At Downer, your professional growth and development starts with you. Were all about converting potential into performance and empowering you to create a development plan that will take you where you want to go and allow you to be your best.

Our performance development plan process facilitates the alignment of your performance to your career goals. Our employee driven tool enables regular performance conversations, timely support, greater understanding, career progression and ongoing feedback on your performance development plan. At Downer it’s your performance, your career and your conversation.

Our development programs are custom built to provide best practice for our people. Programs are delivered by internal subject matter experts and expert facilitators with industry knowledge and experience. Our programs are all developed to build capability to drive your future success.

The value of a good mentor is immeasurable when it comes to learning the “tricks of the trade” as well as becoming connected to those in the know, who are committed to sharing. Downer’s mentoring program provides you with the opportunity to further develop into a high performing leader and enables you to establish key relationships.

We are committed to keeping our people up to date with the latest skills, knowledge and expertise as part of building a capable workforce for tomorrow. We encourage our people to continue their education journey. If we can’t teach it, we support them to look at TAFE or University to develop their skill set.

The work that Downer does is almost as diverse as its workforce. With over 53,000 people and more than 300 locations, Downer is constantly looking to support its people to gain new skills through engagement in different areas of our business through formal secondments.