Electrician

General Information

Position Description

Our Co-operative 

Fonterra’s strength is in the collective | Te Mātāpuna toa takitini 

Here at Fonterra, we are committed to growing our people. We value you and your career progression and are excited that you are taking this next step in your career journey with us. We are proud to offer a wide variety of roles across the Co-op, ensuring that no matter what business unit or stage of life you're in, there's a good chance we've got something to suit.

About us | Whakapā mai  

Our Kauri site was established in 1989 and is Fonterra’s northernmost site. The site produces a range of milk powders, butters, AMF and a range of speciality products. Kauri’s Skim Milk Powder evaporator remains the largest single stage evaporator in NZ!

About the opportunity | Te whai waahi 

We have an opportunity for a qualified Industrial Electrician to join our fast-paced and innovative Kauri site where you’ll be a key member of our high performing Maintenance Team, focusing on Electrical and Instrumentation maintenance and breakdown services across the site.  

Utilising your extensive industrial electrical experience and problem-solving skills you will fault find and repair breakdowns while navigating changing work priorities. Day to day you will also complete planned and preventative maintenance initiatives to ensure our site performs at its peak each day. Other areas of focus include high voltage, instrumentation, process control and automation.

This is a permanent position working a rotating shift pattern with an on-call element.

About you | Moe koe

We are looking for an individual who remains calm under pressure when responding to unplanned breakdowns and can confidently troubleshoot issues as they occur. With your forward-thinking drive and ability to achieve results you’ll have plenty of scope to drive continuous improvement on equipment with some of our industry's cutting edge automated technology. You’ll be a strong problem solver with excellent communication skills that will see you working collaboratively within the team and across the site.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• A New Zealand Electrical Registration with a current practicing licence.
• Experience in and industrial electrical maintenance environment with equipment repair, failure analysis to root cause, and preventative maintenance.
• Great computer literacy skills, ideally with experience using SAP.
• Hands on experience with PLC automation systems and instrumentation beneficial.
• Experience within the food or dairy or manufacturing industry is highly desirable.

Are you excited about this opportunity but may only meet some requirements?  

That's not a problem. We are committed to growing our internal talent and building a diverse workplace; therefore, we are open to looking at applicants with excellent transferable skills. If that's you, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or one of our other opportunities. 

Applications will close at midnight 23rd July 2025 – please note if we get an influx of applications we may close the applications sooner.

Sound good to you? We like to see as many jobs as possible filled by our talented existing team, so if you are interested, please apply now so we can continue to solve for better, together.  

You, me, us together. Tᾱtou tᾱtou.