Jobs
The Metro Tunnel Project will create nearly 7,000 jobs, including hundreds for apprentices and trainees.
To build this city-shaping project, we will need highly motivated, innovative thinkers prepared to immerse themselves in a 21st century project environment.
Build the Metro Tunnel
Find out how you can contribute to Victoria's infrastructure and view currently advertised positions on the Metro Tunnel Project.
Graduate Program
The Victoria's Big Build Graduate Program provides the opportunity to work with world-class industry experts on some of the biggest transport infrastructure projects Melbourne has ever undertaken.
Professionals Program
Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) is introducing a two-year training and development program for those looking to fast-track their career through a structured training and development program.
Benefits of working at RPV
Rail Projects Victoria (RPV) has access to a wide variety of opportunities, with an extensive range of personal and professional development programs designed to develop our people and their careers.
MetroHub
MetroHub provides all training, recruitment and project inductions for people working on the Tunnel and Stations work package.
Victorian Tunnelling Centre
An Australian-first tunnelling training centre will train and skill local workers in underground construction and tunnelling.
Developing a diverse workforce
Rail Projects Victoria along with its contractors and their sub-contractors will secure a diverse workforce capable of unprecedented collaboration.
The Metro Tunnel contractors are required to achieve the Major Project Skills Guarantee with 10 per cent of workforce being apprentices, trainees or engineering cadets.
In addition, Metro Tunnel contractors are required to achieve an Aboriginal Employment Target of 2.5 per cent as well as employment targets for Priority Jobseekers.
Job opportunities
Jobs created include:
- acousticians
- administrative assistants
- apprentices
- architects
- carpenters
- commercial specialists
- communications professionals
- concretors
- designers
- document controllers
- electricians
- engineers - civil
- engineers - mechanical
- engineering cadets
- graduates
- human resource managers
- ICT professionals
- labourers
- lawyers
- mechanical fitters
- OHS advisors
- overhead line workers
- plant operators
- plumbers
- project engineers
- project managers
- safety specialists
- senior project managers
- signalling engineers
- site engineers
- stakeholder managers
- steel fixers
- systems integration specialists
- track workers
- traffic control managers
- trainees
- trainers
- truck drivers