We Go Beyond for A Safer World
Te Tūranga – The Role
We are looking for a Production Engineer to join our Manufacturing Engineering team in Christchurch. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and supporting production equipment and systems that underpin Tait's manufacturing operations.
You will play a key role in designing and improving production processes, commissioning new equipment, enhancing existing systems, and ensuring robust process controls are in place. Working closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Production, and Hardware Engineering teams, you will help ensure equipment operates safely, efficiently, and to specification, while supporting new product introductions and continuous improvement initiatives.
The duties of the role will include:
Ō pūkenga – About You
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Ngā painga – What's in it for you?
We are an employer committed to making a difference for families and communities while supporting people to build rewarding careers.
We live our Values of Commitment to Listen, Courage to Act, and Integrity to Deliver, and invest in our people to foster a high-performance culture.
Ko wai mātou – About Us
For more than 50 years, Tait Communications has been designing, delivering, and supporting critical communications networks for public safety, transportation, and utility customers around the world. Founded in Christchurch by Sir Angus Tait, we now support customers globally.
Our people value being part of a collaborative and innovative team that delivers technology with real-world impact. At Tait, you'll be supported to grow and develop while contributing to solutions that keep communities safe.
Ko koe pea tēnei? – Sound like your kind of role?
If you're ready to take the next step in your engineering career and want to work in a high-performing organization alongside talented people, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application with a CV and cover letter.
Applications will be assessed as they are received and will close on Wednesday 7th January 2026
Your CV will be held unless you contact us to request its removal.
For more information about Tait Communications and our solutions, visit www.taitcommunications.com
Our clients protect communities, power cities, move citizens, harness resources and save lives all over the world. We work with them to create, support and unify the critical communication solutions they depend on to do their jobs.
Digital wireless communication forms the central nervous system of everything we do. Around this resilient, robust core we design, develop, manufacture, test, deploy, support and manage innovative communication environments for organizations that have to put their total trust in the systems and people they work with.
We’ve worked hard to develop genuine insight into our clients’ worlds, and have pursued engineering, operational and services excellence for more than 40 years. This understanding, and our belief in championing open-standards technology, means we can give our clients the best possible choice and value to achieve the human outcomes they’re driven by.
We’re not simply aligned with our clients; we’re devoted to their cause.
Tait Communications’ sole dividend receiving shareholder is a charitable trust which shares the company’s operating profits across several donation and investment streams responsible for research and development, regional reinvestment and education. This rare model means clients can rely on Tait Communications to be an independent long-term player in the critical communications industry and to continue to play its role of ‘open-standards champion’.
