UI Design Intern

Your Title: UI Design Intern

Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

Our Department: CTCT (Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies)

Application Window: 9 June 2025 - 29 June 2025

Recruitment Timeline: Interviewing in June/July, offer by early August

Internship Period: 17th November 2025 to 13th February 2026

Number of Positions: 1

Are you interested in an internship opportunity where you get visual design experience with a world-leading software product that goes with the world's leading heavy equipment brands, such as Caterpillar, Hitachi, and Doosan?

What You Will Do

As a UI Design Intern with the CTCT UX team, you will contribute to a small, busy team of user experience design and research professionals, likely assisting with a number of tasks across a fairly broad spectrum of visual design activities.

You will be working within the NZ arm of a global UX team with members in 4 locations across the planet, and you will get practical experience in a range of design areas:

• Assist the UX team in reducing overhead and clearing technical debt

• Work with graphic design products such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD and Figma

• Work with source control, i.e., Git or GitHub

• Assist the design-focused members of the team

• Streamline visual design processes

• Assist with graphic design/image creation for icons and illustrations

• Update technical diagrams to incorporate product changes, such as new hardware components.

What Skills & Experience You Should Bring

• Currently studying a diploma or bachelor’s in a UX/UI or design-related field

• Graphic design experience or study with Illustrator and Photoshop

• Figma or Adobe XD experience is helpful

• Great attention to detail and communication skills

• Some interest in user-centred design principles and practices

• Competent in basic graphic design software concepts.

Please note: Only applicants who are students and legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered.

About Your Location
Based at Trimble’s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, enjoy free parking, an onsite gym, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, are passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

About CTCT

CTCT (a joint venture between Trimble and Caterpillar) creates world-leading grade control and automation products for customers in the paving, construction, landfill, and mining industries. Our products make operators of heavy equipment more productive, whether they’re working on a landscaping job in someone’s backyard, levelling a section for a house, building a subdivision or highway, or operating an 800-tonne excavator on a mine site.

Central to our success is accurate positioning. We utilise the latest in technology from our in-house developed positioning technologies utilising IMU, GNSS, Laser, Optical and Sonic sensors, and some tech we can’t even talk about yet, to empower machine operators with clear and accurate guidance. In many cases we automate functions of the machine, so the operator can concentrate on other tasks.

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