift, transitioning to a more commercially aligned strategic advisory function. Success looks like faster, simpler, data-led decisions that improve cost, risk and service outcomes.

• Lead the HR Branch (100 FTE) and steward an operating budget aligned to delivery priorities.

• Lead and execute enterprise bargaining strategy across multiple agreements.

• Drive workforce planning, organisation design and change to lift productivity across a federated model.

• Modernise fundamentals, frameworks, policies, SLAs, governance, and embed clear performance metrics.

• Represent TMR in whole-of-government forums shaping sector-wide workforce priorities.

Required Experience:

• You are a commercially minded professional who reads the economics behind the workforce, builds executive confidence, and delivers visible improvements in speed, cost, capability and service.

• Executive leadership of a sizeable, multi-disciplinary people function in complex or regulated settings. State government experience is highly desirable.

• Enterprise-level workforce planning and organisation design with proven productivity and delivery outcomes.

• Industrial relations leadership, including enterprise bargaining strategy and negotiations.

• Track record simplifying policy and process through digitisation, automation and data-driven decision support.

• Sophisticated stakeholder influence at ELT/Board level; resilient, clear communicator who leads transformation.

• Formal HR qualifications are welcome but not essential, commercial acumen and a strategic mindset are paramount.

Benefits:

This is a mandate-rich, impact-heavy leadership role: scale, complexity and direct line-of-sight to outcomes. You'll shape the people economics of a major delivery agency, steward a significant budget and function, and modernise how decisions get made across a federated business. Expect executive exposure, authority to simplify, a clear runway for change, and the satisfaction of converting strategy into measurable improvements in speed, cost, capability and service.

How to Apply:

Applications are being handled exclusively by u&u Recruitment Partners, therefore please visit ( ) to submit your current CV and a maximum one-page cover letter (referring to the role description). Applications close 17th October 2025 at 4pm AEST.

Applications will remain current for a period of 12 months.