More than 380 jobs will be supported by the renewal of State Government road maintenance contracts in south east Queensland.
Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said contracts were recently awarded to maintain state-controlled roads in the region for the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR).
"South East Queensland is home to about 2595km of state-controlled roads and the management and maintenance of these roads across the region is a huge and demanding job,'' Mr Bailey said.
"The new contracts will run over an initial five years and sustain more than 380 jobs across the region over that initial contract period.
"The Palaszczuk Government has a $46 billion infrastructure program that is supporting 38,000 jobs in this year alone.
"That's helped us to create more than 192,000 jobs for the Queensland economy since January 2015."
Mr Bailey said previous contracts were awarded in 2013, giving TMR an opportunity to learn from those agreements and build in innovations to the new contracts to improve services across south east Queensland.
New five year contracts were awarded for the Brisbane Metropolitan region (Fulton Hogan Industries Pty Ltd), Gold Coast region (Ventia Pty Ltd) and Sunshine Coast region (Downer Works EDI Pty Ltd).
Mr Bailey said the renewed contracts would also create a single point of contact for responsive maintenance works to ensure TMR reacts quickly to incidents to minimise road closures across the region.
''The responsive maintenance contract has been awarded to RoadTek, which will specialise in technically difficult, hard-to-scope, high risk and short-lead-time maintenance activities," Mr Bailey said.
All contracts will run for an initial five years.
