Saw Doctor

**About the role**

As a Saw Doctor your role is a part of the Lumber team, based at out Whirinaki site, 15 minutes north of Napier. Your role is critical to the division, ensuring optimum machine performance and high-quality finished product. Through your duties you will guarantee reliability and availability of saws in our sawmill. You are responsible for ensuring that all saws and knives are sharpened, repaired, and finished to a high quality. You will also participate in performing preventative maintenance tasks to minimise saw failures and unplanned saw changes. Along with your daily duties there is the opportunity for you to work on continuous improvement opportunities to maximise saw utilisation. You will be apart of one of our three Saw Doctor teams but also work alongside mechanical and electrical trades to problem solve machine centre sawing issues.

This is a shift position, working 4 x 10.5-hour shifts per week, days and nights (including some Saturdays) over a 3-week rotating roster.

**We offer**
- Secure employment
- A supportive learning and development environment
- Reward and recognition
- Wellbeing programme
- Free life insurance for you and discounted life insurance for your partner
- Subsidised medical insurance for you and your family
- Discounted petrol
- Free flu injections
- Retail discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual firewood allocation
- Relocation costs
- Family friendly events

**About us**

We add value to our natural resources. Our business is renewables, and we have been a part of New Zealand’s bio-based economy for 50 years. We grow, process, and deliver quality radiata products to national and international markets. Sustainability and safety are the foundations of our business. We have a team of over 450 full time staff and 400 contractors. We care for our people, the environment and our community.

**About you**

You have a NZQA Level 4 Trade Certificate in Saw doctoring or equivalent experience.

You also have the following skills:

- a positive attitude
- ability to work in a team but also with mínimal supervision
- initiative and a proactive can-do attitude.
- a strong health and safety focus
- strong mechanical aptitude
- a background in a trade environment
- high attention to detail
- an ability to respond quickly to changes in priorities or urgent requirements

If you are looking for your next exciting career opportunity, then we would love to hear from you.