The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has opened a new recruitment round to engage rail industry professionals as transport safety investigators.
The ATSB is completely independent of operators and the regulator, and has unique powers to gather and protect evidence under the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003.
Our role is to help prevent future occurrences by ensuring lessons are learned and safety improvements are made through evidence-based, no-blame investigations, providing assurance that systems are operating safely through growth and change.
We are looking for candidates with proven experience in rail infrastructure or operations with a strong commitment to enhancing safety across the rail industry.
Highly desirable experience includes train driving and engineering disciplines such as civil, mechanical, maintenance, signalling and design.
The successful candidates will be supported in their transport safety investigator career path through a structured development and training program, including the opportunity to gain formal tertiary qualifications through our partnership with RMIT University.
As their capabilities, skills and experiences develop, investigators take on increasingly complex investigations and can lead multiple investigations at any point in time. With on-the-job training and mentoring, they progressively become involved in larger and more systemic investigations that drive real safety change - such as our recently-released reported into the Traveston freight train derailment.
