Infrastructure Engineer - Network Access

About the role
In this role, you will coordinate and assess the applications of third party’s seeking to work within the City’s road reserve to ensure works are implemented consistent with best practice and key travel routes remain available for public use.

Work type: Permanent, full-time
Classification: Band 6 ($90,263 - $97,365)

Key responsibilities include:

• Assessing applications from 3rd parties to work with the City’s Road Reserves and issuing approval where appropriate.
• Coordinate and assess applications of transport operators to use the City’s Road Network at higher mass and dimension limits.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders on issues relating to network availability and vehicle restrictions based on infrastructure capacity constraints.
• Undertake various engineering related projects involving investigation, research, generation and assessment of alternatives and production of reports recommending appropriate courses of action.
• Provide timely and accurate advice including letters and reports to senior staff and internal and external customers.
• Supervise contractors engaged in general engineering studies and investigations.
• Provide support to the wider team to ensure the effective operation and success of the Department as a whole.
• Provide positive and informative customer service with members of the community.

About you
To be successful in this role you will have general experience within civil engineering, with understanding of the legislative requirements relating to construction activities, particularly related to a safety culture.

Essential Experience:

• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to translate technical information into plain English in both written and verbal form.
• Excellent prioritisation and organisational skills.
• Ability to assess, prioritise and schedule conflicting road access needs.
• Strong conceptual skills with experience in conducting research, analysing data, and synthesising results into tangible plans and outcomes.
• Undergraduate / Post Graduate studies in Civil Engineering (desirable).
• Technical qualification related to Civil Construction (desirable).

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.

If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now! 

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong
At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.  

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we've built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger. 

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us
Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language.  Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people.  We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you. 

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning 

Applications and Enquiries

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Enquiries: Aaron McGlade | Coordinator Infrastructure Planning | ********@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

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