About the role
Reporting to the Production Manager you will manage the day-to-day production across our Boning operation and assist the Slaughter management team to ensure an efficient, safe and compliant process from Slaughter to Boning. Liaising with relevant people you’ll oversee scheduling and guide the team to manage production targets to ensure top quality products. In the fast-paced environment, you need to plan and prioritize to meet targets and solve problems.

You’ll understand and manage the balance between production throughput, food safety compliance, and the health, safety and wellbeing of our people. You will be a proven leader able to motivate and inspire people. Your hands-on approach will see you on the production floor throughout each day, supporting and influencing staff and leading by example.

You will need:

• Solid experience in a Supervisory food production role
• Proven experience leading a team to succeed and enhancing a cohesive continuous improvement culture
• To analyse and critically assess where efficiency can be improved with regards to productivity, yield, process, cost and quality; and take action
• IT literacy, particularly excel and ERP systems
• To be forward thinking, a proven planner with excellent time management 
• Attention to detail – know our people, product quality and production expectations and compliance
• Excellent communication skills
• To perform well under pressure

What you can expect:

• Be part of a successful family business classed as an essential business.
• A hard working, dedicated team who find time to enjoy a good laugh
• A competitive salary package and additional benefits (e.g health insurance and staff sales of delicious pork and Freshpork NZ Heartland products)