Configuration and provisioning of networking gear; remote technical troubleshooting & incident resolution; development of network configuration & automation software.
No two days are the same! Being on-farm, there is a practical as well as a theory aspect which I loved. Jobs would range from carrying out practical tests on-farm or on customer farms for both your and other team members' projects. Meetings would be conducted on a daily basis between software/firmware engineers in order to develop an addition to the collar. Trips to Auckland would be taken which allows face to face meetings, relationship building and a good team environment. Responsibilities outside of our designated projects ranged from practical tractor work cleaning up around the offices, to conducting and running farm team days to bridge the gap between Auckland staff and the farm.
As I am an intern in the production team, my work involves managing inventory, sourcing components for the collars, solving production issues, and communicating with the factory. I also work on writing assembly and testing documentation for the factory to follow. A big project I worked on during my summer internship in 2021/22 was writing software to forecast the average cost of the collar over the coming year. The work is quite varied from day to day, and there's something new to work on nearly everyday.
Each day looks different, with testing, validation and jig design just some of the many things I was involved with. Always heaps on and exciting to get involved with a wide range of tasks