Wellington’s Major Employers

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Wellington is New Zealand’s capital city. As a result, there are many more government administration jobs here than in other New Zealand cities. All of the employers listed below have more than five hundred employees, many in locations throughout New Zealand.

Accident Compensation Corporation
ACC is a Crown entity responsible for preventing injury, collecting personal injury cover levies, determining whether claims for injury are covered by the scheme and providing entitlements to those who are eligible, paying compensation, buying health and disability support services to treat, care for and rehabilitate injured people, advising the government. We provide accident cover, injury prevention services, case management, medical and other care and rehabilitation services.

AMP Financial Services
We are a leading financial services company operating primarily in New Zealand and Australia. We provide quality financial advice and competitive products to almost 400,000 customers in New Zealand and over three million customers across Australasia. We employ around 330 advisers throughout New Zealand and more than 350 staff in financial services and asset management.

ANZ National Bank Limited
ANZ National Bank Limited is one of New Zealand’s leading banking and financial services groups. More than one million New Zealanders bank with ANZ.

Barnados New Zealand
Barnardos is a not-for-profit organisation determined to ensure that Children Come First. Our hardworking people make a huge difference in the lives of many children. They are the heart and soul of Barnardos New Zealand.
We are often on the look out for qualified social workers, community workers and qualified and registered early childhood teachers – right throughout the country.

BP Oil New Zealand Ltd
For over half a century BP has been providing New Zealanders with the best in fuel, lubricants and convenience retailing. Today, around 1200 people work for us in a variety of jobs all around the country.

Capital and Coast District Health Board
With around 3,500 staff, C&C DHB is a major employer in the Wellington region. C&C DHB operates two hospitals – Wellington and Kenepuru and as well as the Kapiti Health Centre at Paraparaumu. There are also a number of community bases.

Child, Youth and Family
Child, Youth and Family is the government agency that has legal powers to intervene to protect and help children who are being abused or neglected or who have problem behaviour.

Civil Aviation Authority of NZ
In New Zealand there are about 9000 pilots and 3350 aircraft. More than 4.5 million passengers travel on our main airlines’ domestic services and 2.69 million arrive on international air carriers each year. Their safety is overseen by the CAA. The CAA establishes civil aviation safety and security standards, and monitors adherence to those standards. The CAA carries out accident and incident investigations and collates this material to establish an industry-wide safety picture. This becomes the basis of safety initiatives ranging from education campaigns to increased monitoring and regulatory action. The CAA also provides search and rescue services throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific, and meets New Zealand’s obligations to the international civil aviation community.

Contact Energy Limited
We are the largest wholesaler and retailer of natural gas in the country and we generate about 30% of New Zealand’s electricity. Contact has ten power stations around the country including hydro, geothermal and gas turbine. We employ over 500 people throughout New Zealand, and place great emphasis on their training and development. Our head office is in Wellington and we have two customer service call centres, in Levin and Dunedin.

The Correspondence School
The Correspondence School has around 500 teaching and support staff based across the school’s four sites in Wellington. There are four Directorates within The Correspondence School, including: Teaching and Learning Years 9-13, Early Childhood and Primary, Special Needs Education and Corporate Services. The administration and professional areas of the school include:The Registry (where enrolments are processed), Media Services (where course work is produced), Information and Communication Technology and the Student Resource Centre (where resources are stored and mail is processed). The school also has regional representatives throughout New Zealand who provide valuable support to full-time students and their families.

Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation is the central government organisation charged with conserving the natural and historic heritage of New Zealand on behalf of and for the benefit of present and future New Zealanders.
Its mission is “to conserve New Zealand’s natural and historic heritage for all to enjoy now and in the future”. The Department of Conservation employs almost 1,500 permanent staff and up to 500 temporary and seasonal workers, depending on the time of year.

Department of Corrections
The Department of Corrections contributes to community safety by ensuring sentences and orders are administered appropriately, offenders are managed safely, securely and humanely and by reducing re-offending. The Department employs about 5,000 staff based at a number of sites throughout the country.

Department of Internal Affairs
The Department of Internal Affairs employs about 1,000 people in 19 locations throughout New Zealand, plus offices in Sydney and London. The Department serves and connects citizens, communities and government to build a strong, safe nation.

Department of Labour
The DOL provide services in Immigration, employment relations, occupational safety and health and community employment. The Department employs approximately 1,570 staff with a wide range of professional skills, knowledge and experience to support New Zealanders’ working lives. Roles include frontline delivery; managers; mediators; occupational safety and health inspectors; immigration officers; labour inspectors; community employment fieldworkers; policy advisers and analysts; researchers; accountants; planners; lawyers; IT professionals; communications and media; human resources; administration staff, and statutory officers of related Courts and Authorities.

Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-op Society Ltd
Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-Operative Society Limited is one of three regionally separate, autonomous, retailer-owned co-operative companies that comprise the Foodstuffs group of companies. Trading under the Pak’N Save, Write Price, New World, Shoprite, On the Spot Liquorland, Henry’s Beer Wines & Spirits and Four Square banners, members of Foodstuffs (Wellington) Co-operative Society Ltd group jointly account for over 65% of the grocery turnover in the southern half of the North Island.

Hannahs
Hannahs is a New Zealand icon of over 130 years and remains New Zealand’s largest specialty footwear retailer. The company has its headquarters and distribution centre at Porirua, Wellington, with 53 stores throughout New Zealand.

HP Enterprise Services (New Zealand) Limited
HP offers a full portfolio of information technology (IT) infrastructure, applications, and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. HP is also New Zealand’s largest IT employer with staff located throughout the country. The New Zealand applications business operates an HP certified Centre of Excellence for Data Engineering and a Sun certified Java Centre of Excellence. It also has significant expertise in .NET, Java and SAP testing, and legacy migration. HP New Zealand is accredited to handle work for HP clients based offshore and operates a state-of-the-art help desk based in Auckland. The company also runs one of New Zealand’s largest print and mail distribution centres located in Christchurch.

Housing New Zealand Corporation
Housing New Zealand provides New Zealanders with access to good quality, affordable homes. It is also the government’s main advisor on housing, and services related to housing. About 850 people are employed by the Corporation.

Hutt Valley District Health Board
The Hutt Valley District Health Board is responsible for planning, prioritising, funding and providing government-funded health care and disability support services for the 135,000 people that live in the Hutt Valley. We employ approximately 1,800 people, most of whom work for Hutt Hospital and our community and regional health services.

IBM New Zealand Ltd
The main locations are Wellington and Auckland with limited opportunities in Christchurch.

Inland Revenue Department
Inland Revenue has 22 sites nationwide and employs over 4,700 staff. We collect most of the revenue that government needs to fund its programmes. We also administer a number of social support programmes.

Interislander
In total, Interislander employs 567 full time staff. 68 work in the Head Office environment, 98 at the terminals, and 401 onboard the ships themselves. Ship crew is made up of 67 officers, 62 engineers, 175 catering crew and 97 deck crew. Interislander offers daily ferry services across Cook Strait – providing a vital transport link between New Zealand’s North and South Islands for passengers and their vehicles, commercials vehicles and rail freight. Our fleet consists of four vessels – two multi-purpose conventional vessels, one conventional freight only vessel and one high speed passenger vessel.

KPMG Ltd
KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms. In New Zealand, we operate nationally across five offices with 53 partners and 720 people.

Land Information New Zealand
LINZ holds information about land surveys and ownership, topographic maps and nautical charts. We make sure that the rating valuation system is fair and consistent and oversee the buying and disposal of Crown land.

Ministry for Primary Industries
Ministry for Primary Industries employs 1,300 people in roles advancing agriculture, fisheries, horticulture and forestry in New Zealand.

Ministry of Economic Development
Our staff of approximately 800 people operate over 39 offices throughout the country. The Ministry leads the production and co-ordination of policy advice related to economic, regional and industry development.

Ministry of Education

Ministry of Justice
The Ministry has approximately 2,400 staff working at 103 locations throughout New Zealand. The Ministry’s primary role is to provide advice to the Minister and Associate Ministers of Justice and government. This advice contributes to the strategic direction of government and changes to justice legislation. The Ministry also provides services on behalf of government, including services and facilities that support judicial decision-making processes and the process of bringing proceedings to courts, tribunals and authorities to be heard and decided.

Ministry of Social Development
The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is one of New Zealand’s largest government departments. We provide government with advice on strategic social policy, sectoral policy and social research and evaluation in the areas of income support, child, youth and family as well as community. We are also responsible for providing policy advice and support through the Offices for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Senior Citizens and Disability Issues.

New Zealand Army

New Zealand Customs Service
Customs has over 1,000 staff around New Zealand, covering the main air and sea ports. There are 15 locations open to the public with staff also based in Hamilton, Palmerston North, Queenstown and Timaru. Customs also has officers in Brussels, Bangkok and Sydney.

New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force comprises some 9,000 regular force and 2,500 territorial force Service men and women and 1,900 civilian staff across the armed services of Navy, Army and Air Force, operating as Three Services – One Force.

New Zealand Fire Service
The New Zealand Fire Service has: 348 fire districts (urban), 436 fire stations, 800 fire appliances (approx), 1680 career firefighter positions, 8000 urban volunteer firefighters, 3000 rural firefighting volunteers and part-time firefighters belong to rural fire authorities, 426 management and support positions, full and part-time and 77 communication centre staff positions.

New Zealand Police
New Zealand Police is the lead agency responsible for reducing crime and enhancing community safety. We operate from more than 400 community-based police stations and have 8,800 staff.

New Zealand Post Limited
The New Zealand Post Group’s main business activities include business and personal communications, physical goods distribution, banking and payments and document and information management.

NZ Bus
NZ Bus is the largest bus operator in New Zealand with services in Auckland, Wellington and Lower Hutt. NZ Bus operates 1000+ buses and 8 ferries in New Zealand. It employs 1900+ people. In Auckland, it is the main bus company, with Metrolink, North Star, GO WEST and Waka Pacific buses. In Wellington, GO Wellington has a fleet of 223 buses, including Wellington’s iconic trolley buses. NZ Bus is owned by Infratil Limited.

Opus International Consultants Ltd
Opus provides multi-disciplinary consulting services. From project conception, through design and all construction phases to completion, Opus has over 1500 staff in offices throughout New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and in project offices in a number of developing countries in the Asia/Pacific region.

The Order of St John
St John is a charitable organisation with a volunteer ethos. It operates independently of Government and business, and serves New Zealand communities. St John’s mission is to prevent and relieve sickness and injury, and to act to enhance the health and well-being of people of all races and creeds anywhere in New Zealand. It employs 1,300 people and has over 6,000 volunteers. St John provides ambulance services for approximately 85% of New Zealand’s population. Each year, 600 salaried and 2200 volunteer St John Ambulance Officers care for and save the lives of thousands of New Zealanders and visitors to the country.

Orica New Zealand Limited
Orica employs over 10,000 people in over 40 countries, turning science into the solutions that meet basic human needs.

Parliamentary Service
The Parliamentary Service provides administrative and support services to the House of Representatives and members of Parliament. The services include providing members with secretarial and personal assistance; members’ and ex-members’ travel; research and information services; catering services and looking after the buildings and the way they run. We are the largest employer in the parliamentary complex employing approximately 350 people on site and another 220 people (out of Parliament staff) in the regions.

Resene Paints Limited
Resene have over 50 company-owned ColorShops and 20 franchisee outlets around the country with around 500 staff in New Zealand. Resene manufactures its own coatings in plants in Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt. Wholly-owned subsidiaries of Resene Paints Limited are Resene Paints (Australia) Limited with operations in Sydney and the Gold Coast; Resene Paints (Fiji) Limited in Suva, Altex Coatings Limited in Tauranga and Resene Automotive and Performance Coatings Limited in Auckland.

Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF)

Royal New Zealand Navy

Royal New Zealand Plunket Society
Plunket is New Zealand’s leading provider of well child and family health. Parents of more than 90 percent of new babies access some aspect of Plunket’s well child health services. It provides a professionally educated workforce working hand-in-hand with volunteers throughout New Zealand. Plunket nurses are registered nurses with post-graduate education in child and family health promotion.

The Salvation Army
For New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga the territorial headquarters is located in Wellington New Zealand and the Territorial Commander is the leader responsible for all Salvation Army operations within those geographical boundaries.

Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand is a government department and is the country’s major source of official statistics. We have offices in Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington.

Steel & Tube Holdings Ltd
Steel & Tube Holdings Limited is New Zealand’s largest distributor of steel and allied products. It has 41 distribution and service centres throughout the country, and has approximately 800 employees.

Taylor Preston Limited
Taylor Preston Limited is a privately owned meat slaughterer, processing and export company situated in Ngaraunga Gorge near Wellington, New Zealand. Sheep, lamb, goat, beef and bobby veal are all processed at Taylor Preston with over 850 people now employed at the peak of the season.

Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Ltd
We provide a full range of Internet, data, voice, mobile and fixed line calling services for customers in Australia and New Zealand. We have around 5,000 employees in locations throughout New Zealand and 1,650 in Australia.

Tower Financial Advisory Services
Leading financial services company.

Victoria University of Wellington

Wellington City Council

YMCA
The New Zealand YMCA is a community organisation, based on Christian principles, which aims to enable individuals and families to develop physically, mentally and spiritually and enjoy a healthy quality of life. We have 2,400 in New Zealand.