Fisher & Paykel Appliances
2022/23 - Summer Interns (Fisher & Paykel Appliances) (Nov 2022)
Auckland, Dunedin
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- NZD 62,000 - 65,000 / Year
- 15-30 vacancies
- Apply by 31 May 2022
- Start date 13 Nov 2022 - 20 Nov 2022
Our CEO started here as a grad. So did our Head of Product Development. When we say career growth at Fisher & Paykel is tangible, we mean it.
Our Intern programme is a great way to start to apply your learning through your University break, gaining hands-on experience in real project teams, innovating and influencing real product design. Joining our Product Development business unit offers real-time learning from some of the best in industry, and we’re stoked to have you there – our interns and grads bring fresh perspective that means we learn from you, too.
Beyond loving the day-to-day work, interns and grads enjoy our collaborative working style and continuous learning experience. “This is a great industry to learn in. There are heaps of opportunities, and there’s a real openness here to new ways, ideas and options – different perspectives are valued; it’s collaborative and outcome oriented. Everyone works together, and the culture is one of really valuing sustainability – everybody is really passionate and driven to improve.”
This coming summer we have opportunities in Auckland (Refrigeration and Laundry) and Dunedin (Cooking and Dishwashing). Our Product Development world is jam-packed with meaningful work designed for a changing world. We have global scale engineering and manufacturing systems that create unique learning opportunities from design concept through to production. Combined with strong leadership, mentoring and diverse hands-on work, you’ll build a strong core skills base for wherever you take your career.
As these are intern roles, you should be in your penultimate year of study towards a relevant Undergraduate or Postgraduate Degree. We take pride in being able to provide opportunities to the next generation of talent by providing summer internships to individuals in the fields of:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronics Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
- Food Science
- Textile Science
- Engineering Science
- Chemical Science
- Environmental Engineering or Science
Joining us can lead to great things.
We’re big on sustainability, diversity, and innovation. We offer ing with leading technology and some of the best in-market. Our grads have gone on to flourish in bigger and better roles, travel the world and try their hand at new things.
Timing...
Summer Internships will be from mid-November 2022 to mid-February 2023.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Student Visa +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Product Development Engineer is my title but its more of a Software Development Engineering role by tasks. I work on fixing bugs and implementing new features for the current wall oven.
This is still generally positive, as in my previous role I took over responsibilities of a senior worker, giving me huge opportunities to pick up skills I previous did not have. However, in this current rotation I have been given far less.
I work on projects relating to new product development, understanding baseline performance of new products to be developed and how these align with our internal performance standards, and functionality on our existing products. This involves a combination of testing products using a variety of test types and functions, data analysis of these results, and meetings and discussions around planning of work to achieve these performance goals inline with the overall project goals and objectives. However, long term this doesn't align with the level of data analysis work I wanted to do in my role.
About the employer
Fisher & Paykel Appliances
4.0
1,000 - 50,000 employees
R&D and Manufacturing
Fisher & Paykel has a long history of hiring engineering & science grads & interns, providing them with real world experience and career development.
Pros and cons of working at Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Pros
The people are super kind, open, relaxed, and happy to help. The work culture and environment are super healthy and welcoming.
Managers are very accessible. Easy to walk up to a leader/manager and talk with them about anything. Lots of great mentors, especially within your own team who are more than happy to assist you.
Big push to be Carbon Net Zero by 2050. Lots of intern projects looking at new and innovative ways to reach this goal as well as ongoing projects.
My company has strong support around the flexibility of work hours, and particularly for testing when these hours can increase, is the best approach to take.
Lots of opportunities to move up in the company. Some people who have started as graduates have ended up as leaders and executives.
Cons
Some decisions and actions within the business can be quite slow due to the large size of the company and the procedures in place that usually require communication between multiple levels and areas of the company before clear decisions are made.
The fact that it is in Auckland, I am not a fan of the traffic. But that is not a big deal.
Formal training programmes are relatively general and corporate. On-the-job training depends on the department and team.
Decision-making can be tedious or take longer than it needs which can be frustrating.
The inability to allow a hybrid work environment for graduates.