Since its inception in 1870, Downer EDI Works has built and maintained a huge percentage of the infrastructure assets that now sustain our communities.

Our challenge this century is how to best build on that heritage in ways that help our customers develop and maintain sustainable communities for the benefit of their stakeholders.

Put another way, we want to be leaders in helping our customers succeed.

Today we are a company of over 3,300 people, generating in excess of $750m sales annually, with significant representation in almost every New Zealand community.

We are united by our passion to be the best at what we do, driven by our single minded focus to exceed our customers’ expectations of us and guided by our vision to: “be the first choice business partner of infrastructure owners in New Zealand and the Pacific.”

We want to help our clients grow and shape their future and to find better ways to provide whole-of-life support for the infrastructure assets underpinning their communities.

While we are driven to help our customers succeed, our people set us apart. They are our local heroes. What they do builds our reputation with our customers and, through them, our communities.

Thus our commitment to attracting and developing the very best people to work with our customers is total and ongoing. For example, we have established learning programmes focussed on the development of better individuals.

Better individuals create better teams, better teams deliver better results and better results enhance the community presence and reputation of our customers.

Cos Bruyn

Chief Executive Officer
Downer EDI Works Limited