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Form of work Do you challenge the status quo?
We provide a platform and dynamic team,
For you to be instrumental in developing transportation safety solutions!
About Us:
The National Transport Research Organisation (NTRO) is the source of independent expert transport knowledge, with 60+ years of experience focused on delivering a connected and adaptable future for Australia and New Zealand in the road, rail, ports and airports transport sectors. NTRO has a strong heritage supporting and delivering high quality applied research for Australian and New Zealand state road agencies (our Members) and for the community. Our teams are made up of world-leading roads, transport and infrastructure professionals who analyse and interpret global research and apply it to the Australian and New Zealand context.
Why join NTRO:
NTRO is a dynamic and vibrant organisation providing exciting opportunities for people to do great things, to tackle the big infrastructure questions, and to see these solutions being practically applied. If our values of Collaboration, Transformation, Integrity and Energy & Passion strike a chord with you, then join us and make your mark! This role offers passionate, proactive, talented and energetic professionals the opportunity to make a significant contribution to the sustainability of Australia’s future mobility system!
About the role and you:
The Safer Smarter Infrastructure (SSI) Business Group believe that they can reduce harm to all people by making transport infrastructure safer, they do this by challenging, testing, forming and applying international best practice in road safety. The SSI team based in Port Melbourne is seeking a highly motivated engineer/scientist with a strong transportation infrastructure safety focus to join our team. The successful candidate will be willing to challenge the status quo, innovate, and deliver outcomes in the pursuit of technical excellence. If you share these values, then we’d like to speak to you.
The SSI team offer the ability to be involved in projects across Australia and the possibility of international project works as part of NTRO’s expanding international presence. Working with industry and government we proactively progress the adoption of new design and traffic methods and to save lives and improve the efficient movement of goods and people.
You would be joining an integrated and dynamic national team that make a difference by saving lives and reducing road trauma using innovative and practical transport solutions.
In this integral role, you will have the scope to lead projects, create new opportunities, enhance client relationships, and deliver quality outputs with the wider SSI team on a Local, State, National and potentially International scale.
We are looking for talented applicants who can offer practical ‘can do’ skills with a strong background in applied safety knowledge from within industry, consultancy, or State/Local Government.
Key attributes: Seeking a professional with 5 to 10 years industry-related safety experience. First-principles knowledge and an ability to scope and manage multi-faceted projects (including the management of sub-contractors). You will need to have confidence and interest to develop innovative transport safety/traffic/design solutions for transport agencies, private road operators, local government, and mining/rail/aviation/port industries.
In this position you will:
Project manage all technical aspects of a project
Undertake applied research using a first-principles approach to provide innovative and practical solutions that can be implemented to improve transport safety.
Develop new and effective road safety policy and technical guidance for industry practitioners.
Provide expert consulting and technical advice to government, road managers, industry, and other stakeholders.
Develop new and foster existing client relationships to develop consulting and research-based projects and programs.
Deliver training to industry practitioners as part of NTROs knowledge transfer program ‘ARRB iMPACT’.
Represent NTRO through publishing research and technical papers and presenting at National and International conferences.
Coach and mentor junior staff to ensure their development.
We seek an individual who has:
Bachelors of Engineering or equivalent tertiary degree
5 to 10 years’ relevant transportation safety-related experience.
Expertise in safety/traffic/design engineering within the road, rail, ports & airports arena
Strong project management skills.
Strong report writing skills including strong proficiency in English and grammar.
Demonstrated ability to project lead a team to a successful outcome.
Ability to identify key areas of legislation, standards, and guidance.
What we offer:
At NTRO, we are proud of our thriving workforce. We continue to attract the leading minds within the transportation infrastructure and related research arena. We truly celebrate our culturally and gender diverse work environment.
We provide an exciting, dynamic and collaborative workplace with challenging roles, where your skills, knowledge and experience will be recognised and respected, including:
Opportunities to work with nationally recognised experts, who offer brilliant mentorship and support
Opportunities to contribute to interesting projects which make a difference to the community
We embrace flexible working arrangements in a hybrid model with options for time in the office and working from home including flexible working hours to assist with achieving a healthy work-life balance
Strong support for career development and further study, including an explicit step-by-step guide for progressing in the organisation and a range of professional development options
We encourage applications from women looking to make their mark within the STEM arena
Access to 6 weeks of paid parental leave which is over and above government provisions, extra 2 days of paid holiday leave in December
A well-established social club, with regular socialising events, competitions, quiz events and tournaments
We embrace diversity - highlighting a multidisciplinary workforce from all over the world within all of our offices across Australia
End-of-trip facilities for those staff who have gone a step further and cycle, run or walk to work - as many of our Port Melbourne staff do
Our Port Melbourne site is a state-of-the-art work campus encompassing basketball courts, pool and ping pong tables, café, end of trip facilities, and hosts the largest pavements engineering laboratory within the southern hemisphere!
To be considered:
Applicants must be residing Australian Citizens / Permanent Resident of Australia.
Please ensure you attached your CV, attach a separate cover letter (no more than one page) addressing why you would be perfect for this role and what you would be hoping to get out of it, and answer the screening questions provided.
If you meet some of the role requirements, but not all, we encourage you to submit your application. The NTRO actively seeks to include and value the unique talents, perspectives, experiences, and contributions of all applications.
