Downer celebrates 120 years in New South Wales

25/09/2018

The Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, today joined Downer employees to celebrate 120 years of engineering and manufacturing history in Western Sydney.

The Prime Minister recognised the proud history of hardworking Australians from Downer who have built and maintained trains, trams, power plants, mines, roads, bridges, ships, tractors, tankers, oil rigs, aircraft and agricultural machinery.

The Chief Executive Officer of Downer, Grant Fenn, praised the contribution made by the thousands of men and women who have worked for the company for more than a century in New South Wales.

“Western Sydney is the birthplace of Australian industry and since the 1880s people at this site have been delivering world class projects, from the first locomotive to WWII aircraft to the new Waratah trains,” Mr Fenn said.

“We are extremely proud of our heritage and the long list of iconic projects in Western Sydney and across New South Wales that we have been involved in.

“At the old Granville site our people built the northern approach to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and today at the Auburn Maintenance Centre they’re building and maintaining the trains that transport commuters across the Bridge and the Sydney network.”

Downer employs approximately 56,000 people across a wide range of industries, with more than 7,000 people working at 50 locations across New South Wales. A large percentage of them are in Western Sydney.

Downer has a long history of delivering multi-disciplined, integrated transport and infrastructure projects under a variety of contracting models.

The company is recognised for safely delivering complex turnkey solutions and achieving reliable whole-of-life asset management outcomes.

Downer’s services include design, build, operation and maintenance of rolling stock, depots,
signalling, track and station works, roads and bridges.

We work closely with customers to develop advanced mobility solutions and to make innovation a reality, such as on-demand transport and autonomous vehicles, answering to the evolving needs of local communities.