Transport Planner
Transport Planners apply critical thinking and lead others to deliver timely, high quality and cost effective planning investigations and/or road design services to solve a range of complex transport issues.
What you would do:
- manage project assessments and designs, ensuring project human and financial resources are adequate
- develop and negotiate Service Agreements with clients and external bodies
- provide professional advice, solutions and plans for complex technical and operational issues
- identify, develop and assess feasible alternative options and present these options
- lead the development of professional solutions, and the adaptation of standardised methodologies where specific standards are not appropriate, to meet stakeholder needs and to ensure best practice is implemented
You need to be:
- knowledgeable of Standards, Guides and Codes of Practice
- able to learn new technologies
- willing to adopt and develop new processes and procedures
- a person with proven experience and competence in the coordination of technical and professional services and supervising complex planning investigations and/or project designs
- knowledgeable of project management principles
- a person with a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and experience of planning processes and/or drafting practices, procedures, techniques and design principles
- able to apply critical thinking to solve complex issues
You will require:
Professional engineer or relevant tertiary qualifications.
Improve your chances by:
Studying engineering and mathematics at school.
What you will earn:
Transport Planners generally earn between $59,560 - $79,570.
Long term Possibilites:
Once you are employed, you may be able to develop, and have recognised, additional skills under the Transport and Logistics or Local Government Training Packages that will expand your career opportunities within this industry.
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