Our Co-operative
Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini
We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Since our beginnings, collaboration, innovation, and passion have enabled us to share the goodness of our dairy with the world. We're committed to caring for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk, producing nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients loved here in New Zealand and around the world.
As part of the Fonterra Co-op, you'll be solving for a better future alongside a team connected by solid values as we strive to be a leader in dairy sustainability, dairy innovation and science, with a focus on New Zealand milk.
When you join Fonterra, you'll open yourself to a career of opportunities where you can grow with us by developing your skills, sharing your knowledge, and exploring diverse career paths that ignite your passions.
About us | Whakapā mai
Our Pahiatua and Longburn sites sit in the heart of the Manatwatu-Whanganui region. With beautiful gardens, cafes and boutique shopping along with 200km of fishable waters, our sites offer the perfect blend of work-life balance.
Our Pahiatua site specialises in producing whole milk powder that is exported to markets around the world. During peak milking season, Pahiatua processes up to 4 million litres of milk every day.
Our Longburn site specialises in supplying other Fonterra sites with raw milk, reverse osmosis retentate.
About the opportunity | Te whai waahi
Joining us on a 12 month fixed term contract and reporting to our Site Operations Manager, this is a great opportunity to start a career pathway with a dairy industry leader.
As an integral member of both our Pahiatua and Longburn Site Lead team you will provide support and assistance to our Site Leadership team, enabling them to focus on their core activities.
In this fast-paced and varied role, you will be involved in:
- Administration and PA support for the Site Operations Manager including attending and contributing to leadership meetings and taking minutes
- Induction of contractors and visitors to Site.
- Project coordination and delivery of a variety of projects in the people, wellbeing, and continuous improvement space.
- Hosting customers & internal visits to site.
- Site communication Champion- co-ordinating newsletters, organizing events and general Site communications
- Management of applicable vendor contracts and relationships.
As Longburn and Pahiatua are two of our manufacturing sites, this is a unique opportunity to gain further exposure to strategy, people engagement, planning, and health and safety.
With a strong learning and development culture, this is an exceptional opportunity to take your career to the next level. You’ll gain experience working for a high performing and innovative organisation and have the scope and scale to make this role your own.
We’re an engaged, family focused with a strong community focus and we’d love you to join us!
About you | Moe koe
We are looking for an engaging and approachable professional who has a passion for continuous improvement and supporting others. As a team player and the ‘go-to’ person in our team, you will display a high degree of integrity and professionalism while bringing a sense of energy and fun to the role.
To be successful in this role ideally you will have:
- Office and event administration and diary management experience
- Exceptional customer services and relationship management skills
- Strong initiative with outstanding organisational and multi-tasking skills
- Tech savvy computer skills, particularly within the MS Office suite, and the ability to pick up new systems quickly
- A self starter with excellent communication skills
- Outstanding organisational and multi-tasking skills.
Our story | To Tatou Korero
Being part of Fonterra means being part of a unique history, realising the potential of dairy for generations to come, and solving for a better future together.
- Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit, guides a common strength and purpose.
- Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people at the heart of what we do.
- Kaitiakitanga ensures we care for the land, farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.
- Whakaohooho inspires us all with excellent career development opportunities, benefits, flexibility, and balance to suit everyone's lifestyles and choices.
Our Co-operative is a place where everyone can be themselves, feel empowered to do their best, and are empowered to create goodness for generations.
Sound good to you? Come join our whānau and let’s solve for better, together. You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.
