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Department of Transport and Main Roads

4.2
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Department of Transport and Main Roads Graduate Programs & Internships

  • Government & Public Service

Providing reliable, resilient and responsive transport networks and digital services that are safe and accessible for everyone.

TMR is working to shape and change the future of Queensland by creating positive impacts, putting customers first and improving the transport network statewide. 

TMR is committed to becoming a world leader in the provision of accessible and inclusive transport and employment. They are building a culture of mobility to provide employees with a wide variety of employment experiences.

Imagine being challenged daily, given clear paths for professional training and career development and having the ability to transfer to some of the most beautiful regions in Queensland. 

You will be working for an organisation that supports:

  • Good jobs: Good, secure jobs in our traditional and emerging industries
  • Better services: Deliver even better services right across Queensland
  • Great lifestyle: Protect and enhance our Queensland lifestyle as we grow.

TMR is investing in people who are:

  • A lifelong learner — keep up to date with industry and professional knowledge
  • Purpose driven — engage in performance conversations and career planning
  • Agile and mobile — adapt as they progress through their career and across the organisation
  • Capable — consider customer needs, and balance risk and outcomes
  • Safe, healthy and resilient — embrace our holistic wellbeing approach.

Recruitment Process

They recruit a variety of Professional and Administration streams for the TMR Graduate Program. If you have working rights and the appropriate recognised qualification, then they want to hear from you.

The Program offers permanent employment commencing the following February. You may be brought into the business earlier on a temporary or casual basis. 

Given they are a state-wide employer, there may be opportunities in multiple locations for your stream. They encourage you to consider and apply for multiple locations. Working in one of their regions offers you the experience to contribute to the community and rapidly grow your practical skills like no other.

Step 1

When applications open, you'll need to:

  • log in and set up your profile
  • Upload your:
    • resume
    • academic transcript
    • cover letter
    • video, telling us more about you (optional)

Step 2

Eligibility screening starts. They will make sure you have the right to work in Australia and you hold the right degree for your preferred role.

Step 3

Experts from your chosen field will assess:

  • experience
  • knowledge
  • acquired skills
  • personal qualities

Step 4

The interview process begins. They will call you to arrange a time to meet with them. If you're offered an interview, you must let your referees know. Reference checks are sent by email and without this they cannot make you an offer. 

Step 5

Offers will be made by phone.

They may extend offers until December if they share suitability lists across roles after acceptance, or if there are late declines.

Remuneration & Career Growth

TMR offers:

Competitive pay, conditions and benefits:

Permanent employment contract with a guaranteed 36.25 hour working week. Any extra hours worked accrue and are taken as paid time off. They have flexible start and finish times and working from home or other locations is available where the role permits.

Their salaries start from $73,800 per year including automatic pay rises.

There are multiple opportunities for advancement, generous leave conditions including 4 weeks annual leave (with loading), 2 weeks sick leave per year as well as personal and parental leave. They also have leave for exceptional circumstances such as natural disaster leave so employees have one less stress to manage.

They offer 12.75% employer superannuation. Employees have the option to salary sacrifice additional contributions to take advantage of tax benefits.

Development opportunities to fast-track your career and build transferable skills for the future:

Their graduates complete between 2 and 4 rotations with technical and on-the-job training provided by local teams. They are matched with a mentor in line with their interests and development needs. 

The Program provides a significant investment in professional development, with support to embed learnings.

Flexibility that enables health and well-being and access to contemporary work practices:

As a development program, there will be a face-to-face focus in the early stages as you develop business acumen and networks. 

They support employees to balance their work, life and family needs by encouraging workplace flexibility.

They focus on the individual and empower you to make choices that help you balance the requirements of your role and your life commitments through discussion with your supervisor.

A future-focused organisation:

They understand their customers and design services to meet their diverse needs.

They gain insight from data to improve their customer and employee experiences to make better and faster decisions.

They build capability and encourage behaviours that enable innovation and sustainability.

Graduate Reviews

Overall Score
4.2
Overall score based on 63 reviews
They Score Best in…
8.6
Diversity
8.8
Management
8.3
Training
8.7
Work Hours
What Graduates Say About Them
  • The best thing about working at TMR are the hours and the flexibility. It enables me to have a work-life balance and actually spend time outside of the office.
  • The people are friendly and incredibly supportive and encourage you to ask questions as much as possible.
  • The amount of opportunities there are - I'm going from CSB to MSQ, which is such a cool chance.
  • I really like the Graduate program training they offer to us graduates. I am also interested in more internal face-to-face and online training.
  • The flexibility TMR provides is amazing.
  • Promotions and career progression are very slow.
  • Lots of red tape and approvals required before applying changes to a technical environment which can slow productivity.
  • There is not a lot of work for someone in my role in this team, so the work I am involved in does not match the work of my role.
  • There are no other TMR grads in my team and it's easy to feel pretty disconnected.
  • The company's office is in an inconvenient place where commuting can be a challenge.

Jobs & Opportunities

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Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
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IT & Computer Science
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Law, Legal Studies & Justice
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Medical & Health Sciences
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Property & Built Environment
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Sciences

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  • Graduate stories
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