This is more than a job. It's the start of a career where you'll gain qualifications, experience, support, and opportunities that will help shape your future.
Join Downer and become part of a team that's building, maintaining, and enhancing the infrastructure that keeps New Zealand moving.
Own Your Career. Build What's Next.
Ko te take ka parekareka e koe ki te mahi ki kōnei | Why you will enjoy working here
Downer is committed to delivering excellence by ensuring our people have the environment and the means to be successful.
We also offer:
This isn't the easy option. It's the smart one.
Our Engineering Cadetship combines full-time work with study, meaning you'll need commitment, discipline, and a willingness to learn. In return, you'll earn while you learn, gain real engineering experience from day one, avoid the large student loan many graduates face, and build a career with one of New Zealand's leading infrastructure businesses. By graduation, you'll have both your qualification and years of industry experience under your belt.
Following the successful completion of our current cadet's journey through the programme, we're excited to offer a new Engineering Cadetship based in New Plymouth.
This opportunity may suit you if you are:
Start Date: The formal programme commencing in January next year. Earlier employment opportunities may be available by agreement.
A Growth Mindset: You enjoy learning, embrace challenges, and are motivated to continually develop yourself.
Initiative: You take ownership, ask questions, and actively seek opportunities to contribute.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career with Downer and become part of a leading company that has a strong footprint in Infrastructure around New Zealand. We place huge value on developing our people and support ongoing training and development opportunities.
Successful cadets graduate into permanent engineering positions, providing the foundation for a long-term engineering career with Downer.
Here’s your chance to join a great team and start developing your engineering career with Downer! If this opportunity interests you, apply via www.downercareers.co.nz. Job number 738282.
Please submit your CV, cover letter and academic transcript (if applicable) through our online recruitment system. Applications submitted via email will not be accepted.
Please note that successful applicants will be required to pass a pre-employment drug test & medical.
Due to the fast-paced nature of Downer, our vacancy close dates may be subject to change, so don't delay and make sure you apply as soon as possible.
At Downer we plan, create and sustain. Downer is the leading provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand. Through trusted relationships and world leading insight we work closely with our customers to design, build and sustain assets, infrastructure, and facilities.
Enabling communities to thrive.
It’s what we’ve done for more than 150 years. Solving problems. Making the extraordinary run smoothly every day. We’re keeping the lights on and the water flowing. Running the hospitals that take care of us. Delivering the transport that takes us from A to B. Maintaining communication networks that keep people connected. Helping our Government and Defence customers keep them protected. Delivering train fleets. Building bridges, roads and streets. Now we’re building momentum too. Moving forward even faster.
Across Australia and New Zealand, we’re transforming the way we work. Unlocking our potential to lead by example. Using our passion and expertise to deliver complex projects and turn fresh ideas into solutions that make society a better place. Creating opportunities for our people, growth and value for our shareholders, and world-class solutions for our customers. Imagining. Innovating. Engineering. Enabling.
