Resources Safety & Health Queensland (RSHQ) is an independent statutory body responsible for regulating safety and health in the state’s resources industries including coal mines, mineral mines and quarries, explosives and petroleum and gas.
The Investigations Manager plays a critical leadership role within the Serious Incident Investigation Unit (SIIU), overseeing day-to-day investigative operations into serious resource industry incidents, including workplace fatalities and serious injuries.
Reporting to the Director, SIIU, you will lead a team of specialist investigators, applying your extensive investigative expertise to ensure investigations are conducted to the highest professional, legal, and ethical standards. As the Manager you drive performance to ensure high-quality investigations within the unit, providing authoritative guidance, quality control, and decisive leadership.
The role requires close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including legal services, prosecutors, emergency response partners, and senior regulatory leaders, to ensure investigative outcomes support regulatory processes.
Key Accountabilities
- Effectively governing and leading the SIIU investigators through all stages of an investigation, driving performance to ensure the undertaking of high-quality investigation and producing of associated reports and briefs of evidence.
- Providing operational oversight including monitoring, problem solving, resource management and reporting, to ensure investigators deliver objective, fair, thorough, unbiased and timely investigations into incidents.
- Thinking critically and making justifiable decisions, using appropriate contemporary investigative techniques and technologies, in a timely way, particularly in the context of serious injury or fatality investigations.
- Reviewing and providing quality control across a range of written documents, including but not limited to briefs of evidence, investigation reports, affidavits, statutory notices and warrant applications to enhance clarity, accuracy, and legal integrity of documents, ensuring they meet organisational and legal standards, and that content is clearly articulated to support successful court proceedings and regulatory outcomes.
- Overseeing the submission of briefs of evidence to the Office of the Work Health and Safety Prosecutor and RSHQ Legal, ensuring ongoing follow-up to track progress and addressing issues that may arise throughout the prosecution, civil and administrative processes.
- Manage contemporary 24-7 mine emergency response capability (capital, equipment and human resources).
You will possess the relevant background and experience, have success in a similar role and you will also be skilled in inspiring individuals and teams in the pursuit of world class service delivery and leadership management.
For a confidential discussion and to obtain a copy of the role description, please contact Ian Quinn at Dean & Ling Executive on 0403 343 097. Applications, including your resume and a synopsis of how your experience, abilities and knowledge are relevant to this role, can be submitted no later than midnight on the 21st June 2026 via the Apply button.