Senior Process Technologist

1 week ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Fonterra Full time

General Information:

  • Date Published 17Feb2023
  • Advertising Ends 03Mar2023
  • Country
  • New Zealand
  • Location
  • Canterbury
  • Role Type
  • Manufacturing
  • Work Type
  • Permanent
  • ID# 3430
    Position Description:

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


We are looking for a Senior Process Technologist to join our Mozzarella Centre of Excellence team at our Clandeboye site in South Canterbury, where you will put your technical knowledge and project management expertise to best use across a wide range of activities including problem solving, process optimisation and new product development.


You will be joining our passionate and highly engaged team who work together to provide solutions and influence business decisions to ensure our plants work efficiently as possible.

Reporting to the Mozzarella Centre of Excellence Team Lead, you will:

  • Work alongside our production teams to help optimize plant performance and assist with the resolution of production issues that occur during plant operation.
  • Liaise and partner with others across the Co-Op to deliver new products to our customers, providing a customer focused attitude to deliver value and world class solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, run product trials and deliver technical transformation projects to optimise process capacity, capability and efficiency.
  • You will also help build capability across operations and technical teams through both formal instruction and coaching as well as informal guidance and advice.
This is a unique opportunity within our innovative Mozzarella Plant that will give you exposure to cutting-edge technologies and new product development activities, giving you lots of opportunities to grow and develop your career

About you


We are looking for a driven and inquisitive individual who has a strong technical mindset and passion for process improvement.

We want to hear from you if you have:

  • Proven technical experience
- ideally with food, dairy or manufacturing

  • Strong analytical and technical problemsolving skills
  • Experience in process improvement and change management including optimising capacity and efficiency
  • Hands on project management experience, preferably from concept through to implementation
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills.
A tertiary qualification within science or food/dairy technology is preferred but not essential. Additionally, experience in New Product Development and knowledge of cheese/dairy protein processes and products would be highly 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.

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