Downer Group Work–Life Balance reviews

It is a casual work with a tight schedule. It is suitable for students who are looking for fixed income while completing your degree. It does not promote career growth

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Great working conditions.

Electrical Group Training - Apprentice (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 9 June 2016

Toolbox meeting in the morning about works for the day and crew assigned. Management was fantastic will dealing with different situations that occurred. Gain a lot of knowledge and skills in the electrical industry.

Pros

Fantastic crew

Cons

Long hours

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Fair pay for job
Ability to learn new things

The company fell away once the old manager left the business

Senior Health and Safety Advisor (Former Employee) - Mount Isa QLD - 30 May 2016

Getting all supervisors to agree on scheduled times for training and safety related meeting and issues. That made it very hard to get the message across to all the employees in a timely manner

Pros

Most of the guys were good to work for

Cons

New manager was hard to deal with.

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Electrical Maintenance Engineer/Leading Hand. (Former Employee) - Karratha, Western Australia. - 24 May 2016

Downers are Australia's largest electrical contractor. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there. Work is generally 10/12 hour days, 25 days on 10 days off. Great opportunity maintaining Australia's largest LNG plant. 30 plus years old plant so every day posed a challenge. Made many great friends. The long days and roster's were an obvious challenge, fatigue management was key. Made great friends and learned every day.

Pros

Constantly trained and educated.

Cons

Long work cycle.

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great team environment

SENIOR SUPERVISOR PRODUCTION (Current Employee) - Christmas Creek QLD - 29 April 2016

Good company to work for, strong people focus. great team environment with my co-workers, easy to come to work each day.

Pros

work life balance

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dump truck operator (Current Employee) - Christmas Creek WA - 27 April 2016

A week of day shift followed by a week of nights working amongst safety and procedure conscious people. A good blend of indigenous people working harmoniously amongst us. We work well as a team .Always keen to work and jumped at the chance to jump in a truck..Hot seating. Not much fun sitting in a crib waiting around so easier to get up and get on with the job.

Pros

safety concious

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Excellent Company

Instrumentation and Electrical Technician (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 17 March 2016

Excellent company to work for very professional and well organised setup. I worked as a maintenance and breakdown technician with this company

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Developer & Administrator (Current Employee) - North Ryde NSW - 12 March 2016

Career progression at Downer is very limited and the company goes through organisational changes very frequently that has direct impact on individual's performance.

Pros

Big group

Cons

frequent changes in organisation

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busy and fun

Purchasing Officer (Former Employee) - Eveleigh NSW - 2 March 2016

lots of dead lines to meet learnt lots about rail network stressful environment at times great co-workers management was ok

Pros

job satisfaction

Cons

long hours

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Electrical Maintainer (Current Employee) - Western Australia - 26 February 2016

Downer EDI Mining is a great company to work for, good career progression oppurtunities, good renumeration, management are helpful and approachable.

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Machine Operator/Leading Hand/Trades Assistant (Former Employee) - Toowoomba South QLD - 10 February 2016

I enjoyed my two times at Tenix, although both on contracts, as I found all the staff and management very helpful. I would have no hesitation if required, to rejoin this company.

Pros

Work life balance

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Electrician (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 9 February 2016

Morning prestart and discuss jobs and tasks for the day and assign them to the work crew on site. Commercial construction experience Good solid management and supervisory staff Good guys to work with. Made the job a lot easier. The hot days were really hard but working with a good bunch of guys really made the difference.

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Electrician (Former Employee) - Perth/Karratha - 9 February 2016

My everyday work would involve pre start meeting every morning to discuss relevant tasks throughout the day that would have to be carried out or completed. Im a fast learner and always driven to learn something new. I can well in a team environment and I'm a very easy person to get along with. I do thrive on working alone as well, as in some jobs/tasks, too many cooks can spoil the broth. The hardest part of the job is expecting nothing ever to be "perfect" but to thrive and make the best out any situation and do it the best I possibly can. The most enjoyable part of the job is being able to develop amazing relationships you do with co-workers and being able to bounce ideas off each other is a key in this industry.

Pros

Support myself and my family

Cons

Hot weather

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boilermaker /welding (Former Employee) - Kalgoorlie WA - 9 February 2016

my industrie is to communicate and to understand each other we working with different cultures and people and it is my responsibility to make sure its done right.

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Great place to work

Construction Worker-gofer (Former Employee) - Cooma, NSW - 17 January 2016

THE BEST COMPANY I HAVE EVER WORKED WITH AND FOR Traveling from one end of the windfarm to the other,checking sings and garbage levels. Management and co-workers were all safety conceious at all times. HARDEST part of the job was working out what to do first out of daily items. Most enjoyable part of the job was ticking things off the default list.

Pros

being able to finish early when jobs were done.

Cons

long hours at times

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well organised

MECHANICAL FITTER (Former Employee) - karatha, wa - 12 December 2015

I like the people I worked with. the type of work I was involved with was very interesting and rewarding. would like to work with these people again.

Pros

good accomodation

Cons

long hours

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Good Company to work for. Good Culture.

Ultra Class Truck Supervisor (Current Employee) - BlackWater - 7 November 2015

Have worked under BMA with Downer Mining. Downer keeps thing simple with a lot of discipline. BMA make a lot of changes to policies and over complicates matters. Over all I enjoy working in the mining industry I have done so with working for OEM,s and directly working for Contractors over most of my life.

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One of those roles where you are do not always know what is going to happen next.

Senior HSE Advisor/Relief HSE Manager (Current Employee) - Western Australia - 31 October 2015

As a senior leader in HSE your role is one of responsibility and drive to implement ideas that at times might be from out the box to gain a buy in from all of our employees. It is a role that is heavily on behaviour and relationships to get the best out of all Downer employees.

Pros

Pride in that you are making a difference

Cons

Working away from family

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National Zero Harm Safety Manager (Current Employee) - Sydney - 23 October 2015

It was a rather good company to work with. Lots of challenges working across all states of Australia. A Calculative culture, with pockets above and below. Safety is important from the corporate office

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Big Company lots of jobs going on

Trades Assistant Electrical and Mechanical (Former Employee) - CSBP NANNA 3 PROJECT - 13 October 2015

Lots of work setting up work areas for different trades. Working out what they need and having ready before they ask they like that forward thing. Supervision always there for support and ready to listen and give there advice working on big contracts, not all things go to plan, working with a good bunch of mates just makes the day go quicker