>4,000
employees
$720M
FY25 supply chain spend
Downer delivered Queensland’s first-ever locomotive in 1873, and we’ve been delivering for Queensland ever since.
Our history is deeply rooted in Queensland. Our Maryborough Rail Service Delivery facility has been a key part of the manufacturing industry in Queensland since 1869, and we owe the EDI in our name to the iconic Queensland firm, Evans Deakin Industries, founded in Brisbane more than 100 years ago.
We have proudly worked alongside the Queensland Government for more than 150 years, delivering essential services across the rail, road, water, gas, telco, health, education and defence sectors. And, as Queensland looks to the future with an eye on the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Downer is committed to continuing our proven partnership. Downer is uniquely positioned to support the three pillars of the Queensland Government’s objectives for the community.
Good jobs
Downer is among Queensland’s largest employers, with a workforce of more than 4,000 people in the Sunshine State. Driving opportunities across Queensland’s traditional and emerging industries, Downer helps grow a future-ready workforce. We enable Queensland communities to thrive by creating jobs through infrastructure projects, investing in training and apprenticeships, and growing technical capability across sectors.
Better services
Downer delivers critical public services and infrastructure that underpin health, safety, and community wellbeing. We keep Queensland moving, connected, educated, and safe. From world-class transport networks to frontline service support, Downer’s work strengthens public services and ensures essential services reach every community, every day.
Great lifestyle
The services we deliver across the State help safeguard Queensland’s unique environment while delivering resilient, sustainable infrastructure. Regional growth, renewable energy solutions, cultural inclusion, and future-focused developments are central to how Downer enables communities to thrive.
Key contracts and projects
Queensland Train Manufacturing Program
Queensland Train Manufacturing Program (QTMP). Designing, manufacturing and commissioning 65 six-car passenger trains, which will support rail manufacturing in Queensland, and meet the transport demands for the 2032 Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Passenger fleet
Built, overhauled or supported the through-life-support of every passenger fleet currently serving Queenslanders from our Maryborough facility, in the heart of regional Queensland.
Defence Base estates
Providing facilities and asset management services to Defence Base estates. This includes services to eight Bases and 136 operational sites in Queensland at Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Brisbane, Darling Downs/ Toowoomba, Ipswich and Canungra.
Essential utilities services
Providing essential utilities services throughout Queensland to asset owners, including long-term partnerships with Logan City Council as part of the Logan Water Infrastructure Program Alliance, Unitywater, Urban Utilities, Powerlink, City of Gold Coast, nbn and Telstra.
Transmission infrastructure
Delivering the high voltage transmission infrastructure and connecting renewable energy to the Queensland grid from the Wambo Wind Farm, Lotus Creek Wind Farm, Hydrogen Production Facility at Aldoga, and the Swanbank Battery Energy Storage System
Queensland Government maintenance services
Providing maintenance services to Queensland Government facilities – including hospitals, schools, TAFE campuses, and universities.
Bruce Highway upgrade
Delivered asphalt pavement to two sections of the Bruce Highway upgrade between Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast, widening more than 20 kilometres of road from four to six lanes in both directions, as well as the asphalt pavement for the Bruce Highway Gympie Bypass Cooroy to Curra section
Intelligent Transport System construction and maintenance
Delivering Intelligent Transport System construction and maintenance across South East Queensland, and resurfacing Queensland’s roads in metropolitan and rural areas under both the Downer and RPQ brands.
Gladstone industrial services
Supporting key industrial and power generation facilities in Gladstone, delivering shutdown, turnaround and outage, maintenance services and project work to customers including Gladstone Ports Corporation, Rio Tinto Yarwun, NRG, Orica and Queensland Alumina Limited.