PD Engineer - Safety & Compliance

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd; Auckland; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Development pathways

Progression opportunities

Discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier

Life & disability insurance

Medical cover

Whānau/Family leave policy

On-site café

Parking on-site

Job summary

Fisher & Paykel Appliances Ltd in Auckland seeks a Product Safety and Compliance Engineer to lead front-end regulatory activities across global markets. You will coordinate testing with internal and external laboratories and interpret safety standards to enable market access.

Collaborating with product development, suppliers, and regulators, you will ensure timely compliance and help shape safety processes within a globally renowned brand.

Qualifications

• Degree in electrical, mechanical, mechatronics or science.
• Minimum three years’ experience in product safety and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of electrical and gas testing and regulatory requirements advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate testing with internal and external laboratories for appliances.
• Lead internal testing when required.
• Liaise with product development, third-party manufacturers and suppliers, regulators and test authorities.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Electrical testing

Documentation

Project coordination

Education

Electrical/Mechanical/Mechatronics or science degree

Tools

Testing laboratories

Job description

The Role

Fisher & Paykel is an iconic New Zealand brand, a global company with a strong local heritage. Our origins inspire our culture of curiosity and passion to develop solutions designed around people - these are some of the core elements that make us unique. 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-centred appliance brand.

The Opportunity

As a Product Safety and Compliance Engineer, you will be influential at the frontend of the product development process along with the rest of the PD team ensuring our products are inherently safe and comply with the required safety standards and other regulatory requirements, and therefore enabling them to be sold within a variety of global markets. Developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of appliance regulatory requirements will be key, along with coordinating testing with internal and external test laboratories for a range of appliances. At times you will be expected to lead the internal testing by doing this testing yourself. In addition, you'll also find yourself liaising, training, and supporting product development and third-party manufacturers and suppliers, as well as being the conduit between these groups and the regulatory authorities and test laboratories.

This is where you come in You are the kind of person who inherently understands that safety is critical and you know the importance of complying with regulatory safety requirements. You get personal satisfaction from knowing that what you do adds value and ensures our products can be sold in the market within agreed timeframes. You love nothing more than seeing projects and tasks through to the end without compromising either your own personal standards or those we must meet. Put simply, you get things done and you get them done right. You the person who dots the is and crosses the ts and ensuring process is followed and documentation is completed. It is essential that you demonstrate natural organisation, attention to detail and can find a way forward - you don't have a 'too hard basket'. Your written and verbal communication skills are second to none as are your excellent reading comprehension skills. You'll understand what the "important work" is and know how to facilitate this to achieve results. You will have an unrivalled ability to interpret a variety of safety and other regulatory requirements. Knowledge of electrical and gas testing of products or environmental compliance would be an advantage. Ideally, you’ll have a degree in either electrical, mechanical engineering, mechatronics or science, and you have been honing your skills for a minimum of three years.

What we offer

We offer the opportunity to join a large, complex global organisation that is proudly headquartered in New Zealand; giving you broad exposure across an internationally operating business without leaving home.

• competitive salary
• real development pathways
• meaningful progression opportunities
• generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products
• life and disability insurance
• subsidised medical cover
• access to our industry-leading Whānau/Family leave policy
• a subsidised on-site café
• complimentary parking when you're in the office

All of this, supported by exceptional leadership and the credibility of a world-class heritage brand - one that continues to be recognised as one of New Zealand's most Trusted Brands, year after year.

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.

Fisher & Paykel has been designing products since 1934 and has grown into a global company with products sold in more than 50 countries around the world.

The best innovators don’t just understand technology, they understand people. We design technology that enriches and improves people’s lives. By challenging conventional appliance design these world-first technologies have changed the way we live forever. Learn more about Fisher & Paykel