Transport Planning Specialist

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $106,534 - $128,897

Occupation: Engineering

Reference: 3872

**Transport Services is a Group** within the Department of Transport & Planning and is responsible for delivering safe, reliable and accessible transport infrastructure and services to all Victorians.

**About the Role**

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**Position Outcomes**

To provide specialized traffic engineering advice to planners, ensuring statutory planning referral outcomes promote safe and efficient road network usage, leveraging expertise in interpreting SIDRA reports and conducting road safety audits. Additionally, I applied advanced problem-solving skills to facilitate innovative access solutions for development projects, negotiated with stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes on arterial road proposals, and collaborated effectively within legislative timeframes to assess traffic engineering aspects of various planning initiatives.

**Key Selection Criteria**
- **Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (Applied)**:Resolves issues through deep understanding or interpretation of existing guidelines. Where guidelines are not available, analyses ideas available and takes action through self, or in consultation with others to resolve problems. If required, determine additional information needed to make informed decisions. Applies critical thinking and problem-solving concepts in the right context.
- **Data Literacy (Foundational)**:Can derive meaningful insights from data and/or reports; Able to understand the organisation’s common data language and through relevant reports/audit findings; Has a basic understanding of data sources and quality of data.
- **Influence and Persuasion (Accomplished)**:Gains agreement to proposals and ideas; Build behind the scenes support for ideas to ensure buy-in and ownership; Uses chains of indirect influence to achieve outcomes; Involves experts or other third parties to strengthen case.
- **Innovation and Continuous Improvement (Accomplished)**:Uses understanding of clients or stakeholders’ context to design and help applicants develop innovative access solutions for continuous improvement; Reviews and analyses internal and external information to improve effectiveness and quality of work.
- **Future Focus (Accomplished)**:Understands the broader context when reviewing an issue or problem and supports others to do so. Is future oriented in analysis, thought and action; Actively seeks out new ways to enhance team systems, processes and service delivery.

In addition to the above, the individual needs to demonstrates a commitment to aligning work with organizational goals, collaboratively fosters team synergy, and adeptly adjusts to changing priorities and circumstances.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Desirable**
- Tertiary qualifications in Civil Engineering (Transport Engineering) or related discipline.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply**

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