Celebrating 10 Years of Caliber Design at SouthMach 2025

Caliber Design is turning 10—and we’re marking the occasion at SouthMach 2025 with a celebration that reflects who we are: practical, people-focused, and project-driven.

Visit us at Booth 135 for a slice of birthday cake and go in the draw to win a $1,000 Christchurch Adventure Park voucher. While you’re there, we’d love to talk about how we can help you scale your mechanical engineering capacity, flexibly and efficiently.

We’re not a consultancy. We’re not a contractor. Caliber is something different—a secondment-based engineering firm with a growing team of over 60 mechanical engineers working with businesses across New Zealand. We embed engineers directly into your team, on-site or remote, to provide the horsepower you need to get projects across the line.

Whether you’re navigating a peak workload, filling a short-term skills gap, or moving a major capital project forward, our engineers are there when and where you need them. From machine design and product development to FEA and project engineering, our team has deep, practical experience across a wide range of industries—from automation and manufacturing to food processing, aerospace, and advanced materials handling.

What Makes Caliber Unique?

What sets Caliber apart isn’t just our model—it’s our people. We carefully select engineers who bring the right mix of technical ability, communication skills, adaptability, and professionalism. We back them with systems, mentors, and processes that ensure they deliver value quickly. And we stay involved—checking in regularly, monitoring progress, and making sure the secondment is working for everyone.

When you engage a Caliber engineer, you don’t just get that one person—you tap into the entire Caliber network. That’s 350+ years of collective experience, shared knowledge, and access to a powerful library of proven templates and systems.

As one client put it, “Caliber engineers don’t just fill a role—they take ownership, solve problems, and bring fresh thinking to the table.”

A Decade of Enabling Innovation

Over the past 10 years, we’ve helped some of New Zealand’s most innovative businesses move their ideas from concept to reality.

From supporting HamiltonJet in developing state-of-the-art marine propulsion systems, to helping Fabrum advance hydrogen technology … and working with Wyma on world-leading post-harvest agricultural equipment and Daifuku on complex airport luggage handling systems, our engineers are helping scale production, bridge resourcing gaps, and build better, faster, and smarter.

We’ve also played a quiet but critical role in keeping the industry connected. Our model means we’re uniquely positioned to see what’s happening across the country—in big OEMs, niche R&D firms, and busy production facilities.

We share that insight. We connect people. And increasingly, we’re being asked to help clients not just fill roles, but solve broader engineering and delivery challenges.

Where to from here?

We’re proud of what we’ve built—and excited about what’s next. We’ll continue to grow our mechanical engineering capability, and we’re actively exploring how we can support clients in related disciplines.

We’re also investing heavily in learning and development, ensuring that every Caliber engineer gains exposure to world-class projects, expands their skillset, and contributes meaningfully to the New Zealand industry. It’s good for them. It’s good for you. And it’s good for engineering in Aotearoa.

Let’s talk at SouthMach

If you’ve worked with us before, come say hi and have some cake. If you haven’t yet, stop by and find out why over 240 New Zealand companies have trusted us with their engineering resource needs.

📍 Booth 135
🎂 Birthday cake + prize draw
🎟️ Win a $1,000 Christchurch Adventure Park voucher

Here’s to the next 10 years.