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Our People

Bring your skills to the transport industry

Are you wondering if you can transfer your current skills to a new career? One that will give you work life balance, a good income and enjoyable working days?

Our team of bus drivers, depot administration and support staff, engineers and mechanics, come from diverse work and cultural backgrounds and they love the work they do. They’re outdoors every day, they enjoy social connection with people, they love being responsible for the safety and comfort of their passengers, and they value their work life balance.

About you

  • Do you want autonomy in your working day?
  • Do you enjoy being out and about and part of the community?
  • Do you enjoy providing good customer service?
  • Do you like looking after other people?
  • Do you love to drive?
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Our team have plenty to say!

Our bus drivers and support team are a happy group! Listen to what they have to say about their working day and why they love being a bus driver.

Roxana

I have autonomy in my day-to-day work. I’m independent. It’s just me on the bus looking after my passengers, getting people where they need to go.

Greg

I like being outdoors and I like being a driver coach.

Carmen

I like being a regular friendly face for my passengers, as part of their daily routine, it’s very rewarding knowing that we play such vital role.

Helma

Ever since I became a bus driver, I have developed more confidence in myself.

Chan

I’m not stuck in the office in front of a screen. I’m out and about and the view from the office changes every day!

When you join Keolis Downer Northern Beaches, you’ll be joining one of the nation’s leading transport operators with more than 5000 staff across 25 operational sites across Australia and New Zealand.

Working at Keolis Downer

The business is committed to providing a fun, safe and enjoyable workplace for all our staff. Our culture is one that embraces our core values and shared commitment to the development of high performing natural leaders within our organisation. We are proud to recruit, train and retain only the most talented professionals throughout our operations, who share our customer and safety-focused approach.

As a culturally diverse business, our people work across a variety of roles including safety and quality, customer service, operations, infrastructure, finance, marketing and communications, human resources, and administration. Our staff are at the core of what we do, and by cultivating the right environment and values, we have an engaged workforce with a sense of team spirit throughout the Company.

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People and Culture

Our team currently enjoy many additional benefits:

An inclusive workplace
Attractive remuneration and benefits
Extensive induction and on the job training
Nationally recognised qualifications
Health and wellbeing programs
Employee recreation and leisure activities
Great opportunities within our broad portfolio of subsidiary businesses
Autonomy and flexibility
Paid leave
Staff memberships for benefits and discounts
Career development and opportunities
A supportive work environment

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Our vision, mission and values

When you join Keolis Downer, you are joining a company who is committed to the wellbeing of its staff and passengers. We care, we commit, we imagine and we focus on zero harm to our people, passengers and the environment by developing, embedding and building a safety culture at all levels of the organisation.

Our Vision

Our Vision is to be the partner of choice for public transport authorities to support the development of more liveable cities and regions.

Our Mission

We operate and integrate all transport modes and co-design mobility solutions that are safe, reliable, sustainable and adapted to the evolving needs of the community. We Think Like a Passenger.

Our Values

We care | We commit | We imagine | Zero harm | Think like a passenger

Our Values, Think Like a Passenger

Our Values

We care: we are all in this together. We care for our people, our communities and provide mobility services that are inclusive and adapted to local needs. We build trust with public transport authorities by forging partnerships based on collaboration and transparency, we are custodians of their assets.

We commit: we will deliver. We provide transport services that are safe and reliable, we strive to achieve operational excellence. We deliver on our contractual commitments and act responsibly to develop sustainable mobility in every city and region where we operate.

We imagine: we create new solutions. We operate multimodal mobility services to help transport authorities deliver their vision for tomorrow, by supporting their approach and bringing new ideas to the table, based on our local knowledge and drawing from international best practice.

Zero Harm. We deliver continuous improvement by focusing on reductions in harm to our people, passengers and the environment. We develop, embed and build a safety culture at all levels of the organisation supported by accountability, trust and fairness.

Read more about Keolis Downer here.

Check out current vacancies available
Want to chat?
Call us on 02 9941 5888