Group Leader, Stores

4 days ago

Timaru, New Zealand Silver Fern Farms Full time

Job ID:

- 3073
- |
- Expertise:

- Production Managers and Supervisors
- |
- Location:

- Timaru
- |
- Employment Type:

- Permanent
- |
- 28/11/2025, 00:00AM

**Te Tūranga/**About the Role**

Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership career? We’re looking for a **Group Leader** to oversee operations in our Dry Stores department at Pareora. This is a pivotal role where you’ll manage your team while interacting with multiple departments across the site, ensuring effective and efficient production stores purchasing and consumption control, including receipting, storing and issuing and associated inventory control

You’ll balance operational performance with people development—coaching, mentoring, and supporting your team to succeed. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for continuous improvement, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

** Te Mahi/Key Responsibilities**
- Lead and develop your team to achieve departmental goals and maintain compliance
- Plan weekly and daily work requirements in collaboration with the various departments across the site.
- Manage stores in line with weekly production requirements and ensure consumption and inventory control.
- Build an uncompromising safety culture and champion continuous improvement
- Ensure food safety and quality and compliance standards are met across all operations

** Ōu Pūkenga/**About You**

We’re looking for someone with a strong background in warehousing operations who can help us maintain excellence. Experience with dry stores practices in the food processing industry is a bonus, but not essential. If you also have knowledge of export meat processing operations, that’s a big plus

We’re looking for:

- Minimum 2 years’ leadership experience in dry stores in a manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance
- Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and building team relationships
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written to successfully achieve outcomes
- Comfortable with MS Office suite and inventory management systems (such as Navision)
- Solutions-focused problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset and sound analytical skills

Te Ahurea /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 through our on-site Butcher's Block, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6-month anniversary required), and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling. There’s the added bonus of free on-site parking and a SFF branded clothing allowance also.

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