Airways

Working at Airways, you are at the heart of aviation. First and foremost, we enable air traffic management – the processes that keep travellers safe in the skies. The smart technologies
we employ bring a real difference to our airline and airport customers.

Airways New Zealand provides air traffic control and air navigation services across New Zealand’s 30 million square kilometres of airspace, managing key aviation infrastructure and more than one million air traffic movements per year.

 

Renowned globally for leading innovation and development in the aviation sector, Airways also delivers air navigation and air traffic management consultancy and training services in over 65 countries. Our organisation is at the forefront of developing procedures and technology to reduce aviation’s environmental footprint.

 

Airways is a vibrant place for new graduates to work. We seek out people with the right combination of skills and passion – attributes that are critical to safety and our success.

 

We typically recruit graduates with experience or interest in air traffic control and technical engineering, although we snap up the best new or recent grads across a wide range of professions. This includes entry-level roles for graduates with degrees in business, marketing, IT and finance.

 

Specifically, our Technical Trainee programme offers full-time paid practical, theoretical and on-the-job training, interesting work, mentoring, and a long-term career path. This opens doors to potential promotion and international travel with Airways.

 

We recruit annually for our trainees. Our trainees go on to manage our safety critical systems, and represent Airways to our growing international customer base as Field Technicians and Technical Coordinators. We ideally look to engage those that already hold, or are in their final year of a Bachelor of Engineering specialising in electronics, ideally with strands in radio and data communications.

 

We also have an annual intake for our Air Traffic Control training. The Airways training centre offers small classes in a supportive environment. Your first six months is intensive, using our state of the art simulators to apply the theory you’ll be learning. Then you’ll relocate for on-the-job training in one of our regional towers.

 

Full training takes around 12 months, with the second six months of training supported by Airways. Upon successful completion, you are engaged as an Airways Air Traffic Controller with a commencing salary package of approximately $90,000 per annum (base plus benefits). We ideally look for students with aviation, technology, or general business degrees.