For much of the past seven months many of you, across civil, energy, telecommunications, and water, have been actively engaged in helping your communities rebuild, repair and recover after what has, at times, seemed like a continual series of weather events.
Bailey Taylor worked with the small four-person team at PowerNet’s Te Anau depot every Friday through his last year of high school. That experience saw him employed by the company as a full-time trainee at the start of 2023.
The first half of 2023 has been a busy but constructive period as we continue to support New Zealand’s infrastructure industries through the challenge of meeting the demand for skilled staff.
Te Meihana Williams loves his job as an apprentice line mechanic, but may not have discovered without the opportunity to try it out through the Connexis Gateway programme.
When Kayleb Hancock was considering his career options he turned to the Connexis Gateway programme to learn more about what a job in the energy sector might be like, before leaving school.
Over the months of April and May, Connexis | Te Pūkenga launched two new scholarships to support ākonga (learners), the Financial Assistance Fund and the Outward Bound Scholarship.
The new New Zealand Certificate in Roadmarking (Level 3) offers workers the opportunity to have their skills recognised, while offering newcomers an important entry point into civil infrastructure careers.
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.
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.
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.
