Roadwork Permits Officer

Title: Roadwork Permits Officer

Requisition ID: 8565

Work Type: Ongoing Full Time

Fixed Term Period: 12 months

Location: Melbourne - CBD

Date Posted: 24 Sept 2025

*About Us*
We create thriving places and connected communities by bringing together transport, planning, land use, precinct, and policy functions in one department to deliver the best outcomes for Victorians.

Together with our portfolio agencies, we are responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Victoria's transport, planning, and land services for use by all. We foster a safe, inclusive, and constructive workplace.

Transport Services
delivers safe, reliable and accessible transport infrastructure and services to keep Victoria moving, connecting people to what matters most in their lives.

About Us
We create thriving places and connected communities by bringing together transport, planning, land use, precinct, and policy functions in one department to deliver the best outcomes for Victorians.

Together with our portfolio agencies, we are responsible for planning, building, operating, and maintaining Victoria's transport, planning, and land services for use by all. We foster a safe, inclusive, and constructive workplace.

Transport Services delivers safe, reliable and accessible transport infrastructure and services to keep Victoria moving, connecting people to what matters most in their lives.

About The Role
The role is fixed term fulltime for 12 months

The Roadwork Permits Officer is responsible for processing of requests to access the road network (Memorandum of Authorisation (MOA) applications), including assessments within the predefine timeframes and standards, considering the planned events scheduled within the transport network and impact of individual and cumulative requests of road access. This role is required to provide advice and work collaboratively with a broad range of stakeholders, including transport operators, project agencies, government departments and a varied range of functional divisions in the analyse the impact of planned disruption events.

In This Role You Will:

• Exercise professional judgement to provide traffic and transport management advice to stakeholders, keeping within established traffic engineering practice, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Assess the impact of planned disruptions and recommended actions to mitigate those impacts.
• Develop and prepared the necessary paperwork and regulatory requirements associated with the roadwork permit approval process.
• Exercise independent judgement to provide timely responses to customer enquiries and roadwork permit applications.
• Establish and maintained strong working relationships with relevant stakeholders to achieve business outcomes.

Key Selection Criteria

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
(Foundational)Seeks resolution of problems through policy or process guidelines.

Project Delivery
(Foundational) Executes work tasks against Traffic Management Plans in accordance with legislation.

Working Collaboratively
(Foundational) Cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals.

Communicate with Impact
(Foundational) Organises information in a logical sequence.

Stakeholder Management
(Foundational) Understand customer requirements and how work addresses customer needs

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Qualifications And Experience
Appropriate tertiary qualifications in Civil/Transport engineering or relevant experience (Desired).

Other Position-specific Requirements
May involve evening or weekend work including occasional overnight travel

You may be required to undertake a medical and other safety compliance requirement

Culture Value

We welcome applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds representing the community that we serve, including veterans, parents, carers, First Peoples, people with disability, multicultural, multifaith and LGBTIQA+ individuals.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture. Through shared actions and behaviours aligned with our strategy and direction, we empower our people to thrive and meaningfully contribute to the department's goals.

What we offer

Working at the Department of Transport and Planning provides people with the opportunity to contribute to creating thriving places and connected communities for all Victorians. For further details please refer to Careers at the Department of Transport and Planning.

Pre-employment checks and employment conditions

All new appointments to the department will be subject to a National Criminal Records Check, Misconduct Screening, and a Qualification Check where there is a requirement for a mandatory qualification. Information provided to the Department of Transport and Planning will be treated in the strictest confidence consistent with the requirements of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.

Applicants must be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa necessary for the nature of the position.

Recipients of Victorian Public Service (VPS) voluntary departure packages should note that re-employment restrictions apply.

Non-VPS applicants will be subject to a probation period of six months.

*How To Apply*
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Applications close at 11.59pm on Wednesday, 8 October 2025.

For more information, contact Lekshmi P Dilipkumar, Team Leader Roadwork Permits via email

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