Careers

The best innovators don’t just understand technology, they understand people.

We Are the World’s Most Human-centred Appliance Brand

With a culture of open innovation, our people work collaboratively to find ideas that connect with our customers and respect our planet. Drawing on deep insights on the life lived around appliances, we create brands, products, services, and ecosystems that our customers and users truly value.

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.

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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.

Meet Sales Team

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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.

Meet CX Team

Fisher & Paykel engineer inspecting DCS Grill.

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.

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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.

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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

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.

Curious About A Career With Us?

Join a global team of talented and passionate people committed to providing exceptional experiences and redefining the life lived around appliances. View our current vacancies.

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What We Believe In

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Purpose & Values

We create moments of delight together in the heart of the home. Sustainably enhancing the quality of people’s lives. Now and for future generations.

Our Values

Curious
Innovative
Sustainably Minded
Trusted
Generous

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion – for our people, our customers, and our communities. As a human‐centred organisation, we welcome curiosity, diversity of thought and opinion from all our people to foster innovation.

We strive to create a sense of belonging and opportunities for all. Our CEO, Dan Witten‐Hannah, is a member of Champions for Change. Alongside a diverse group of leading CEOs and Chairs, Dan is committed to accelerating inclusive and diverse leadership.

Over recent years, we have reflected and worked as an organisation to both understand our people and create spaces, programmes and a culture where everyone can thrive. Through our enduring commitments and long-term initiatives, we have led systemic changes at Fisher & Paykel that will foster gender and cultural diversity and an inclusive leadership culture long into the future.

We have made great progress, including:

Established a global employee‐led Gender Inclusion and Cultural Diversity network, as well as a Māori and Pasifika network in New Zealand. These networks play a big part in organising internal cultural, religious and social events such as Māori, Samoan and Tongan language weeks and Matariki (Māori new year) in New Zealand, International Women's, Men's Days and Lunar New Year Globally – all to raise awareness of the diversity within our teams
Developed and implemented Thrive, career mentorship programme for women, focusing on supporting acceleration of our pipeline of female talent
Sponsored and attended events with Women in Engineering at Auckland and Christchurch universities
Updated key policies and practices, like flexible working and Whānau (Family) Leave, to enable greater participation and ensure all our people – regardless of gender, ethnicity, or background – have the opportunity to thrive at Fisher & Paykel with equitable career opportunities and progression paths
Launched an annual Global Diversity Survey to help us understand the diversity of our people and the progress we are making towards becoming a more diverse workforce
Implemented Unconscious Bias training for everyone to raise awareness and provide education around appropriate workplace behaviours
Introduced global language courses: Te Reo Māori courses in collaboration with Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, as well as Chinese (Mandarin)
Launched a new People Networks portal for all Fisher & Paykel employees who wish to contribute their voice and vision towards the future of our organization
Developed a new DEI playbook to support teams with implementing good DEI practices
Designed inclusive Leadership Development Programme for all our leaders globally

While we are proud of how far we have come as an organization, there is still more we want to achieve. Through global and local initiatives and ongoing ‘business-as-usual’ activity we aim to strengthen, embed, and sustain Diversity, Equity & Inclusion across all parts of our people's journey at Fisher & Paykel. Our continuous focus also remains on lifting DEI awareness, engagement, and communication globally.

You can view or download our Diversity Policy here.

Sustainability

We view sustainability as the movement of our time. Growing consciousness for our own health and the health of our planet is playing an increasing role in how we live, work and play.

Our commitment to sustainability is deeply embedded in our thinking. It 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.

In recent years, we’ve refined product design to reduce energy consumption by up to 50% and appointed Sustainability Business Partners who are leading work to:

Perform Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of key products
Formalise our Sustainably Minded organisational structure
Measure our greenhouse gas baseline across operations for 2019 and 2020
Reduce our operational and product waste

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Design Pillars

We focus on five key pillars, which inform the design of every Fisher & Paykel appliance.

Perfect Results
Designed to Fit
Beautiful to Use
Built to Last
Respect for the Planet

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About Fisher & Paykel

Fisher & Paykel's proud heritage is founded on a pioneering spirit and a culture of curiosity that has challenged conventional appliance design for decades.

Our People

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