Product Development Engineer - Airvo

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Fisher & Paykel Healthcare is hiring a Product Development Engineer to join the Airvo New Platforms team in Auckland, full time and onsite. This role drives the evolution of Airvo 3 and future platform opportunities, owning projects from concept to market release, mentoring engineers, and leading medical design-controls documentation and technical direction. The ideal candidate is self driven, proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, and excels at cross functional collaboration, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, or Industrial Design; medical product development experience is preferred. To apply, tailor your CV to show end to end delivery, leadership, and design-controls experience, and demonstrate alignment with our care culture and inclusion, plus readiness to contribute on site in Auckland.

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About the opportunity

The Airvo New Platforms team is seeking an experienced and motivated engineer to join us in driving the continued evolution of our respiratory care therapies and technologies. 

This role is ideal for a person who enjoys taking ownership and being involved in projects from concept through to market release. 

You will play a key role in the continued evolution of the Airvo 3 platform while helping to explore and develop future platform opportunities that expand the reach and impact of our therapies. 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Driving the enhancement of the Airvo platform, while exploring future opportunities to grow our product range in the future 
• Excellent communicator and collaborator 
• Mentoring and supporting other engineers, helping to grow capability and foster a collaborative team culture
• Navigating and generating medical design-controls documentation  
• Technical Leadership by creating clarity and direction in areas of ambiguity and complexity. 

About you

• You are a self-driven person with a proven track record of delivering projects from concept to implementation.  

• You have a very high level of initiative 

• You are comfortable working through ambiguity, creating direction where needed, and mentoring others to achieve project objectives.  

• You build effective relationships across a range of stakeholders and enjoy working collaboratively within cross-functional teams to drive product development activities. 

• You hold a degree (or equivalent tertiary qualification) in Mechanical Engineering, Product Development, and Industrial Design 

• You ideally have medical product development experience or other similar experience working on high-quality products 

Working With Us

Care to join a supportive environment? Fisher & Paykel Healthcare foster an inclusive work environment founded on our culture of care and cooperation. Here you’ll have the trust and support to generate ideas, solve problems and do your best work.

• Employee share purchase scheme
• Bi-annual Profit share
• Generous Paid Parental Leave
• Life, Critical illness and Income Protection Insurance
• Discounted Health Insurance
• Active Social clubs & community groups
• In-house training programs from external providers
• Purchasing privileges for Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and Medela products
• School holiday programme subsidy
• Banking and Insurance discounts
• Free Parking
• Beautiful campus with green spaces
• Subsidised Café’s
• Annual Salary Review
• High rates of internal promotion

• Access to state-of-the-art facilities

About Us

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare is a world leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of medical devices, exporting to over 120 countries globally.

Our commitment to care unites us. Here, we’re driven to improve patient care and outcomes through inspired and world-leading healthcare solutions.

Care to join us? Apply today

We focus on nurturing a positive and inclusive culture based on trust and respect. In New Zealand, our employee-led communities, Spectra (rainbow), Manaaki (Māori) and Women in Engineering play an important role in this culture. We also have a commitment to creating a positive lasting impact on society, shown by our support of New Zealand organisations such as Diversity Works NZ, Pride Pledge and Global Women.

We are dedicated to designing our recruitment process with care and empathy to support all candidates, regardless of identity, background, and experiences. Should you require support or adjustments during our process, please let us know at [email protected]