Fisher & Paykel Appliances
2023 Engineering Graduates - Fisher & Paykel Technologies (Jan 2023)
Auckland
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- NZD 62,000 - 65,000 / Year
- Salary plus KiwiSaver or FPA Super Scheme plus other benefits
- 5-10 vacancies
- Apply by 31 May 2022
- Start date 15 Jan 2023
Instead, we do grad experiences. We believe every grad is different and has their own unique path to take.
Our CEO started here as a grad. So did our CFO. Even our Head of Laundry. When we say we grow your career at Fisher & Paykel Technologies, we mean it.
If you believe you’ve done enough learning in lecture theatres this is your opportunity to put it all into action. At Fisher & Paykel Technologies, we believe in learning by doing. We don’t have traditional career paths or grad programs. Our previous grads have worked with industry leaders on cutting edge technology. You’ll still get the relevant training needed to help with your role, but the rest is a free-for-all. Diving into day-to-day BAU work and critical project work, you will build a strong core skills base for wherever you take your career, with real-time learning from some of the best in industry. Grads bring fresh perspectives so we can learn from you, too.
We MVx (minimum viable anything). We have a new initiative ‘Grad X’: a new approach to the development of our grad experience. We want to make sure that you have an amazing time with Fisher & Paykel Technologies, and Grad X helps us achieve that. As it’s in its early days, you also get the opportunity to pave the way for yourself and future grads and have your ideas included in business-wide initiatives.
This is a graduate role, so you’ll have completed your studies towards a relevant Undergraduate or Postgraduate Degree (Mechanical Engineering, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering) or will have graduated within the last two years.
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.