Fonterra Looking for Mechanical Fitter at Morrinsville, Waikato Full Time

Our Co-operative

Te Mātāpuna toa takitini

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective

We are a Co-operative created and owned by Aotearoa New Zealand dairy farmers. Our rich history is built on farming families working together to share the natural goodness of our dairy with the world.

Collaboration, innovation, and passion was the cornerstone of our creation and something we continue to value today through our commitment to care for the land, our animals, and every drop of milk. Our milk creates goodness through nutritious food with safe, quality ingredients that are loved here in New Zealand and around the world.

About the opportunity

Our Morrinsville site is based in the heart of the Waikato region. With two powder driers and two butter makers on site, we manufacture milk powders (whole, skim and organic), whole milk concentrate and a range of different butters (salted, unsalted, and organic). We also service our Waharoa Site, situated 26 kms from Morrinsville, where we produce a range of animal nutrition products for calves and lambs.

Joining us as a Maintenance Fitter you’ll be a valued member of our multi-disciplined maintenance team. With a key focus on Health and Safety and maintenance best practice, your core area of responsibility will be mechanical maintenance services across our manufacturing lines, providing support by maintaining all machinery in alignment with our asset care plans and strategies. In this fast-paced role, you’ll use your sound mechanical experience to navigate changing work priorities as well as implementing scheduled preventative maintenance to ensure our site performs at its peak each day.

This is a permanent Monday to Friday day shift role, with a monthly on-call requirement to cover a week’s after-hours.

About you

We are looking for a proactive and motivated fitter who is committed to continuous improvement and achieving excellence in everything you do. You’ll have the ability to take accountability and ownership of planned maintenance work as well as breakdown repairs and equipment performance analysis. We want to hear from you if you have:

• Mechanical Trade Certificate (L4 or higher)
• Mechanical aptitude and hands on experience ideally from within an FMCG / food manufacturing or relevant environment
• Exceptional fault finding and problem-solving skills with the ability to think outside of the square
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work as a team and independently
• Machining background with fabrication and welding skills would be an advantage.
• Computer literacy skills- knowledge of SAP is beneficial

Our Story

Whanaungatanga, our Co-operative spirit gives us all a common strength and purpose. Manaakitanga is how we care for all our people who are at the heart of what we do, we want our farmers, employees, customers and communities to thrive. Kaitiakitanga, ensures we take care of the land. We are committed to farming in a way that regenerates our farms and environment for future generations.

Whakaohooho constantly inspires ourselves and each other with great career development opportunities and benefits. We enable 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.

Sound good to you? Come join our whānau. You, me, Us Together Tᾱtou tᾱtou.