The Department of Transport and Main Roads is made up of close to 10,000 employees representing 80 occupational groups across Queensland. We are town planners, harbour masters, engineers and more.
Meet our people who are connecting communities in a sustainable, thriving and inclusive Queensland.
Hey, I'm Isis. I'm a digital communications officer for Maritime Safety Queensland and this is my office today.
I found out about the Transport and Main Roads Graduate Program through Grad Connections which is a job listing similar to Seek, so I found that towards the end of my university degrees.
The best part about my role is helping develop creative content and working with amazing people.
A key project that I've worked on is the National Safe Boating Week. The whole premise of what I do is just to educate the boating public about being safe out on the waterways and right now we're doing the Summer Boating Safety Campaigns so very excited about it. I feel like my involvement creates a positive impact because we're creating content to educate the boating public about being safe out on the waterways like wearing a life jacket.
The graduate program has been absolutely amazing. I've travelled to different areas in Queensland and working with MSQ and in the waterways has been so enjoyable.
We are sustaining infrastructure to keep Queenslanders moving
Find out how graduate engineer, Thishuan, is connecting with his local community.
I'm Thishaun. I'm a graduate civil engineer as part of the 2023 graduate program.
Currently I'm an RNBC area engineer which is based in the tropical, sunny, Far North Queensland in Cairns.
What made me choose the Department of Transport and Main Roads graduate program is I took a particular liking to roads and highways and as a graduate engineer we did quite a lot of quality control.
We're working in the wet tropics area, which is also unique to this area, capturing data to forward on to relevant authorities.
Working in the Cairns region I'm able to see my impact quite immediately. To be working out in the regions I'm very grateful because I'm able to wear different hats. It's part of my role working, especially rurally, we may not be able to get resources out there in time, especially when you're working 4-plus hours away from the city. So, to be able to wear these hats as a primary role and take on secondary roles as well, it's been really rewarding and increased my confidence in my career.
The connection between the local community and the work I do is quite rewarding. Everyone has a vested interest in seeing the region grow as a whole. To able to consult with various stakeholders, such as property owners, and for them to even be able to voice their concerns to us about some access problem that they may be having and to be able to improve capacity of our road.
I enjoy living in Cairns because of the strong sense of community especially when I clock in to work every day everyone says stops and says good day. If you want to start your career there's no place better than the far north.
You get to get more involved and the team, especially up in Cairns, really does support you. I've been very privileged enough, despite being a graduate engineer, to still be involved in some of these technical talks and learning from my mentors and from my team leaders.
So, to work in the regions you get extra leave which is 5 weeks of annual leave which is quite a plus point to be able to do more exploring or to spend time with family.
The most rewarding experience at the Department of Transport and Main Roads in regards to engineering is working on some of these slips and more remote parts of the of the region such as Cooktown. Getting to understand the complexities of the location especially is quite unique.
So, working in a holiday destination with beaches and mountains, everyone's quite laidback and everyone's in real holiday mood and in good spirits. So that energy rubs off on you in your work as well.
I'm sure like thousands of tourists spend money to come and drive up these roads, but here we are maintaining it and supporting the local community. So, that in itself is a holiday.
We offer diverse work experiences that allow you to unleash your potential
Find out how our graduate engineers, Zane, Fariha and Inder, are contributing to our transport network.
Honestly, if you're a young engineer who's very curious there's probably no better place than TMR to just get I guess the full holistic project life cycle from start to finish.
So I would just say go for it. It's a great opportunity and you get exposure to a lot of different areas within the business and you get to meet a lot of different people from different backgrounds and different professions so it's really good to help with your skills and it helps you just develop your leadership skills.
I think in this role you're not limited to the opportunities whereas I do come from a construction background but when I look into the department there's so many things that comes up with your skill sets that you can contribute to the different areas and those are the sort of things that had helped you through the journey of the graduate program.
There's so many things you can do. It's such a big organisation but also a diverse organisation. We've got so many different things you can work on so you can work on roads, you can work in the railways, you can work in maritime.
We've got all the different types of modes of transport and then there's all sorts of different disciplines that we call upon so it's not just one type of engineering. You get involved you do things that you can't do from the private sector.
