Traffic Controller Hire Melbourne

Traffic control is the part of a job that stops everything when it is short. A lane closure cannot open without the right number of ticketed controllers on the ground, and a crew standing idle costs more per hour than the controller you were waiting on. Bluestone supplies traffic controllers across Melbourne to civil contractors, road maintenance crews, utility works and event organisers, usually at 24 to 48 hours notice.

We supply controllers as ABN contractors or as casual employees on our own payroll, whichever suits how you run the site. Either way the ticket is checked before the worker is booked, not after they arrive.

What we supply

Who we supply

Traffic control covers a wider range of work than most people outside the industry realise. We place across all of it.

Stop and slow operators

Ticketed controllers for single lane closures, shuttle flow and site access points. The bread and butter of most road works.

Traffic management implementation

Controllers qualified to set out and dismantle a traffic guidance scheme to the approved plan, including signage runs and cone taper setup.

Night shift and weekend crews

A large share of arterial and freeway work happens overnight. We keep a pool of controllers who prefer night shift rather than pushing day workers onto it.

Utility and service works

Short duration closures for water, gas, power and telecommunications works, where the crew size changes daily.

Event and pedestrian management

Controllers for road closures, car park management and pedestrian flow at events and public works.

Site access and gate control

Controllers managing truck movements in and out of a construction site where the interface with public traffic is the risk.

Traffic controller holding a stop sign on a Melbourne road in a hi vis vest

Compliance

Tickets and checks before placement

Nothing is taken on trust. Every ticket is sighted and verified before a controller is offered to you.

Traffic Controller Ticket

Current stop and slow bat accreditation

Traffic Management Implementation

Where the role requires setting out the scheme

Construction Induction (White Card)

Verified on the national register

Right to Work

Visa and work entitlement checked

Licence and Transport

Driver licence and reliable transport confirmed

Police Check

Where the site or client requires it

Why Bluestone

Why contractors call us for traffic

Controllers who turn up for the pre start, not fifteen minutes into it.
A pool deep enough to cover a same day sick call without leaving the lane closed.
Tickets verified before booking, so nothing is discovered at the gate.
One weekly invoice covering the whole crew, whatever mix of contractors and casuals it took.

Bluestone Labour Group holds Victorian Labour Hire Licence VICLHL11535. In Victoria it is a legal requirement for a host employer to use a licensed labour hire provider, and the obligation sits with you as well as with us.

Coverage

Where we place traffic controllers

Traffic control work follows the road authority and the utility programme rather than a suburb, so our controllers move across the whole metropolitan area. The steadiest demand sits on the arterial network in the north and west, where road upgrades and level crossing works run in long programmes, and on the outer growth corridors where new subdivision roads are being tied into existing ones.

We regularly place controllers on works around Craigieburn and Epping in the north, Werribee, Tarneit and Melton in the west, Dandenong, Pakenham and Officer in the south east, and the inner suburbs where lane closures interact with trams and heavy pedestrian traffic. Geelong and the Surf Coast Highway corridor are within our reach for longer bookings.

If your works cross several council areas over a programme, tell us the whole run rather than each week separately. It lets us keep the same controllers across the job, which almost always works out better than a new face every Monday.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Most requests are covered within 24 hours, and same day is often possible if you call early. Give us the site, the shift times and the number of controllers and we will confirm before the end of the day.

Yes. Every controller has their traffic control accreditation and construction induction card sighted and verified before they are offered to a client. We do not book a worker on the strength of a claim over the phone.

Yes. A significant part of arterial road work in Melbourne runs overnight and on weekends. We keep controllers who prefer those shifts rather than rostering day workers onto nights, which is where reliability usually breaks down.

We supply the people, not the plan. Your traffic management provider or in house planner produces the scheme, and we place the ticketed controllers who implement it and staff it.

Other roles

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Traffic Controller Hire in Melbourne