About this role
You’ll connect Queensland. We’ll connect you to an amazing career.
Queensland Rail stands on the foundation of true connection, encompassing the relationships we foster within our teams and the communities we serve across the state. For 160 years, we've been instrumental in linking people and places, and now we invite you to contribute to our proud legacy and shape a brighter, sustainable future.
Learn more about Queensland Rail’s purpose, people, and progress – watch our short video here
About this Opportunity
Queensland Rail has a new opportunity for a Permanent People Adviser to join our HR Central People Services team.
Supporting over 8,000 employees across Queensland, you'll partner with leaders across a diverse and operationally complex organisation, providing expert advice on a broad range of people matters. This role offers the opportunity to develop deep HR generalist expertise while working with a supportive and highly collaborative team.
In this role, you will deliver guidance on a wide range of people and culture matters including policy and enterprise agreement interpretation, salary and entitlements, recruitment and onboarding, performance management, absenteeism, and general people management.
Purpose That Counts - Key responsibilities
- Provide expert HR advice and coaching to leaders on a wide range of HR and ER issues, including performance management, workplace behaviour, and policy application.
- Deliver tailored support on people matters, ensuring compliance with policies, enterprise agreements, and legislation.
- Prepare accurate documentation and reports to support HR operations and maintain compliance with governance principles.
- Support the end-to-end employee lifecycle through the effective management of HR systems, workflows and people processes.
- Partner with leaders to build capability and drive consistent, practical people solutions aligned to organisational objectives.
For further information about this role view the Position Description here
People Who Count - About you
- Demonstrated experience in a HR Adviser, HR Generalist or People Adviser role within a medium to large organisation.
- Proven experience advising employees at all levels with HR matters, such as policy and enterprise interpretation, employment legislation, performance management, absenteeism, and employee complaints/grievances, harassment/bullying.
- Sound understanding of employment legislation, industrial instruments and contemporary HR practices.
- Exceptional interpersonal communication and written skills.
- Demonstrate high attention to detail.
- Strong time management and organisational skills – ability to balance multiple priorities and a high volume of time-sensitive matters.
- Proactive problem solver.
This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional looking to broaden their advisory capability, work across a diverse range of employee relations matters, and build strong stakeholder management skills within one of Queensland's largest employers.
We encourage you to highlight any relevant:
- Tertiary qualifications
- Transferable experience
Exposure to systems such as:
- MS Suite
- SAP, ServiceNow or SuccessFactors
- TRIM
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 base salary $121,800 + 12.75% Superannuation
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities
- Access to health and wellbeing programs
- Inclusive and supportive team environment
Your journey matters. Make it with us.
Please apply to People Adviser (ID11727) via our website by clicking onto the "Apply" button by 11:59pm (AEST) 11 th November 2026.
Supporting a Diverse Workforce
Queensland Rail acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Elders of the lands and waterways our network traverses.
Our teams are People who Count. We encourage diversity in our teams, including different genders, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religions, neurodiversity, education levels and many more aspects. No two journeys are the same, and it’s because of our differences that as a collective, we achieve great things.
We provide reasonable adjustments to support candidates and employees.
If you do require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact Louisa via the details below.
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 also include psychometric assessments, pre-employment health checks and background screenings, which could involve criminal history and credit checks, if this applies to the pre-employment requirements for this role.
For roles that have pre-employment qualifications, we will also be required to do formal qualification verification processes to ensure qualifications align to Queensland Rail's pre-employment frameworks.
To learn more about this Queensland Rail career opportunity please contact Louisa Gilbert with your enquiry via [email protected] Please do not email your application. We can only accept applications received via our website.