Advanced Electrical Competitors

Creative people together transforming the world is our vision. It reflects our culture, our aspirations and our purpose - to make everyday better. We are diverse enough to bring a wide range of perspectives, skills and disciplines to every client and every challenge. We're also a team that understands the power of working together to bring resourceful, smart solutions from our collective experience and insights. And this holds true whether we’re working on a small library for a local community or a multi-site expansion programme for a global food and beverage giant. We have more than 4,000+ employees in 25 offices around the world. While our experience has been over 100 years in the making, it is the fresh talent we're nurturing, the innovative thinking we're developing and the connections that we're forging that get us most excited for the future.

Higgins is a dynamic and trusted New Zealand civil construction business. Our purpose is to make places better for generations to come. With a 1600-strong team, we have broad capabilities and resources to deliver a fully-integrated complement of civil construction and maintenance services across New Zealand and the Pacific. Higgins is part of the Fletcher Construction family. Since 1909, Fletcher Construction has planned, built, maintained, and managed significant national infrastructure in New Zealand and the South Pacific. Fletcher Construction is a division of the wider Fletcher Building group. Higgins was purchased by Fletcher Construction in 2016. We work alongside specialist ground engineering and civil construction company Brian Perry Civil (BPC) which was purchased in 1986. At Higgins, we bring to life the company value of ‘Better Together’ by working together with our colleagues at Fletcher Construction, BPC and the wider Fletcher Building group wherever possible for the benefit of our teams and our customers. Interested to join the Green Team? Visit our website for job opportunities.

Our business is in lines and pipes, the vital infrastructure that connects homes and businesses with the electricity and gas they need. Powerco is New Zealand’s largest electricity distributor in terms of network length (27,900km) and has the second largest number of electricity connections (336,000). The company also has the second largest gas distribution network (5815km) and the largest number of gas connections (106,000). It is one of only two dual-energy distributors in the country. We have around 430 (full-time equivalent) employees across branches in New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Wellington and Tauranga.