Kemble Slotemaker shows that women can thrive in what has been a male-dominated area of work and has paved the way for other women to join the Downer’s water maintenance team.
Infrastructure career top of the list for female students
Hundreds of female secondary school students from throughout the country have just had a taste of a career in infrastructure – and they’ve loved it.
Brodie Henry is crushing it thanks to Girls with Hi-Vis®
Attending a Girls with Hi-Vis event in 2022 set Brodie Henry on her career path. Since January Brodie has been with Downer Gisborne full-time, working on the crusher at Waerenga-o-kauri Quarry breaking down material into gravel that will be used on work sites around the region, including those damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle.
The key to more women in infrastructure
Boosting our visibility, and helping young women recognise the opportunities the infrastructure industry can offer them, will come down to showing as well as telling.
Female students turn their hand to infrastructure jobs
This month’s series of Girls with Hi-Vis® (GWHV) events aims to attract young women to the industry and will see close to 800 students from 80 schools – including 35 schools involved for the first time – experiencing what the infrastructure industry has to offer as a career.
Celebrating women in infrastructure
Young women are the face of the infrastructure industry’s future.
A word from our Director – for learners
As a key provider and developer of infrastructure training, one of our overarching goals at Connexis | Te Pūkenga is to support our learners as they work to develop their skills and careers.
A word from our Director – May
As a key provider and developer of infrastructure training, one of our overarching goals at Connexis | Te Pūkenga is to support both learners and employers as we all work to build skills capability for the individual, company and industry.
New wind farm programmes
The NZ Certificate in Wind Farm Maintenance (Level 3) focuses on the servicing aspects of wind farm maintenance. The NZ Certificate in Wind Farm Maintenance (Level 4) focuses on wind farm diagnostic and repair maintenance activities.
A deeper understanding of health and safety
When Connexis Central Region Area Manager Jason Belcher was looking at training options to extend his own area of expertise, he turned to the NZ Certificate of Workplace Health and Safety Practice (Level 3).
