Our Culture
We aim to create a high-performing culture where our people have high levels of engagement and enjoy coming to work each day. A great culture and highly engaged people correlate strongly to business success, and we actively measure and influence engagement to ensure we are continually improving year on year.
Our people are guided by our purpose and four values – Protect, Be Bold, Customer Leading, and Better Together – which help us create the kind of workplace that delivers great results, in the right way.
Our Careers
With some 30 different business units operating in New Zealand, Australia, and the South Pacific there is a world of opportunity waiting for you at Fletcher Building.
Many of our businesses and brands are household names. We employ Engineers, Innovators, Salespeople, Marketers, Business Support & Administrators, Manufacturers, Truck drivers, Accountants, Human Resources experts, and Digital and Technology gurus amongst many others.
If your values align with ours and you’d like to find out more about working at Fletcher Building, check out our current vacancies.
Our Benefits
Joining Fletcher Building comes with a whole range of other benefits. In addition to our great parental leave, wee look after our people with exclusive health and wellness discounts on popular brands including Southern Cross, Bupa Health Care, and Specsavers/OPSM and generous discounts on well-known tech brands and our very own products.
To help our people balance work and personal commitments we provide a variety of different flexible work options, including flexible working hours, part-time roles, and working-from-home.
Our Employee Education Fund supports our people and their family's personal and professional growth through funding for educational programmes and upskilling.
We're also helping to invest in the financial wellbeing of our people, with the opportunity to join our very own employee share scheme FBuShare and receive contributions to KiwiSaver and AustralianSuper.
Our Parental Leave Policy
Our great Parental Leave Policy helps our people welcome a new addition to their family and make it easier to continue their career at Fletcher Building when they come return to work.
Our parental leave includes enhanced paid leave options for primary carers, four weeks paid secondary carers leave and ‘phased return to work options’ to help our people transition back in to work when they return from parental leave.
You can find out more information in the Parental Leave Policy.
Inclusion + Diversity
Fletcher Building believes in a workplace where differences in gender, gender identity, age, race, nationality, sexual orientation, physical ability, thinking style and background are welcomed and included.
It’s important that all our people can access the opportunities available and can bring their ‘whole self’ to work. We will put ourselves in others shoes, learn from each other and speak up when things don’t seem right.
Some of our activities to support inclusion and diversity are:
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We are members of Champions for Change who drive for diversity and inclusion in workplaces.
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We provide training and educational support for our people through our Employee Educational Fund.
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Our people-led action groups – Lōkahi, Tātai, the Equality Network Group, and FB Pride promote inclusion and mentoring across our business.
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We are Rainbow Tick accredited.
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We are a principal sponsor of the First Foundation which focused on development and work opportunities for youth and those from challenging backgrounds.
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Our Māori and Pasifika leadership programme, Whakatupu-Iatupu is developing a pipeline of Māori and Pasifika leaders.
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We work with universities, the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and the Women in Infrastructure Network to attract more women into our industry.
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In 2019, we launched Tradelink Women in Plumbing, an initiative that champions women in the plumbing industry and our internal Women in Technology group is now up and running.
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We offer Gender Affirmation Leave of 10 days paid leave for people transitioning and provide guidelines to help people leaders and colleagues support those transitioning.
Passion and Dedication to Belonging
Our Pride group is the driving force behind our long standing commitment to diversity across our business. Their passion and dedication have been instrumental in transforming our workplaces, sites, and offices into spaces where everyone belongs. From upholding our Rainbow Tick, fostering understanding through educational initiatives, organising vibrant events that celebrate our differences - the Pride Group's impact is immeasurable.
Creating career opportunities for Women
Fletcher Building aims to increase the presence and impact of women in operational and leadership roles. We believe that to grow a healthier, more diverse workforce we have a responsibility to encourage women to take up fantastic career opportunities that are available across our sector.
In FY23 we set ourselves the ambitious target to have 30% women in leadership roles by FY27. To achieve this goal, our businesses have developed gender balance action plans which outline a variety of activities to achieve the targets, including development opportunities, flexible working conditions, cadet programmes, mentoring and recruitment strategies.
In FY25, the overall proportion of women in leadership was 25%, an increase from 23.2% in FY24.
Women to Leadership
One of our flagship programmes is Women to Leadership (WTL), a 10-month group mentoring initiative designed to help advance the careers of women within our business. The programme focuses on creating meaningful opportunities for professional growth by offering structured support and development pathways tailored to women aspiring to leadership roles.
Through this initiative, participants benefit from peer mentorship and sponsorship by senior leaders - two critical factors that contribute to women’s career success.
The programme harnesses women’s strengths and potential, helping to grow leadership confidence while providing targeted skills and capability development in areas that are often barriers to progression. In addition, it fosters the expansion and strengthening of professional networks across the wider Fletcher Building Group, enhancing relationships and collaboration. By supporting these elements, Women to Leadership plays a key role in building a more inclusive culture and advancing diversity within the business.
WTL mid-year event
FBuCall
We are committed to promoting a culture of compliance, honesty and ethical behaviour. We want the people who work for us, and those we do business with, to be comfortable approaching the organisation with any concerns about conduct which appears unethical or improper. We provide a confidential service called FBuCall for staff and those we do business with to raise concerns.
FBuCall is a free and anonymous phone and online service. It is managed externally, independently of Fletcher Building.