Silver Fern Farms Ltd Looking for Assistant Site Manager at Takapau, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand Full Time

About the Role
The Assistant Site Manager is a brand-new role for our Takapau site and will be responsible for leading our operational leadership team to ensure that production activities are aligned with the site strategy. This role provides inspirational leadership across people, production, health & safety, quality and compliance which develops capability in others and ensures the site meets or exceeds Silver Fern Farms standards.
Key responsibilities:
– Work with the Site Manager and Senior team to develop and implement site strategy.
– Managing site production and livestock planning.
– Work with direct reports to ensure a workforce and training plan is in place that aligns with the production plan.
– Oversight of production financials, ensuring controls are in place to effectively manage production costs.
– Actively support capability building and workforce performance. In conjunction with the PCM, Site Manager and other senior leaders, coach and mentor leadership staff whenever opportunities arise.
– Ensure all leadership staff understand and embrace all quality and compliance requirements.
– Support the Health & Safety Manager and Technical Manager to implement the H&S & Quality strategies on site .
About You
To be successful in this role, you will be an experienced people leader within the manufacturing industry with a quality-focused, outcome-driven approach. You will be driven by the success a high performing team can achieve and understand that they key to that success is collaborative engagement with all leaders and team members through regular, quality communication, and embedding a culture of Always Caring, Improving Tomorrow and being Unstoppable Together.
– Proven experience as a senior people leadership role, ideally within the manufacturing or primary industry.
– Able to lead, motivate and manage cross functional teams.
– Understand the competing demands of production, quality and safety; and collaborate to develop solutions that work for all parties.
– Excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills to influence through negotiation
– Display leadership qualities and proactively drive a strong culture that aligns with Silver Fern Farms values – Unstoppable Together, Improving Tomorrow and Always Caring
Why work at Silver Fern Farms?
Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & 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.
For you, we offer heavily discounted staff meat sales at our onsite Butchers’ Block, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6 month anniversary required), BOOST employee retail discount scheme, subsidized health insurance, and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling. There’s the added bonus of free on-site parking and branded employee clothing also.
How to Apply
Click on ‘Apply’ below to submit your application. We assess applications as they are received so don’t delay.