Fisher & Paykel Appliances
2022/23 - Engineering Interns (Fisher & Paykel Technologies) (Nov 2022)
Auckland
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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 12 Nov 2022 - 19 Nov 2022
Intern experiences are a great way to apply your learning through your University holidays, gaining hands-on experience in real project teams, innovating and influencing real product design. At Fisher & Paykel Technologies you will have your own project to work on, research and develop, and be supported by a fantastic bunch of people along the way. We like to make sure you feel a part of the whole team and are involved in as many things as possible; in fact, many of our previous interns have joined us as graduates.
This coming summer we have multiple opportunities in Auckland within our Mechanical, Mechatronics and Electronics teams. Diving into your own project, you will build a strong core skills base for wherever you take your study and career, with real-time learning from some of the best in industry. Interns bring fresh perspectives so we can learn from you, too.
As these are intern roles, you should be heading into your last year of study towards a relevant Undergraduate or Postgraduate Degree. We are excited that we are able provide opportunities to the future of engineering by providing summer internships to individuals in the fields of:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mechatronics Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
Summer Internships will be from mid-November 2022 to mid-February 2023.
Who Are We?
Fisher & Paykel Technologies operates under Fisher & Paykel Appliances, innovating electronic motor drive technologies, offering customers inventive product solutions that make a difference.
With more than 30 years of experience in motor design, control development, and system integration, this is an exciting time for Fisher & Paykel Technologies. We have chosen to become the global leaders in steering an exponentially accelerating world of change. In everything we do, we live and breathe our purpose to accelerate the future to improve people's lives.
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.