Benefits of Working at the Port of Brisbane

BENEFITS OF WORKING AT THE PORT

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The diversity of jobs, and opportunities to advance; the dynamic nature of one of Australia’s busiest container ports; and the green, open-air environment in which over 1,500 people work, all add up to an exciting place to be at work.

Unique Location

There are very few work sites in Brisbane that can boast that their offices are located on the doorstep to Moreton Bay.
This unique location provides a fantastic working environment for port employees, with plenty of green open spaces, sea breezes, lake and ocean views, and wild life – and all just a stones through away from the bayside communities of Wynnum and Manly.
The port precinct at Fisherman Islands is located about 30-40 minutes drive from Brisbane’s central business district, and just 17 minutes from the Brisbane Airport.

Dynamic Workplace

There’s a lot happening at the Port of Brisbane as it grows to meet future trade demands. Right across Fisherman Islands, there are a number of infrastructure projects underway including road, bridges, wharves, world-class buildings, and land reclamation.
To successfully complete these projects, port operators employ people who have a range of different skills and life experiences, from train drivers to environmental engineers, administration workers and boiler makers. It is expected that by 2025, there will be around 7,000 working at the port in over 25 different fields.

HI-TECH, BIG MACHINERY

You don’t need to leave Brisbane to operate hi-tech machinery. The Port of Brisbane is a leader in many port technologies including Automated Straddle Carriers, hydrographic surveying equipment, and land reclamation techniques.

Automated Straddle Carriers

Patrick Corporation’s Fisherman Islands facility is the world’s first container terminal to use fully automated straddle carriers, called Austostrads. These robots move freely within the terminal area, shifting the containers to and from trucks and ships.
Patrick’s 23, 65-tonne Autostrads are fitted with motion control and navigation systems, such as GPS, which allow them to operate unmanned, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year, in a very nearly all weather conditions.

Heavy machinery

You don’t have to work at a mine site to experience the power of trucks, forklifts, excavators and dozers. This equipment is used to transport goods, reclaim land and build infrastructure such as wharves, terminals and warehouses.
B-double and super B-double trucks, measuring from 24 metre to 30 metres, transport goods around the port area. Forklifts at the Port of Brisbane can lift up to 40 tonnes and stack up to seven containers in one pile – that’s more then 17m high.

Hydrographic surveying equipment

The Port of Brisbane was the first Australian port to introduce a sophisticated multi-beam echosounder system to meet its growing hydrographic surveying needs. This system provides a three-dimensional view of the sea bed.
The Port of Brisbane Corporation employs one of the largest port surveying teams in Australia. This team of hydrographic and land surveyors designed a unique mounting system called a moonpool, to accommodate the multi-beam system onboard the Corporation’s surveying vessels. Insect image of artificial reef

Land reclamation

Since 1977, up to 750ha of land has been reclaimed at the port’s main complex at Fisherman Islands.
Traditionally, reclaiming land by filling a low-lying area with silts and muds and topping it with sand to consolidate the land, takes many years.
At the Port of Brisbane, the reclamation process is being fast-tracked by a system called wick drains. Wick drains are inserted into the reclamation areas so that the water contained in the muds and sand is pulled to the surface.