Downer NZ

Continuing to ‘Grow our Own’

CONNEXIS AWARD CATEGORY 3: Turnover $100m+ and Alliances COMPANY: Downer NZ

Downer has been delighted to keep being able to employ New Zealanders and continue to “Grow our Own”.

126 CCNZ / CONNEXIS CIVIL INDUSTRY TRAINING AWARDS 2022 3 While working with our people and also vulnerable people, we have been able to advance many into apprenticeships and offer career pathways to people that may not have considered our industry before. Downer New Zealand has been continuing with training during and post our Covid lockdowns. Covid even provided some good learning opportunities to analyse how our learners predominately learn and what was also god, bad and ugly of online learning. Leadership training continues year on year with a cohort of 150 completing level 3 and 4 qualifications in management.

In August we launch our next leadership programme for our future GMs, which will see them present a project based on the 17 principles of the United Nations Sustainability goals which is vital for New Zealand longevity.

Our female leadership continues to grow with our Wahine Kotahitanga graduate group launching in February 2022 and running our first 2 Wahine Toa leadership programme for the advancement of Maori women leaders.

Training numbers are increasing year on year with solid trainees seeking employment in rural areas as well as the cities, a surprise was the increase of 10 percent in June. At the end of June 2022 we had 523 learners enrolled in qualification training across all our lines of business.

New Zealand will be in a better place if we continue to grow our own.