Production Assistant

About Us:

The Zeal Pet Food group is a well-established and fast growing pet food manufacturer, distributor, and exporter. We have multiple companies and manufacturing facilities within New Zealand, a full range of products, and current markets in 20 countries around the world.

With a strong focus on using natural, sustainable ingredients, we are committed to providing the best possible care for our pets. Our team is passionate about delivering exceptional products and services to our customers around the globe.

The Role:

The Natural Pet Treat Company Limited is seeking a production assistant to provide essential support for our raw production teams, acting as a primary link between the production floor and management, and ensuring the smooth running of daily production requirements. The production assistant will be working closely with the floor manager and operations manager who will provide ongoing training and support for this hands-on role.

This role would be suited to someone who is highly organised, takes ownership of tasks, has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and isn't above getting their hands dirty. As a pet food manufacturer, our production environment involves working with raw meat, blood, knives, machinery, and cleaning chemicals.Experience in a food manufacturing environment is preferred as the production assistant will need to uphold strict food safety and hygiene standards and lead by example.

Key Responsibilities:

• Supporting the team to ensure the daily production plan is completed efficiently and to quality standards.

• Supporting the team to ensure all food safety and health and safety rules and regulations are upheld.

• Material handling including moving, storing, organising, and allocating materials and ingredients.

• Setting up tools, machinery, materials and ingredients required for production.

• Ensuring the production areas are well organised, clean, and tidy at all times.

• Stocktaking, inventory tracking, and recording daily consumption using WMS scanners.

• Forklift and pallet jack operation.

• Unloading trucks and managing inwards goods in a safe and logical manner.

• Reminding production teams of all relevant internal and external standards, procedures, and policies.

• Identifying issues and reporting all incidents or defects in a timely manner.

• Daily reporting of production outputs and team performance.

Key Requirements:

• Proven applied or theoretical knowledge of food safety compliance.

• Must be physically fit and able to lift up to 25kgs repeatedly.

• Existing entitlement to work in New Zealand.

Other Details:

• Work hours are 40 hours per week Monday-Friday.
• Suitable applicants will be screened, called in to interview, and if successful, will be provided with a full job description and contract to review.