Job Title: Transport Operations Manager
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This is a key leadership role within the Council, responsible for directing daily operations, overseeing budgets, implementing asset and service standards, managing RMPC arrangements, and ensuring full compliance with legislation, policies, and contractual obligations.
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The successful candidate will serve as our trusted service provider, delivering exceptional asset maintenance in line with established service standards. We are committed to investing in our people and are offering a growth opportunity for an Engineer who is ready to assume ownership of a team of operational staff.
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Key Responsibilities include:
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* Provide operational leadership for road maintenance, transport, pavement, and drainage services.
* Develop, implement, and monitor levels of service and operations plans in alignment with asset management principles, regional resource needs.
* Handle customer requests per policy and service standards, ensuring timely and consistent regional response.
* Lead negotiations and management of Road Maintenance Performance Contract with Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD.
* Support achievement of Corporate and Operational Plan objectives.
* Deliver technical advice to Director of Infrastructure Services and Manager Transport & Drainage Assets.
* Supervise team members with clear direction and visible leadership, ensuring consistent communication and service delivery across the region.
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The ideal candidate will have:
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* Proven highly developed managerial and supervisory skills including use of contemporary techniques such as team building, quality assurance, total quality management, time management.
* Highly developed communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills, including demonstrated interpersonal, oral, and written ability, solution-focused mindset.
* Strategic and operational understanding of Department of Transport and Main Roads Road Maintenance Performance Contracts (RMPC).
* Tertiary Qualifications in Civil Engineering or relevant experience in Road Construction and Maintenance.
* Construction white card.
* Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ)
* Understanding of RMPC specific programs ie REFLECT