Fisher & Paykel has a long history of hiring engineering & science grads & interns, providing them with real-world experience and career development.
#20 of 22 in Mechanical Mechatronic Engineering
The grad program is very set in stone and it isn't really possible to move off the grad program early, no matter how well you're working or how much responsibility you have. This has been frustrating as some grads in my cohort have been given a lot of responsibility but no prospect of moving up in the company within the next 2 years. The functional leaders are generally good at providing feedback, and helping you towards a goal, however all of this has to be self driven. There is a visible path and framework to work through, it just takes a long time.
There are career-long promotion paths, with the path forking in three once you reach a senior level, with those being management, project management, and becoming a "Technical Leader" which is basically just a very experienced engineer.
As a graduate there is limited opportunity for performance based progression.
The Grad position is a fixed term role then you can promote up to advanced engineer by gaining enough experience/ demonstrating competency. You can then pivot into a people leader progression which is largely opportunity based or stay on the technical rout and become a technical leader/ Senior TL.