Fisher & Paykel Appliances
2021/2022 Summer Internship (Nov 2021)
Auckland and Dunedin
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Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- $21.15 per hour
- 30 vacancies
- Apply by 30 Jul 2021
- Start date 14 Nov 2021
This year we're doing things a little differently. Rather than just looking at a CV, we'd like to get to know you. Our quiz is a space where you can update your details, share info about yourself, and get to know us through our values quiz. This is where you'll find out a bit more about the values that drive us and have an opportunity to share your own.
Instead of applying for the role on our careers site, we'd love for you to complete this quiz which will mean your applications for the internship are finalised!
Here at Fisher & Paykel Appliances, we design with people in mind and the lives lived around our products. We aim to create moments of delight together in the heart of the home, sustainably enhancing the quality of people's lives, now and for future generations. This purpose is the very heart of why we exist, it's our reason for being here. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.
We are driven by our values of being trusted, sustainably minded, innovative, generous, and curious. As a team, we take a collaborative approach and have a working environment where all ideas are heard, evaluated, and tested against our leading goal - to be the world's most human-centred appliance brand.
We are looking for naturally curious individuals who possess the initiative and desire to apply their learnings in a variety of projects related to our luxury premium Kitchen and Laundry Appliance ranges.
This year, we have several Summer Internship opportunities available within Fisher & Paykel Appliances (Auckland and Dunedin) and Fisher & Paykel Technologies (Auckland only). Summer Internships will be from mid-November 2021 to mid-February 2022.
As New Zealand companies, 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
Maurice Paykel Scholarships
We are proud to offer Maurice Paykel Scholarships to students who meet the qualifying criteria and complete a successful Summer Internship with us. The scholarship, named in honour of one of our founders, will provide a cash grant to selected students to financially assist them as they enter their final academic year.
To be eligible for a Maurice Paykel scholarship, you must be:
A citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand and enrolled full-time in your penultimate (second to last) year of study with a New Zealand University
Available to undertake a minimum of 8 weeks paid summer vacation employment for Fisher & Paykel Appliances during your 2021/22 University summer break
Our previous interns have worked on projects that are now in our products. You can see some of these products on the shop floor, you may even use some of them in your home.
Finalise your application now by completing this Quiz
Please check out our websites for more information.
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.