Engineering Cadetship: Earn While You Learn with Rotations

Downer & Company; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Earn While You Learn

Study Leave

Mentoring

Structured Rotations

Job summary

Downer & Company in New Zealand offers an Engineering Cadetship that blends full-time work with study. Cadets gain real engineering experience from day one and build a foundation for a long-term career with one of New Zealand's leading infrastructure businesses.

The program includes financial assistance, study leave, mentoring, structured development plans, and rotations through civil construction, transport infrastructure, project delivery, and maintenance, with graduates moving into permanent

Qualifications

• We look for candidates pursuing a NZ Diploma in Engineering (Civil) with study costs supported by Downer.
• Open to final-year NZDE (Civil) students ready to commence full-time employment.
• Tradespeople seeking a career change into engineering and interested in completing the NZDE qualification.

Responsibilities

• Participate in structured rotations across civil construction, transport infrastructure, project delivery, and maintenance operations.
• Gain practical engineering experience from day one and contribute to real projects.
• Cadets may graduate into permanent engineering positions within Downer.

Skills

Growth Mindset

Initiative

Adaptability

Math Ability

Safety Consciousness

Education

NZ Diploma in Engineering (Civil)

Job description

Downer & Company in New Zealand offers an Engineering Cadetship that blends full-time work with study. Cadets gain real engineering experience from day one and build a foundation for a long-term career with one of New Zealand's leading infrastructure businesses.

The program includes financial assistance, study leave, mentoring, structured development plans, and rotations through civil construction, transport infrastructure, project delivery, and maintenance, with graduates moving into permanent