Do you want job satisfaction where you can help develop new products and watch it grow from in the workshop to the end user? Be part of exciting new projects and work in collaboration with other divisions to achieve outstanding results. This role is your way to make an impact and join us on or growth phase and be part of something truly rewarding.  

Who are TOMRA Food?

TOMRA Food designs and manufactures sensor-based sorting machines and integrated post-harvest solutions transforming global food production to maximize food safety and minimize food loss, by making sure Every Resource Counts.

Today, TOMRA is leading the resource revolution to transform how the planet’s resources are obtained, used and reused to enable a world without waste. The company’s other business divisions comprise TOMRA Recycling, TOMRA Mining and TOMRA Collection.

TOMRA has approximately 100,000 installations in over 80 markets worldwide and had total revenues of ~10.9 billion NOK in 2021. The Group employs ~4,600 globally and is publicly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The company headquarters are in Asker, Norway.

TOMRA Food operates centers of excellence, regional offices and manufacturing locations within the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australasia.

Follow TOMRA Food on Facebook @TOMRA.Food, Twitter @TOMRAFood, Instagram @TOMRAFood and on LinkedIn at TOMRA Food.

For further information about TOMRA, visit www.tomra.com.

Your role as a Senior Software Developer will include:

• Building software that allows our customers to leverage the full value of our award winning fruit grading and sorting platforms. The software sits very much at the forefront of our exciting IIoT/Industry 4.0 initiative.
• Work collaboratively within a very experienced set of software teams, and working closely with our teams of research, mechanical, electronic, and automation engineers, who are busy prototyping new machines, not to mention collaborating with our product management team.
• Effectively communicate and resolution management
• Being part of a global company also means you get to collaborate with our colleagues in Europe, Asia and America.
• Being proactive, forward thinking and curious about how things work
• Understand customers real problems so that you're building software that makes a real difference to them.
• Open communication with customers and colleagues to foresee growth opportunities

 Some of the exciting work you will be part of include:

• Work with real-time performance high throughput grading machine, right now the biggest application is to grade ~800 fruit per second.
• AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology has been applied by the surface defect detection, greatly accepted by the market and customers, the name is smart-map
• Deep Learning technology, has been applied to do blue berry sorting
• Work with Insight, the cloud based platform to collect all data globally
• Cut-edge spectrum based technology to sort the internal properties (e.g. brix) and detect defects (e.g. Internal browning), without destruct the fruit.

Experience and skills you can bring to TOMRA Food:

• A positive approach, agility to achieve customer focused results along with enthusiasm and curiosity tops our list of requirements!
• Appropriate software development qualification
• 4+ years' experience with C# or similar
• 2+ years' web development experience (.NET, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)
• Understanding of Solutions Architecture

Desired but not essential;

• Familiar with virtualised environments and containerisation
• Web and cloud development experience
• Interest in Machine Learning and AI
• Experience with C++

What can TOMRA Food offer you?

• Award winning, innovative kiwi success story
• Competitive remuneration package
• Birthday leave – have a day off on us
• Fantastic career opportunities locally and globally
• Flexible work arrangements (Hybrid working)
• Weekly Friday social and other events through the year
• We invest in you with professional training and development
• You can be based in either Auckland or Hamilton

TOMRA Food is growing, do you want to be part of that journey? Share your passion for innovation and care for the planet by applying today.