Maintenance Electrician
Silver Fern Farms
Listing Description
Description
Our Takapau site in Central Hawke's Bay is Silver Fern Farms largest dedicated lamb processing site, employing up to 950 people at the peak of the season.
Our Engineering team are in exciting phase as we look to grow the capability of our team and implement a refreshed structure and processes that will enable us to continue to improve the service we provide while improving reliability at the site.
We are looking for motivated and skilled Maintenance Electricians to join our engineering team who are crucial to keep our production running in a challenging, dynamic food production environment. You will be joining a team on the up and play a key role in implementing our vision for the Takapau site. In return, we offer competitive pay rates, OT allowances and great training/development opportunities.
Our site operates both day and evening shifts Monday to Friday as well as occasional overtime on weekends.
Roster: Two Weeks on dayshift followed by two weeks on nightshift Hours of Work: 5.30am to 2.30pm 2.30pm to 12am occasional overtime and weekend work is required
The successful applicant will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Full NZ EWRB Electrical registration and proven Industrial experience
- PLC, VSD - LV \ HV experience would be advantageous.
- Excellent general knowledge of a working production environment would be beneficial.
- Ability to analyse problems and implement effective solutions on a timely basis- we love people who think outside the square!
- Be self-motivated and capable of working both independently and within a smaller team
- Computer literacy and automation experience would be a distinct advantage- but we are willing to teach this too.
- Comfortable being on a roster-based shift pattern in a red meat processing environment out of our largest site in NZ in the beautiful central Hawkes Bay.
Previous experience in FMCG or transferrable production engineering environments would be an advantage, but the key is the ability to work as part of a team and utilise your problem-solving skills to provide top level service to the processing plant. Preferred candidates will have good interpersonal skills and an attitude for getting stuck in to get the job done as well as thinking outside of the box.
If you are interested in using your electrical skills on a large industrial food processing site, and like the idea of working for one of New Zealand's largest food exporters, we look forward to hearing from you.
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Silver Fern Farms
Silver Fern Farms is New Zealand’s market leader in quality red meat production with customers in over 60 countries around the world.
We are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means and how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill and expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment.
Why choose a future with Silver Fern Farms?
A career at Silver Fern Farms can take you almost anywhere you want to go. As a Global Food Marketing business, we offer a huge range of opportunities across Agri-Business, Operations, Food Manufacturing, Sales and Marketing, Technology, Food Quality and the Environment, plus heaps more in the wider business.
Silver Fern Farms offers you the opportunity to shape and develop your career, empowering you to step up and help shape the future of food.
Are you ready to reach your full potential with a global food marketing business? Come create goodness with us...
