Mechanical Design Engineer

Company Description

TOMRA Food designs and manufactures sensor-based sorting machines and integrated post-harvest solutions, transforming global food production, to maximize food safety and minimize food loss, by making sure Every Resource Counts.

Today, TOMRA is leading the resource revolution to transform how the planet’s resources are obtained, used and reused to enable a world without waste. TOMRA’s other business divisions comprise of TOMRA Recycling, TOMRA Mining and TOMRA Collection.

TOMRA has approximately 100,000 installations in over 80 markets worldwide and had total revenues of ~10.9 billion NOK in 2021. The Group employs ~4,600 globally and is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company headquarters are in Asker, Norway.

TOMRA Food operates centers of excellence, regional offices and manufacturing locations within the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

**Job Description**:
**About the role**:
TOMRA Food’s Auckland based mechanical engineering team works on exciting multi-disciplinary projects that involve developing new products in Packhouse automation, inspection systems, sorting machines and other fruit handling peripherals. We have close collaboration with engineering colleagues and the wider business in our Hamilton and Auckland offices.

There are many opportunities to develop and grow through challenging new projects, mentoring, and courses. The Development department releases new products that are competitive on a global scale, involving a varied array of manufacturing processes. We develop products all the way from the core scientific research teams, right the way through to fully released products that customers enjoy using.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is looking for growth and development in a highly dynamic, fast-paced environment.

**This role will see you**:

- Refining the design of existing products for performance, manufacturing, safety and cost effectiveness
- Produce estimates for resources and time required to deliver projects
- Producing engineering drawings and maintaining bill of materials for new and existing products
- Occasional site visits domestically and internationally to support and validate both new and existing products
- Producing complex mechanical designs to meet the project requirements and international regulations
- Deriving design requirements through identifying and communicating with project stakeholders
- Mentoring and supporting junior engineers

**Qualifications**:
**About you**:
You’re an enthusiastic, creative problem solver who is keen to grow into the mechanical design engineering role.

**You will also have**:

- A tertiary degree in mechanical engineering, or similar
- Several years’ experience with machine design, experience with automation and compliance preferred
- Strong user of CAD software (preferably SolidWorks)
- Out of the box thinking
- Attention to detail as well as the bigger picture
- A willingness to learn and grow
- The ability to travel domestically and internationally where necessary
- The ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment
- Practical ability in the workshop

Additional Information
**Why work for us**:
You will have long-term career opportunities, with a globally renowned company and the following:

- Birthday leave - have a day off on us
- Flexible working environment
- Onsite car parking
- We love innovation, so we offer a collaborative environment where idea sharing and thinking outside the box is encouraged
- You may also know us as the award-winning kiwi success story COMPAC or BBC, we strive for greatness and that is reflected from our history and into our future as TOMRA
- Global career opportunities with a strong record for promoting internally
- Professional training and development: We are passionate about people and seeing them succeed.
- We care for the planet and want to make a difference for the future
- Kiwisaver employer contribution paid on top of base salary