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Job title: New Zealand manager, FMC Technologies

David Cree, 34, has worked all over the world - Indonesia, Spain,Turkey, Italy, North and South America, Great Britain and Europe. But it's Auckland where Cree, born in Bristol, England, to Irish parents, has put down roots since immigrating here six years ago. This week he started work with a company with the same international reach.

Cree is leading the small but financially-grunty New Zealand arm of FMC Technologies' freezing division. The local arm manufactures snap-freezing machines for chilled-food companies such as Talleys and McCains, but 80 per cent of its production is exported.

Just 12 people in FMC's North Shore base are responsible for its turnover of $7 million.

Cree was last employed with powder packing equipment manufacturer Colby Systems. While there he completed an part-time MBA specialising in business ethics while working full time - "for a while there I had no life!" - then sought a job offering greater autonomy. His ambitions at FMC, says Cree, are to "improve the manufacturing operation and then move overseas to a position higher up the chain".

Between graduating from Bristol University with a degree in electric and electronic engineering and arriving in New Zealand, where many of his relatives now live, Cree worked in engineering for international manufacturing giants GEC and Rockwell - the jobs that afforded him the chance to work in cities all over the world.

"I've pretty much worked on all the continents, except Antarctica," he quips.