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Hey, I'm Isis. I'm a digital communications officer for Maritime Safety Queensland and this is my office today.
I found out about TMR's Grad 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 grad 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.
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Hi, I'm Majurran. I'm a data scientist graduate working at Transport and Main Roads.
I used to be a web developer for an engineering company it wasn't really what I wanted to do so I was more interested in data science. I heard about the TMR graduate program on Grad Connect. It's a good website which offers a variety of opportunities for young graduates and juniors.
So my role at TMR is as a data scientist. The best thing about it is talking to other people and determining what they want out of the data and what desired results they want and then ensuring that it's in a clean and organized structure.
So the main development opportunity I received was to try and learn some animation skills. Even though it wasn't really in my skill area, I was able to better improve my communication skills with different techniques such as animation and recorded videos. So one of the main perks is the use of flex hours some weeks you'll have more work than others so it's good work those extra hours in busier weeks and then take time off in the less busy.
The most rewarding part of the role is dealing with the complex data that PMR has and then simplifying it down so that it meets the requirements of the users and it can be used for whatever purposes they have. Absolutely I would recommend the TMR Grad Program. No matter what your role is the connections you build throughout can be invaluable for the rest of your career.
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.
