The ADAPT Program is Red Invest Capital Holdings' commitment to creating real, lasting employment pathways for Indigenous Australians into white-collar professional careers — in engineering, architecture, project management and business administration.
ADAPT was created because we believe the most powerful thing Red Invest Capital Holdings can do — beyond delivering exceptional projects — is to permanently change the career trajectory of Indigenous Australians.
Too many programs place Indigenous workers in entry-level roles and call it success. ADAPT is different. We are placing trainees in white-collar professional roles — civil and structural engineering, architectural drafting, project management, business administration — with full mentoring support, recognised qualifications and a genuine career pathway.
Trainees are embedded within Red Invest group companies and our Tier-1 client partners, working on live, nationally significant projects from day one. This is not a training simulation — it is real work, real responsibility and real career development.
By 2030 we are targeting 250+ Indigenous employees across the group. ADAPT is the engine of that growth.
We identify talented Indigenous candidates through our community networks, SWALSC connections and referral partnerships with client organisations. We look for people with potential, not just experience.
Trainees are placed within a Red Invest group company or embedded directly with a Tier-1 client partner — Arup, Jacobs or BG&E — working on live projects.
Every traineeship follows a structured learning pathway mapped to recognised qualifications. Trainees receive formal training alongside practical on-the-job experience.
Each trainee is paired with a senior professional within the group or client organisation who provides direct, ongoing mentoring — not supervision, but genuine career guidance.
ADAPT is not designed to end. Trainees who complete the program have a clear pathway to ongoing employment — within the Red Invest group, with client partners or in the broader industry with our full support.
Every traineeship is one more Indigenous professional contributing to their community's economic future. The long-term goal is a generation of Indigenous leaders across every sector of the Australian economy.
Our ADAPT trainees are embedded across our group companies and Tier 1 client partners, working in professional roles that include:
The ADAPT program is made possible by the commitment of our client partners — some of Australia's most significant engineering, infrastructure and retail organisations who provide real project placements, mentoring and a pathway to ongoing employment for our trainees.
Global engineering consultancy supporting ADAPT trainees on major Australian infrastructure projects including the North East Link and Fremantle Bridge.
Supporting ADAPT through embedded placements on Main Roads ETS and Tonkin Extension Tender Design projects.
Our in-house architecture division, where ADAPT trainees work on real, live projects for major national clients — including ongoing architectural work delivered for Woolworths.
Structural engineering specialist supporting ADAPT trainees on the Anketell Road project and providing mentoring from senior structural engineers.
ADAPT is not just a traineeship program — it is a statement about what Indigenous economic development actually means. It means white-collar jobs, not just blue-collar. It means qualifications, not just experience. It means career pathways, not just employment.
Every trainee who progresses through ADAPT is one more Indigenous professional contributing to their community's economic future. Multiplied across the Red Invest group's 250-person target, that is a generation of Indigenous leaders embedded across the Australian engineering, construction and design industries.
If you are an organisation committed to Indigenous economic development and want to provide project placements, mentoring or ongoing employment pathways for ADAPT trainees, we would love to hear from you.
Red Invest Capital Holdings acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and work, and pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise the deep connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have with Country, and we honour that connection through the work we do every day.