27 February 2024

NDY is a global engineering consultancy. Its technical employees are largely building services, structural and civil engineers or consultants, as well as sustainability and commissioning consultants. NDY operates primarily in the construction industry, where just 9.2% of qualified engineers working in the sector identify as female[1]. This industry composition has for NDY, historically, been a broad reflection of the organisation’s employee composition. NDY continues to work hard to change its gender composition, as this is an important pathway to closing the gender pay gap.

In 2019 NDY implemented its first Gender Action Scorecard and since then has been working to close the gap. Over the last year NDY made a significant impact by reducing its gender pay gap in Australia by 6.5%.

Closing the gap has been the result of focused effort to:

  1. Achieve gender balance in candidate shortlists and subsequently at recruitment.
  2. Achieve gender balance in internal promotions – achieving a 50:50 gender split of promotions into management roles across global operations for the first time in 2022/2023 reporting period.
  3. Proactively reviewing and correcting anomalies with the pay gap across the entire business during the annual salary review process, by comparing like-for-like roles across the organisation.
  4. Leveraging relationships with universities to increase female representation through the early careers pipeline. NDY has had great success with this, demonstrated most recently with the 2023 cohort of interns being a 50:50 split between males and females.
  5. Imbedding strategies to retain women in engineering, resulting in a positive impact for both NDY and the engineering industry in future years. Noting that only 23.2% of engineering graduates are female, NDY has set an ambitious target of 50:50 representation for graduate intakes.

NDY continues to update and review their Gender Action Scorecard on an annual basis – with a goal to develop and implement strategies to improve gender balance and close the pay gap across NDY.

[1] Source: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/2023-11/engineering-profession-statistical-overview-fifteenth-edition.pdf