Early Careers
- Graduates
- Interns
- Apprentices
Start your career with us and gain hands-on experience with real-life projects. Work alongside industry-leading professionals, mentors and peers to help create products that deliver to genuine human needs. Working at Fisher & Paykel is an opportunity to learn on the job, be curious, take ownership and build your skills, while doing meaningful work.
Graduates
Fisher & Paykel has a history of providing graduates with long and rewarding careers that have taken them across the globe and into senior executive roles. We trust and empower our graduates to solve real world problems, and offer them the opportunity to see their work transform into design solutions in our products. At the core of this programme, we provide them with support and guidance to help reach the best outcomes for our customers.
In both 2023 and 2024 we have been recognised as the top graduate employer in Aotearoa New Zealand's Research & Development sector. Our graduate experience ensures they can build a strong core skill base as a foundation for their career, with real-time learning from some of the best minds in the industry. As a company driven by human-centred design, we value the fresh perspectives offered by our graduates, giving us the opportunity to learn and evolve too.
We bring graduates into our teams in Product Development (mechanical, mechatronics, electronics, food science, consumer sciences) and IT/Digital (computer science).
Applications for Graduates to start in 2026 will open in May/June 2025.
Interns
We take pride in being able to offer opportunities to the next generation of talent by providing summer internships each year. Paid internship positions are available in our Engineering and Science fields at both Fisher & Paykel Appliances and Fisher & Paykel Technologies.
We are proud to offer Maurice Paykel Scholarships to a select few on completion of their internship programme. Recipients will receive a cash grant to financially assist with their final academic year.
Internships – Summer (November – February)
We are pleased to be able to offer opportunities for summer internships in both Auckland and Dunedin within Product Development. Positions will be available in our engineering teams.
Applications for Summer 2025/2026 will open in June/July 2025.
Apprentices
Our Appliance Service Technicians are the face of Fisher & Paykel, providing successful troubleshooting advice to our customers. A paid apprenticeship programme takes approximately two years to complete and results in a full Appliance Service Technician Ticket.
Apprentices enjoy mentoring from Technicians who are recognised as specialists in their field. Daily training is delivered in a supportive team environment, with a strong health and safety focus, top-of-the-line tools and trade, and unrivalled career development and growth opportunities.
What We Do
Product Design
- Product Development
- Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
- Research & Development
The best innovators don't just understand technology, they also understand people.
We design with people in mind and the lives lived around our products. Our commitment to sustainability and ongoing research and development is embedded in all aspects of our work. Faced with changing global conditions, we take our responsibility to reduce our impact seriously.
As a team, we are always experimenting to find new and better ways of doing things, and our culture is one in which our engineers can constantly develop. We foster a working environment where all ideas are heard, evaluated, and tested against our design principles, purpose and values. To be trusted by our users, our customers and each other is of utmost importance to us.
Meet Product Design Team
Sales
- Sales
- Account Management
- Business Development
Our approach to effective collaboration is what sets us apart.
We listen to the experiences of our customers and each other to draw real insights and develop solutions that our customers value. Founded in a culture of curiosity, creativity and resourcefulness, we have the courage to challenge each other and conventional thinking to re-imagine the future. We are adaptable to new conditions, delivering products and services that exceed expectations.
Our people are creators, facilitators and planners, commercially perceptive and discerning about design. We continue to evolve and build trust in order to improve our value proposition.
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Customer Experience
- Customer Service
- Customer Relationships
- Sales & Service
To be trusted by our users, our customers and each other is important to us.
We are deeply committed to following through on our intentions, consistently and over time. Our success begins with empowering our people to put users first, and by striving to create zero distance between us – be that in our contact centre, sales support team, or out on the road delivering, installing, and servicing appliances.
Our agility and action orientation enables us to quickly deliver solutions that customers really value.
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Manufacturing
- Warehousing
- Production
- Distribution & Logistics
A commitment to sustainability is deeply embedded in our thinking.
This commitment informs the way we work, the products we make, the packaging they come in, and the way they are delivered. In a rapidly changing world, our responsibility to reduce our impact is one we take seriously and embrace.
Our manufacturing teams live these values every day, consistently challenging how things have been done previously in order to improve our value proposition.
Corporate Support
- Marketing & Communications
- Brand & Content
- Finance & HR
As a Fisher & Paykel team we look out for the needs of our people.
From Marketing, Brand and Content to Finance, IT, HR, and everything in between, our support teams are the oil that keep our engine humming. Our human-centred focus is at the heart of who we are and what we create. And our approach to effective collaboration sets us apart. Drawing on insights from our customers, and the experience and expertise of our own people, we devise solutions that add value to people's daily lives. Within a wider culture of curiosity, creativity and resourcefulness, we constantly challenge ourselves, each other and conventional thinking to re-imagine the future.
IT, Digital, Connected Ecosystems
- Graphic & UX
- Design & Development
- E-Commerce, Technology & Data
We built our business and our reputation on creating beautiful products that enhance peoples lives in the heart of the home. As the pace of technology change accelerates, we are deeply fascinated by what the Internet of Things and technology can do to create moments of delight.
Being curious and innovative is core to who we are and what our people value. Now more than ever, understanding our customers and wanting to reimagine the future will set us apart. Our people collaborate to create and explore, keeping the customer at the heart of anything we do.
Meet IT, Digital & Connected Ecosystems Team