Ixom New Zealand
Graduate (Rolling Intake)
New Zealand
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- Apply by 6 Feb 2025
- Start date Ongoing
Your role
Key responsibilities are as follows:
- Formulate and test new or improved products through laboratory and pilot processes.
- Manage development projects from start to finish.
- Provide technical support to the commercial team.
- Represent technical aspects in procurement and customer meetings.
- Advise the sales team on innovation projects.
- Rotate through commercial and technical site-based roles to apply academic knowledge.
About you
Ideal candidates will have:
- An engineering degree in Chemical, Material, Mechanical, or Process Engineering.
- Degree-based work experience, preferably site-based.
- Customer-facing experience is advantageous.
- Flexibility, adaptability, and geographic mobility.
- Problem-solving skills and a broad skill set.
- A focus on technical and commercial applications of your degree.
- Practical skills and motivation to work independently.
- Resourcefulness, enthusiasm, and initiative.
- Full and permanent working rights in New Zealand and a full New Zealand driver’s license.
Compensation & benefits
Competitive salary with access to an Employee Assistance Program, recognition program, and various health and wellness benefits and discounts.
Training & development
Offers a comprehensive well-being program, education assistance, learning resources, and opportunities for secondment and promotion for personal and professional growth.
Career progression
Potential for advancement into diverse roles within the company, leveraging technical and commercial skills developed during the program.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- New Zealand Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
My days are always different depending on the current issues with the plant. I have a range of projects that I work on and a mix of office work, lab work and being hands on in the plant.
The amount of varied work is satisfying and the fact that graduates rotate through the business every year is cool because you get to learn about the business as a whole.
Very interesting, fast paced and stimulating work. Wide variety of work opportunities. (Both a positive and a negative, often work is out of scope but you get an opportunity to learn a new skill.)
About the employer
Ixom NZ
4.0
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
At Ixom, we strive to solve our customers’ challenges each and every day.
Pros and cons of working at Ixom NZ
Pros
Working with awesome people who are always willing to help each other out. Lots of development opportunities for graduates
Great work environment, helpful colleagues
Industry leader in the chemical industry. Very varied work, no two days are the same.
The people who work here. They are all very friendly and welcoming. Always open to answering your questions.
In under 6 months I have been involved in many different aspects of chemical manufacturing. This has been a steep learning curve but a great way to fast track the start of my career. I'm really looking forward to future rotations within the company as well to broaden my knowledge.
Opportunity to be involved in high level projects and communicate with employees of all levels.
Cons
Trans tasman teams can make communicating difficult and unclear processes or responsibilities for some people.
Too many meetings for managers which makes it hard to discuss with them about jobs and projects.
Barely any pay rise given to graduates. Graduates should be getting the biggest pay rises with each year of experience, as we start off with such low salaries.
A well-established company means that bad habits have been well-formed and people are hesitant to change despite them seeing the obvious positives of change.