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Subsidised Healthcare
Fully subsidised contribution to Marram Community Trust. This contribution allows you and your whānau to be reimbursed for your health bills along with having access to affordable holidays. This contribution includes your partner and children under 18 years of age, all at no additional cost. Pre-existing conditions are also covered - T&Cs apply.
Volunteering Days
You can apply for a day of paid leave to volunteer for an initiative important to you. Past volunteering days included:
Flexible Working
Depending on your role, we offer a range of flexible work options including:
Wellbeing
We understand how important health and well-being are to a balanced lifestyle. Here’s what you get access to:
Deals and discounts from local and national retailers
Access to more than 40 discount offers including:
Whānau Scholarships
This initiative gives the children and grandchildren of Downer employees the opportunity to be granted with a scholarship of $5,000 for a year of tertiary study. Regardless of the area of study, the whānau scholarships are an opportunity to lend a hand and help grow the next generation of leaders, by supporting our people’s people.
Enhanced Parental Leave
We offer comprehensive return-to-work benefits for those returning from parental leave. When returning to work after parental leave, we’ll help you Ease Back to Work. You can choose for the first 12 weeks of your return to work 4 days a week and be paid for 5.
Development and Career Opportunities
Our range of more than 50 learning and development programmes includes:
Our people Own it through our Own’D recognition programme! In order to celebrate the difference our people bring, we launched Own'd - an internal recognition programme which makes it easy to praise a peer, congratulate a co-worker, recognise a team member, record a customer or client compliment, or even support a supervisor in recognition of their hard work and dedication.
Our people are our greatest asset and we want to empower them to do great things. Nominated by our people, awards take place monthly, quarterly and annually acknowledging the outstanding contributions that have been made to the teams and communities in which our winners work.
Stitching us together as one are family and relationships, care & respect, and excellence and integrity as our cloak of values.
The same as the great trees growing in the great forest of Tāne is the Kauri which connects us to Safety, the Rimu which connects us to Delivery, the Tōtara which connects us to Relationships and the Kahikatea which connects us to Thought Leadership.
These are the four pillars upon which we build “Relationship creating success”. United and ready to move forward!