Fisher & Paykel Appliances Looking for Industrial Designer at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

Fisher & Paykel is one of New Zealand’s best-known brands, a global company with a strong heritage. Our New Zealand origins, curious nature and passion to develop products designed around people are core elements that make us unique.

Driven by our brand values of being trusted, sustainably minded, innovative, generous and curious, as a team we take a collaborative approach where all ideas are heard and are united in our leading goal to be the world’s most human-centred, #1 premium appliance brand.

This opportunity is best suited to a competent intermediate-senior level creative-thinking industrial design specialist who can design solutions with genuine customer value in mind, while aligning with our brands positioning. Tasked with being the voice for our customer, you will be responsible for providing a continuous stream of innovative, useful, and beautiful products that support and enhance the competitiveness of our brand.

About The Role

Reporting to the Head of Industrial Design, you will:

• Be part of a team that is instrumental in the delivery of a customer insight led product development vision.
• Have the opportunity to work on a range of current and future products.
• Be responsible for achieving projects within a team of Industrial Designers, a key part of this achievement will involve collaborating across our team of product development engineers and being the voice of design and brand for our product design decisions.

This is where you come in…

• You’ll have experience working within a Product Development environment.
• Be able to demonstrate aesthetic maturity, are self-driven and able to work to tight schedules.
• Have sound understanding of mechanics, kinematics, manufacturing processes and materials.
• Be confident at communicating both visually and verbally.
• Experience working collaboratively with other specialists to develop new designs, working with both new and existing manufacturing processes.
• Some experience in model-making and prototyping, creating quick prototypes to prove concepts, as well as more refined visual models is highly desirable.
• Proficiency using design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, parametric CAD modelling such as PTC Creo and rendering packages such as Key-shot (or similar).
• A degree in a relevant field such as Industrial Design or Product Design is essential.

What We Offer

We can give you the rare opportunity to move into a large, complex global organisation headquartered in NZ, where you will gain wide exposure across the business. This role has diverse and exciting challenges and the chance to continually learn and develop.

Along with a competitive salary, flexible working, ongoing development and excellent growth and progression opportunities, as a valued member of our team you’ll enjoy generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products, life & disability insurance, discounted medical cover, access to our superannuation scheme, access to our leading Whanau/Family leave offering, our subsidised staff café, and free car parking when you are on-site. All this, coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most Trusted Brands… year after year.

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This is a great time to join us on our journey.

Apply online today including your CV, a cover letter and as part of your application we ask that you attach a design portfolio – or website link (PDF’s no larger than 10-15 megs) – to showcase your skill set, thought process and insights… your story.

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we’re turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we’re passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It’s this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal – to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

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.