The Allan Labor Government is launching Metro Trains’ biggest station staff recruitment drive since the City Loop opened – with applications opening next week for station staff on the city-shaping Metro Tunnel.
Applications for more than 100 new station workers open on 22 November, with Station Master, Senior Station Officers and station assistance roles available at Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac stations.
Station staff play a key role in helping thousands of passengers get where they need to go every day quickly and safely.
As the search for staff begins, work is continuing at pace on the Metro Tunnel – creating room for more passengers, taking cars off our roads and cutting travel times to Parkville and St Kilda Road by up to 50 minutes a day.
Test trains are now running at line speed through the project’s twin nine-kilometre tunnels and enormous progress is being made on the five stations with key architectural features, lights and seating installed.
The comprehensive testing phase includes tests to check the new signalling to lifts, escalators, security systems, passenger information and the Victorian-first platform screen doors.
The testing phase will continue into next year, before the project moves to the next phase of trialling train services using the new signalling system with station staff and drivers – before the tunnel is opened to passengers.
Victorians will be able to catch a train to Parkville and St Kilda Road for the first time and switch easily to City Loop services via underground walkways at Town Hall Station and State Library Station.
The Metro Tunnel will create a new end-to-end rail line from Sunbury in the north-west to Cranbourne and Pakenham in the south-east – through a new tunnel under the city, freeing up space in the City Loop.
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Quote attributable to Premier Jacinta Allan
“To run more trains, more often, we need more station staff – so we're launching a recruitment drive for Victoria’s most exciting new Metro Tunnel jobs.”
Quote attributable to Minister for Public and Active Transport Gabrielle Williams
“We encourage people wanting to be a part of the most important addition to Victoria’s transport network since the City Loop to apply – staff will work at new stations of a size and scale not seen in Melbourne before.”
Quote attributable to Minister for Transport Infrastructure Danny Pearson
“We’re getting on with the Metro Tunnel, with test trains running through the nine-kilometre tunnels, and architectural features, lights and seating now being installed at five new world-class stations.”
Reviewed 16 November 2023