What are the responsibilities and job description for the Team Leader Movement And Safety position at Department of Transport and Planning?
About The Role
This role will manage the team of traffic engineers in accordance with business area planning activities including financial management and resource management activities.
It is responsible for approving certain changes to the transport network based on expert advice and engineering judgement. It is also responsible for managing relationships between the Inner Metro Region M&S teams and key road safety partners.
To access the Position Description, please click here’.
Position Outcomes / Accountabilities
To be successful in the role the ideal candidate will drive successful in project outcomes through effective task coordination, monitoring, and corrective action. You will guide teams in executing work activities, ensuring timely delivery while addressing challenges proactively.
In this role, you will manage complex stakeholder needs, balancing competing priorities to achieve results. Your strong leadership will foster a high-performing team culture, ensuring accountability to public sector values while enhancing engagement and recognition.
With a focus on capability development, you will coach, mentor, and empower team members, providing learning opportunities to nurture talent and build long-term success.
Personal Attributes
On a personal level the candidate will thrive in dynamic environments, embraces changing priorities, and collaborates effectively across teams. Your adaptability and quick response to change will be key to driving success.
You will foster resilience by encouraging open discussions, supporting persistence, and providing clear, well-reasoned guidance on critical issues.
Qualifications And Experience
Mandatory
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.
How To Apply
Applications close at 11:59 PM on Wednesday the 16th of April, 2025.
Please include a resume and cover letter. All applications must be submitted through the online portal. We’re unable to consider email or manual applications.
For more information, contact Andrew Sharp, Manager Movement and Safety at Andrew.Sharp@transport.vic.gov.au
Preferred applicants will need to complete a police check and other pre-employment checks. Your information will be treated confidentially.
If you require additional adjustments across the recruitment process or accessible formats of this ad, please contact us by phone or email.
This role will manage the team of traffic engineers in accordance with business area planning activities including financial management and resource management activities.
It is responsible for approving certain changes to the transport network based on expert advice and engineering judgement. It is also responsible for managing relationships between the Inner Metro Region M&S teams and key road safety partners.
To access the Position Description, please click here’.
Position Outcomes / Accountabilities
- Effectively lead, manage, motivate and develop a constructive team culture with a focus on reflecting and learning from experience, celebrating achievements, and collaborating with partners to deliver outcomes.
- Effectively lead a team involved in providing expert transport and safety advice to internal and external customers and stakeholders and identify opportunities to enhance movement and place making aligned with business objectives and strategies.
- Apply creative and advanced problem-solving skills to resolve complex road safety issues in line with the safe system approach including promoting innovative ways to address behavioural issues and applying principles-based decision making.
- Apply well developed specialist skills to drive customer focused outcomes by understanding the needs of our stakeholders and emerging issues while delivering a service that is responsive and aligned with key road safety policies and transport strategies.
- Negotiate with and influence internal and external stakeholders on transport and road safety matters to meet their objectives and to build strong relationships while also representing DTP’s interests.
- Exercise independent judgement to manage the team in accordance with business area planning activities including financial management and resource management activities.
- In line with Section 31A of the Public Administration Act 2004 (Vic) other duties may be assigned consistent with employment classification, skills, and capabilities
To be successful in the role the ideal candidate will drive successful in project outcomes through effective task coordination, monitoring, and corrective action. You will guide teams in executing work activities, ensuring timely delivery while addressing challenges proactively.
In this role, you will manage complex stakeholder needs, balancing competing priorities to achieve results. Your strong leadership will foster a high-performing team culture, ensuring accountability to public sector values while enhancing engagement and recognition.
With a focus on capability development, you will coach, mentor, and empower team members, providing learning opportunities to nurture talent and build long-term success.
Personal Attributes
On a personal level the candidate will thrive in dynamic environments, embraces changing priorities, and collaborates effectively across teams. Your adaptability and quick response to change will be key to driving success.
You will foster resilience by encouraging open discussions, supporting persistence, and providing clear, well-reasoned guidance on critical issues.
Qualifications And Experience
Mandatory
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications.
- Experience relevant to the accountabilities and capabilities of the role.
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.
How To Apply
Applications close at 11:59 PM on Wednesday the 16th of April, 2025.
Please include a resume and cover letter. All applications must be submitted through the online portal. We’re unable to consider email or manual applications.
For more information, contact Andrew Sharp, Manager Movement and Safety at Andrew.Sharp@transport.vic.gov.au
Preferred applicants will need to complete a police check and other pre-employment checks. Your information will be treated confidentially.
If you require additional adjustments across the recruitment process or accessible formats of this ad, please contact us by phone or email.
