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Start your electronics engineering design career with the Top Graduate Employer for R&D/Manufacturing for the 2nd year running!
What’s on offer for 2025…
We have 5 electronics (software) positions available to join our East Tamaki product design teams starting 20 January 2025, for naturally curious, driven graduates with the initiative and desire to apply learning and skills to the design of luxury premium products.
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 the next steps in your career.
In our Design Centres we offer stimulating work 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 Auckland, our teams are designing the next generation of Laundry and Refrigeration products. You probably already know some of our products – wouldn’t you love to be part of the team enhancing them even more as we continue to work on our goals of sustainability and premium customer experience on the global stage?
Do you meet the brief?
We are looking for a diverse group of applicants who demonstrate:
For these specific teams you will need to be on target to complete your studies this year towards an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (or Computer Science), and you are excited about ongoing technological innovation and science in laundry and refrigeration technology, systems and structures.
What’s on offer…
So much!
We also offer a competitive salary, generous Kiwisaver or a Student Loan payback scheme, discounted medical insurance, life and disability insurance, and multiple corporate discounts with banks and retailers. Our East Tamaki design centre has a subsidised onsite café, free onsite parking, lovely outdoor relaxation areas, active clubs to join, along with the latest technology, labs and workshops.
Our CEO started here as a grad. So did our Executive of Product Development and many other senior leaders. When we say career growth at Fisher & Paykel is tangible, we really mean it. Joining our Graduate programme you will work hands-on in project teams, innovating and influencing real product design. Deep-diving into Product Development offers real-time learning from some of the best in industry, and we’re stoked to have you there – grads bring fresh perspective that means we learn from you, too. Some of our best ideas have come from grads, and some of their best career stories have come from us. Come join us!
Get your Academic Transcript and CV ready and be ready to inspire us with your answers to some initial questions.
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.
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.
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.
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.