We Go Beyond for a Safer World
Te Tūranga - The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Production Fitter to join our Manufacturing Workshop team in Christchurch. In this hands-on role, you'll play a key part in keeping our production equipment operating safely, reliably, and efficiently, while also contributing to continuous improvement and new product introduction activities.
You'll be a trusted technical expert within Manufacturing, providing problem-solving capability, high-quality toolmaking, and practical engineering advice across the wider Tait business. Just as importantly, you'll guide and mentor others, helping build capability within the Workshop team.
As parts of our factory operate 24/7, this role may include participation in the Manufacturing Standby/Call-out Roster once fully trained, with additional allowances provided.
The duties of the role will include:
You'll also be accountable for the quality of your own work, proactively identifying and addressing quality issues and opportunities for improvement.
Ō pūkenga - About You
To be successful in this role, you'll bring a relevant mechanical or maintenance engineering qualification and strong practical experience in a manufacturing or workshop environment.
As well as:
Ideally, you'll also have:
Ngā painga - What's in it for you?
At Tait, we're committed to making a difference for families and communities while supporting our people to build rewarding careers. Our Values -Commitment to Listen, Courage to Act, and Integrity to Deliver, underpin how we work together.
We offer:
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 are proud to be part of a creative, purpose-driven organisation that delivers technology making a real difference to the communities we serve - and we support each other to learn, grow, and succeed.
Ko koe pea tēnei? - Sound like your kind of role?
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and join a high-performing organisation alongside talented people who take pride in delivering great results, we'd love to hear from you.
Please submit your CV and cover letter Applications will be assessed as they are received and will close 12th January 2026
For more information about Tait, our products, and the solutions we provide, 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’.
