Product Development Engineer - Safety & Compliance

The Role

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.

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-centered appliance brand.

What’s this role about exactly?

We are looking for an experienced electronics or mechanical engineer with significant and relevant technical expertise, with an interest in continuing their career in safety & compliance engineering.  As a senior addition to a small team, you will support design of our products as to safety and compliance for our markets, thus enhancing the competitiveness of our brand.  We apply the philosophies and tools of Learning First (Lean) Development into our everyday work practices to ensure we are applying the right tension to the product development process.

You will contribute and deliver against functional plans, able to plan your work to achieve timely and effective outcomes. You will test and analyse a variety of concepts to create new knowledge, understand limits and develop trade-off curves in the format that is used for design decisions, and can be referred to and used by others.  You will use knowledge gained from testing and research to ensure safety and compliance in all design components and subsystems of our end products.

This role requires you to proactively collaborate with people from other teams to identify and develop excellent outcomes.

Who are we looking for… 

This is a specialist team and not a generalist role.  You must have relevant work experience of at least 5 years working as an engineer with recent experience in safety or compliance (including relevant regulations). We are looking for an engineer with the passion to bring their technical knowledge, skills and personal attributes to help us achieve our business objectives and delight our customers.

As well as that specific expertise, all our PD engineers demonstrate these skills:

• Knowledge Planning & Acquiring
• Business View & Understanding
• Effective Decision Making
• Problem Solving
• Understanding of Engineering principles, systems and processes relevant.

Our environment is dynamic, creative, and commercial.  We hold ourselves to high standards, accordingly these skills are also essential:

• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Customer Centric Focus
• Tenacity and drive for results
• Communicating & influencing.

What we offer… 

Our workplace and leadership is designed to allow people to thrive and work at their best. We provide a culture in which all our engineers can constantly develop, working alongside a team of talented and skilled engineers. We offer true work/life balance, competitive remuneration, generous Kiwisaver scheme and buying privileges. 

Our Dunedin site is awesome, based centrally with cutting edge labs, workshops and supporting technology.  We have a lot of fun, enjoy a balanced work/life culture, plus we’re doing great work in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.  If you are considering a change of location, you should know Dunedin is a great mid-sized city with all the amenities of a bigger town but without the traffic!  Find out more here: Live & Work - Ōtepoti | Dunedin New Zealand official website (dunedinnz.com)

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for apply online today.  We are interviewing as we identify suitable candidates.              

Please note unfortunately we can only consider applicants with the legal right to work in NZ for this position.

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.