Noble Park’s newest engineers are kick-starting their careers as cadets on the Metro Tunnel project.
Premier and Mulgrave MP Daniel Andrews recently met Siu Qun Hui, Jawad Ahmadi and Steven Tran at the acoustic shed above the future State Library Station at Franklin Street, between Swanston and Victoria streets.
The State Government offered 160 university students placements working on the project.
“This project will give hundreds of young Victorians the skills and expertise they need to be the engineers of the future,” Mr Andrews said.
The Noble Park cadets are all studying at RMIT University, next to the State Library Station site.
Siu Qun Hui is a civil engineering and infrastructure student and is doing her cadetship at State Library Station where 24-7 excavation is underway inside the acoustic shed.
Afghanistan refugee Jawad Ahmadi arrived in Australia in 2012 and is studying civil engineering and business management.
He was placed as a cadet on the Metro Tunnel Project via CareerSeekers, an organisation that helps people from a refugee or asylum seeker background to find professional employment.
Engineering student Steven Tran is working on the new Anzac Station.
He’s focusing on preparation works ahead of tunnel boring machines travelling under St Kilda Road.
Mr Andrews said the Metro Tunnel would untangle the city loop by taking the Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury lines out of the loop and into the new tunnel.
“Mulgrave residents will benefit from trains so often on the Cranbourne and Pakenham lines that they can throw away the timetable,” he said.
The project will be complete by 2026.
