There's growing concern about a potential decline in engineering roles - with renewed calls for the Government to step in and intervene.

Engineering New Zealand says work for engineers has dried up and they fear losing skilled professionals to overseas opportunities.

CEO Richard Templer says Kiwi firms have had to make engineers redundant as bigger projects have ground to a halt - and New Zealand runs a real risk of having a sector-wide brain drain.

"The Government has ear-marked a whole lot of money for infrastructure. What hasn't happened is that it hasn't hit procurement, it hasn't been contracted out, it hasn't started delivery. So we've called on the Government to, in their quarterly plan, include infrastructure delivery." 

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There's growing concern about a potential decline in engineering roles - with renewed calls for the Government to step in and intervene.
Engineering New Zealand says work for engineers has dried up and they fear losing skilled professionals to overseas opportunities.
CEO Richard Templer says Kiwi firms have had to make engineers redundant as bigger projects have ground to a halt - and New Zealand runs a real risk of having a sector-wide brain drain.
"The Government has ear-marked a whole lot of money for infrastructure. What hasn't happened is that it hasn't hit procurement, it hasn't been contracted out, it hasn't started delivery. So we've called on the Government to, in their quarterly plan, include infrastructure delivery."&nbsp;
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Richard Templer: Engineering NZ CEO urges the Government to release infrastructure funds amid job shortage

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