Mechanical Design Engineer

About the Role

Mechanical Design Engineer

• Use your design skills to protect biodiversity in NZ
• Join a fun, successful fast-growing team
• Enjoy a role like no other with breadth, depth and time in nature

Take a stand for nature. Use your design skills to help ‘Rewild the world’. Broad role designing, prototyping, testing and improving performance and quality of our biodiversity saving products.

This is a very exciting broad, hands-on Mechanical Engineer role – so you’ll be the sort of person who loves a good problem to solve and is willing to get your hands dirty, build prototypes, test and learn, and be involved in all aspects of both R&D and design for manufacture.

You will:

• Support the Product Development team in the development of innovative new and existing products
• Work across the full range of product development from concept through to design for manufacture
• Get hands on in our workshop building prototypes, test and execute
• Play a key role in exciting new projects

You will enjoy a role like no other with variety, breadth and a lot of new learning as you collaborate with software designers, scientists, ecologists, the wider the Goodnature team, as well as getting out into the beautiful forests of Aotearoa to test your prototypes.

About the Business

Our vision is a natural environment in which species survive, thrive, and flourish, free from the threat of destruction of introduced pets. Goodnature is constantly working to “Rewild the world”. Goodnature develops products that make it easy for everyone to create sanctuaries in their backyard, however big. We are committed to providing pragmatic solutions to one of the most serious environmental problems – biodiversity decline. This is through the design and manufacture of automatic traps that humanely kill pest animals and then reset themselves. The traps are humane toxin-free and have been designed to save users time and effort.

Requirements

• a minimum of 3 years product development experience within an R&D focused company
• experience in design for manufacture
• ideally some experience working with pneumatic systems
• product ownership experience whether that be for part of, or across the full process from concept to production
• Experience in the design of injection moulded plastic parts
• A sound understanding of engineering tolerances and detailed design
• Sound CAD skills

If you would enjoy designing innovative products, can identify and solve some of the hairiest problems and are a team player ready to make a real difference in the world apply now.   Applications close as soon as the right candidate applies, so don’t miss out.

As well as a CV we’ll be looking for your portfolio showing what components and/or projects you have worked on and demonstrating your design and technical ability.

We’re pretty flexible around here, if you have some or all of the skills listed above, we’d still love to hear from you.  Or if you would like to have a chat before applying call me, Nicola from Enlighten Talent on 029 770 7936.

**Due to the current situation with our New Zealand borders we are only able to accept applications from candidates already in New Zealand (or Australia) and with eligible work rights for NZ**