The Opportunity
For over 50 years, our client has built an enviable global reputation with its core products and solutions, along with its ability to keep these core products at the forefront of their market.
To ensure the company keeps ahead of its competition, a separate R&D team is focused on turning raw, practical concepts from its clients and their sales team into highly repeatable, commercially successful new products for their market. The R&D Team work alongside electrical, automation, and production teams to deliver turn-key integrated product solutions that exceed customer expectations.
Due to ongoing growth, we are looking for an agile, commercially focused Mechanical Design Engineer to join his Christchurch-based engineering and product development R&D team to help bridge the gap between initial customer inspiration and physical reality.
The Role
In this role, you provide technical leadership in new product development and the commercial design of complex machinery and mechatronic systems. This role turns new product opportunities into safe, robust, manufacturable, and commercially viable designs that meet customer needs, budgets, standards, and timelines. You will prepare accurate documentation and support manufacturing quality. You will work independently and across multidisciplinary teams, while mentoring engineers and sharing expertise to strengthen engineering capability across the organisation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead new product development from design concept through to commercially ready machinery
- Translate customer and market requirements into safe, manufacturable, and commercially viable designs
- Complete and check calculations, models, drawings, and engineering documentation
- Manage personal workloads and deliver design work to agreed priorities and timelines
- Monitor manufacture, resolve design issues, and incorporate workshop feedback
- Support quality control, equipment safety, compliance, and factory acceptance checks
- Provide technical information and support to project, sales, marketing, and writing teams
- Mentor engineers, share expertise, and contribute to continuous improvement
About You
You will bring several of the following attributes and experience:
- Proven experience developing and commercialising new machinery products in an industrial engineering environment
- Advanced mechanical design knowledge, including electronics applied to machinery or high value equipment
- Advanced CAD solid-modelling skills and proficiency with relevant engineering tools
- Strong design-for-manufacture experience covering cost, quality, reliability, and assembly
- Sound engineering judgement and the ability to act decisively when required
- A professional qualification in mechanical engineering
Sound like you? For a confidential discussion, please contact Richard Foster on 03 379 7002 or 021 85 45 45. Alternatively, to submit an application press the APPLY button and follow the steps, include your CV as an attached Microsoft Word document.
NOTE: FOSTERRA is exclusively managing this role for our client.