What it does: We bring together diversified engineering, advisory, project delivery, construction, and asset management services.
Mission: Our Purpose is Enabling Communities to Thrive.
Size and presence: We have 5000+ employees working in Australia.
Best known for Calibre Group is a diversified professional service, construction, and maintenance specialist enabling communities to thrive across multiple industry sectors and geographies.
The good bits: Conducive work environment Salary on par with industry
The not-so-good bits: Client portfolio limited with one account as the majority of the company's business.
At Calibre, diversity is key to attracting, retaining, and developing the best talent. It’s what fosters the robust and vibrant dialogue that leads our people to the innovative solutions we provide our clients.
Caliber is committed to developing an equitable and inclusive working environment with mutual respect for all employees. Caliber’s vision for inclusion and diversity encompasses a range of factors including indigenous engagement, ethnicity, disability, age, educational experience, and gender.
Caliber is committed to increasing women's representation in senior management positions as well as throughout our workforce. Each year Calibre submits our annual public reports to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) to the requirements of the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012. Caliber doubled female representation in management positions and has also increased female representation in the overall workforce since 2018.
Caliber is an Endorsed Employer for Women through our partnership with WORK180 - a global jobs network of employers with policies and benefits in place to support women's careers. WORK180's focus is to share information with female job seekers about pay equity, flexible working, paid parental leave, equal opportunities, and a range of other important criteria.
In New Zealand, Calibre is proud to be a signatory of the Diversity Agenda Accord - a commitment to drive real behavioral change in the engineering profession to become more inclusive through awareness, empowerment, and action.
As our most valuable asset, we invest in our employees’ personal and professional growth. We provide a range of benefits, including ongoing professional development, on-the-job training, study support, leadership and management programs, competitive remuneration packages, generous employee referral incentives, and a host of health and wellbeing benefits to help you thrive.
Rewarding careers are not just about remuneration. Recognition for a job well done and job satisfaction are equally important to the career experience, as is the opportunity to reach your potential.
At Calibre, you’ll find yourself in a dynamic role, constantly challenged and encouraged to learn and grow. You’ll work with people who know success first-hand. The energy is infectious as new projects land and ideas flow.
You'll have access to mentors and fellow staff to help support your professional development and provide clarity around your career path.
Whichever path you choose you to know your career will accelerate at Calibre.
We know that everyone works differently. And that everyone’s life situation requires unique consideration.
Talk to us about your needs. We’re listening and are keen to work with you to ensure our work delivers the right work-life balance.
We’re pretty confident that what works for you, will also work for us and our clients.
Our intimate office environments mean that staff gets to know, respect, and care for each other. We help and inspire one another daily, both in the office and out on site. Whether it’s catching up over morning teas and monthly BBQs, celebrating milestones, firing up over a friendly soccer match, bonding at team-building weekends, uniting to support worthwhile causes, or sharing knowledge at industry events … Life at Calibre is never boring.
Under the leadership of Western Australia HSEQ Manager, Vanessa Saunders, 27 computers and associated IT equipment has been donated to Shalom House, a men's residential Rehabilitation Centre located in the heart of the Swan Valley in Western Australia.
A not-for-profit organization run entirely by donations and mostly volunteers, Shalom House provides a holistic rehabilitation program aimed at helping residents restore aspects of their life, such as finances, relationships, employment, education, and training for the future.
The computers will be housed in a new administration building, which has just been completed, with two computers to act as servers and the rest to be used by staff.
George Nuich, Executive General Manager – Projects Division, said, “With Calibre’s donation, the provision of services to enable men and their families to develop key life skills can be continued and we would like to recognize the efforts of Vanessa in coordinating this.”
“At Calibre, giving back to our communities is an important part of how we do business,” he said.
As Fiji continues to rebuild after Cyclone Winston in February 2016, staff from Calibre Consulting are proud to have supervised a team of RMIT University civil and infrastructure engineering students as they developed engineering design and construction plans for the rebuilding of a school on Fiji’s remote Koro Island.
Category 5 Cyclone Winston swept through Fiji with 330km/h winds causing mass destruction and completely flattening some areas. It is the most powerful cyclone to make landfall in the South Pacific region, with 40,000 homes damaged or destroyed and roughly 40 percent of Fiji's population significantly impacted by the storm.
Approximately 265 schools were severely damaged (63 destroyed), leaving around 100,000 children in temporary school facilities as the schools await to be rebuilt.
Calibre’s James Tabban, Manager – Structures, led eighteen undergraduate students in their final year of engineering to design an economical and locally appropriate structure that will provide three classrooms for around 60 children on Koro Island.
“The project provided students not only an opportunity to contribute to a worthy development but also offered unique learning challenges associated with building structures in remote locations with limited resources,” James Taban said.
“Koro is an eight-hour ferry ride from the main island of Fiji (Viti Levu). Students needed to consider the logistics of getting materials to a site in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, as well as what resources and skills the community can or cannot contribute.
“As a result, everything was modularized, with the idea that all materials can be conveyed in one container and involve little or no specialist skills to construct.”
Students participated in the project as part of a three-week intensive Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program, which provides an Engineers Australia (EA) accredited alternative to the 12 weeks of work placement students are required to complete before they can graduate.
James Tabban worked with RMIT in 2015 to set up the WIL program in response to the shortage of placement availabilities for engineering students. His structures team has now helped to lead two successful sessions.
Although this year’s WIL program has concluded, the students can continue working on the school's rebuilding project in Fiji as the works progress.