Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the Role
The purpose of this role within New Zealand Food Safety Verification Services is to provide a range of food safety, animal welfare and biosecurity verification and certification services.
This role provides an opportunity for a registered veterinarian to carry out quality assurance verification activities in accordance with current legislation and overseas market access requirements. This role also includes the inspection of animals and documentation to support imports and exports. You will be based in Christchurch and will travel to businesses in the Canterbury region to assess their operating processes against regulatory requirements.
This role will provide you with a lot of variety and your day-to-day job will vary. You will be responsible for your own work schedule with flexibility.
Typically, in this role you would:
- Carry out quality assurance audits, and inspections of food and export industry business operations
- Certify food business compliance with overseas market access requirements
- Write quality assurance audit reports
- Inspect live animals for diseases
- Organise your workload autonomously in collaboration with the team
In addition, the nature of this work offers the following benefits:
- The opportunity to develop positive relationships with a wide range of different local businesses
- Work-life balance (work hours typically within normal business hours Monday-Friday)
- Good growth opportunities
- Working both independently but also within a supportive team
- We are looking for someone who would enjoy getting exposure to a range of different businesses and is looking for work-life balance.
If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
Ngā Pūkenga me ngā Wheako - Skills and Experience
To be successful in this role you will need:
- Be a New Zealand registered Veterinarian (Or be able to obtain registration with VCNZ)
- Have experience communicating effectively with a range of different stakeholders
- Have experience working in an environment where organisational skills are essential
- Have verbal and written skills, and analytical reasoning skills
- Demonstrate integrity and trust, ethics and values, resilience, adaptability, and openness
- Have computer literacy – can operate standard and customised software to an acceptable standard e.g., word-processing, excel, internet, email
- It is advantageous if you have knowledge of basic food technology, biosecurity, HACCP/Quality Assurance systems
We are looking for someone who is adaptable and can thrive in a complex and sometimes ambiguous environment. The ideal person will be able to think creatively, prioritise work, and is excited to learn new skills.
Mō tō mātou rōpū - About our team
New Zealand Food Safety – Verification Services' (VS) core purpose is to deliver independent, cost effective and high-quality verification, certification, and inspection programmes that meet all regulatory requirements. Our people deliver a world-class, efficient, and cost-effective service to a broad range of industries and sectors . Facilitating not only food safety, but biosecurity and market access for animals and animal product exports.
These include:
- Verification and certification services to at least 2000 processing companies. This not only includes food primary and secondary food producers but also storage and transport.
- Verifying containment and transitional facilities to ensure they are meeting the standards around unwanted and new organisms.
- Inspection and certification of live animals for import and export.
- The export meat sector accounts for 80% of Verification Service's activities.
- VS plays a key role in the Primary Sector industry and the Circuit team delivers verification, certification, and inspection services nationally. This role is focused Christchurch and the Canterbury regions. This role may also include some infrequent travel nationally.
Whakamātau Whakapōauau me te Waipiro - Drug and Alcohol Screening
Please note, given this position is safety sensitive the preferred applicant/s for the position will be required to undergo a drug and alcohol pre-employment screening test. Further information on this process can be found on our careers site under the application process, on pre-employment checks.
Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whanau and hāpori.
We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua a great place to work for all.
In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “Apply” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.
Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday, 9 February.
If you have any questions about the role, please email shane.gooch@mpi.govt.nz
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