Fisher & Paykel - Healthcare

Main business activity

Our purpose is to increase shareholder value by profitably designing, developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling healthcare devices worldwide, which improve patient care and outcomes.

World leading

Some industries are in the business to make the world a better place. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare is one of them, with a wide and growing range of highly innovative healthcare products encompassing from infant warmers to respiratory humidifiers to breathing circuits. We are a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of a range of innovative healthcare devices which incorporate unique features to improve patient care.

Life changing

In creating a better world through your contribution to the next generation of advanced healthcare technology, you’ll be carving out a bright and rewarding future for yourself. If you count knowing what you do improves people’s lives among those rewards, then you can expect the ultimate prize – the satisfaction that comes from knowing you’ve really made a difference.

Career making

To succeed at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, you need some special qualities. You’ll need a curious, inquiring mind and the confidence to challenge conventional wisdom and accepted thinking. You’ll also need a commitment to overcoming obstacles and to keep going when the going gets tough.

At Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, you can expect your career to progress at a rate that reflects your abilities, expertise and ambitions.

Our teams

Working as a part of a multi disciplinary team, you will be able to draw on the expertise, vision and creativity of a range of specialist skills, so whatever your area of interest and expertise might be, you won’t stop learning when you join our team.

Engineering, Technology and Science

Always looking for the next best thing? Well so are we! As a member of one of our technical or engineering teams, you will be helping to design, develop and manufacture our range of medical devices and you’ll be faced with challenges everyday. To help you achieve your goals, you’ll be able to draw on the expertise, vision and creativity of a range of people including:

• Electrical
• Electronic Mechanical
• Production
• Mechatronics
• Operations
• Automation
• Plastics
• Materials Engineers.

As these roles involve liaising with a wide range of people, it is essential that you have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a team. You will hold a Btech, BE or NZCE (Mechanical) or equivalent and have an interest in manufacturing automation, design and product development.

Your enthusiastic, can-do attitude will shine through as you work closely with and influence people across all parts of the business.

So, if you’re the next best thing for Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, we’d love to hear from you!

Employee benefits

From your first day at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, we start looking after you, with a wide range of rewards and benefits. We make every employee feel like a valued and integral part of our company’s success, by offering things like a profit sharing bonus and an employee share purchase scheme. Your day-to-day work experience is also important to us so that is why we have provided staff with a truly unique work environment, offering modern, purpose-built facilities in airy, light, park-like surroundings. Some of our more unusual facilities for your enjoyment include a subsidised café, walking circuit, a lake, petanque area and a mountain bike track.

Locations

Our head office, research and development and manufacturing facilities are currently based in Auckland, New Zealand. We have off shore sales and support operations in Australia, the USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Turkey and the Middle East. We are also planning to expand our manufacturing capability offshore.

Number of employees

Employing nearly 2100 people worldwide, with approximately 1700 based in New Zealand.

Employment opportunities

If you think you have what it takes to be part of our team then we would like to hear from you. We are particularly interested in people from the following fields:

Research and Development – electronics/electrical, mechanical, mechatronics, plastics, automation and control, manufacturing, physiology, physics, software engineering and programming, clinical research, hardware engineering

Operations – production planning/scheduling, purchasing, production management

Quality and Regulatory Affairs – quality systems, regulatory compliance, supplier quality, document control, etc.