Downer Reviews

Pros

Large, diverse across industry and present all across Australia

Cons

Communication and development of employees leaves a lot to be desired

Pros

Local company that doesnt doesnt have to answer to ivory towers overseas

Cons

More hours than ancitipated usually

Pros

They will readily employ entry-level engineers and granted many learning experiences.

Cons

They were horribly understaffed, having no choice but to throw new employees into the deep end with minimal training. Staff morale was lower than I have seen in any other workplace due to a history of mistreatment and lack of respect from middle-management. And that's not even to mention the fact that many staff contracts were brought to light due to their suspicious nature of underpaying staff. The "safety-first" aspect of the job was highly pretentious. There was no shortage of signage and safety inductions, which were blatantly ignored with various activities which placed employees in high-risk scenarios on a near-daily basis (being elevated without a harness, breathing silica dust without the provision of an effective mask, overly-strenuous manual labour, etc.) I would not recommend working for the Downer branch in Victoria.