Fisher & Paykel Appliances
Mechanical Engineering Graduate (Jan 2024)
Dunedin
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- NZD 64,000 - 65,000 / Year
- + KiwiSaver or FPA Super Scheme or Student Loan Quickpay and other benefits
- 1-2 vacancies
- Apply by 29 Oct 2023
- Start date 21 Jan 2024
An opportunity to start your career with the best!
We have just one opportunity left for an upcoming graduate in mechanical engineering commencing mid-January 2024. Are you naturally curious and driven with the initiative and desire to apply learning and skills to the design of luxury premium products? Read on...
To fit the bill, you’ll wow us with…
- Great communication skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Curiosity and initiative with a drive to ongoing development
- An ability to contribute positively and professionally in a team environment.
You’ll be a mechanical engineer about to graduate and ideally have a special interest in premium cooking product development, and be able to integrate into our team of experienced engineers delivering structural and cooling systems for ovens. An affinity for fluid dynamics, strength of materials and engineering statistics would be highly beneficial.
About us
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.
Our Design Centres provide stimulating and positive learning environments. Beyond loving the day-to-day work, 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.”
In Dunedin, our teams design the next generation of Cooking and Dishwashing products. We also have electronics teams designing and improving the software and hardware technology that will further enhance our customer experience and working collaboratively will give you great exposure to the end-to-end design process.
What’s on offer...
So much. We’ve been named the Top Graduate Employer for R&D/Manufacturing in 2023! Why?
Our culture is one in which you can constantly develop, working alongside a team of talented and skilled engineers. At Fisher & Paykel Appliances you will enjoy great leadership and have real opportunities for technical growth and development within a global organisation. The opportunity to learn from some of the best in-market Engineers from across the world, a collaborative team-based culture, a challenging and supportive work environment, ongoing career and personal learning and development, and the opportunity to work with leading technology.
We also offer a competitive salary, superannuation scheme (over and above KiwiSaver) or a Student Loan payback scheme, discounted medical insurance, life and disability insurance, and multiple corporate discounts with banks and retailers.
Our Dunedin site is based in a shopping centre, with plenty of food options nearby, and many of our people enjoy an active commute on bikes or walking/running.
If you would like to be part of our team developing the world's next generation of appliances and technology, apply now. We need your Academic Transcript) not because we focus on grades but because we are curious about specific subjects you’ve chosen) and CV. We cannot assess applications without a Transcript, and you must have the legal right to work in NZ.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics
- 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.