Matt Young
Director Infrastructure & Development
Matt has 36 years of experience in strategy, urban and regional planning, management and projects in Perth, the South West and the UK. This includes 21 years of leadership and management experience in State and Local Government and 9 years of experience in the private sector.
In his last role as the Acting CEO and Director Development Services at the Shire of Collie, Matt had substantive responsibilities covering town planning, building, environmental health, rangers, emergency management, major strategic and capital projects, economic development and marketing, trails and asset management.
The “Collie’s Just Transition” initiatives Matt has been directly responsible for include:
Principal contact for Premier and Cabinet and JTSI for all major economic development projects; valued over $5 billion.
- Principal contact on $10m Collie Adventure Trails project with the DBCA and associated municipal mountain bike trails.
- Principal contact for JTSI’s 1200ha Coolangatta Industrial Area Structure Plan.
Matt also worked for the City of Bunbury where he focussed on a wide-ranging revitalisation strategy for the CBD, an urban forest strategy, contributed to the City’s economic development action plan for small businesses and scoped out an innovative and multi-jurisdictional economic and employment strategy.
Matt is responsible for leading the following departments along with a team of experienced Managers and staff:
- Planning – Strategic and Statutory Planning
- Building Services
- Environmental Health
- Emergency Management including Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades
- Sustainability
- Natural Resource Management
- Engineering and Technical Services
- Asset and Facilities Management
- Strategic Project Management
- Works and Operations
- Parks and Gardens
- Waste Management.