People Coordinator

Silver Fern Farms Ltd; Timaru; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in Timaru seeks a passionate People Coordinator for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role involves supporting recruitment, onboarding, and workforce planning, ensuring efficient, people-focused services. Candidates should have administration experience, strong communication skills, and an understanding of NZ employment issues. Perks include discounted meat sales, subsidised health insurance, and paid sick leave from day one.

Benefits

Discounted staff meat sales

Paid sick leave from date of employment

Subsidised health insurance

Free on-site parking

Clothing allowance

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an administration or coordination role.
• Understanding of NZ employment law and industrial relations practices.
• Experience in a unionised, shift-based manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Improve international team member engagement and attendance.
• Support seasonal recruitment activities including advertising and interviews.
• Provide coordination and administration support for People activities.

Skills

Administration

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Relationship building

Job description

About the Role

Silver Fern Farms are looking for a passionate People Coordinator to join their enthusiastic and supportive team at their Pareora site in Timaru on a 12 month fixed term contract, covering parental leave.

You’ll be the first point of contact for day-to-day queries, supporting seasonal recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning and learning activities, while ensuring that our systems and processes run seamlessly. Additionally, you will provide key support for the International Worker cohort at the Pareora site. By partnering closely with the Regional People Advisor, Employment Coordinator, site leaders, and our wider People team, you’ll contribute to delivering efficient, people-focused services across our network.

Reporting to the Assistant Site Manager, this role provides essential coordination and administration support across the full spectrum of People activities, ensuring smooth processes and great experiences for our team members.

Key Responsibilities

• In partnership with Production Leaders, improve international team member engagement and attendance.
• Supporting Regional People Advisors, ensuring consistent, accurate application of people process and policies that align with Silver Fern Farms expectations and standards
• Support a range of seasonal recruitment activities, including advertising, interviews and new employee documentation
• Support the training team with onboarding process for all new seasonal staff

About You

• You would ideally bring significant experience in an administration or coordination role, with experience working in unionised, shift-based and/ or multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Highly developed administration skills, with the ability to maintain high levels of accuracy
• An understanding of international worker and the challenges they face transitioning to NZ life and employment
• Some understanding of NZ employment law, collective agreements, and industrial relations practices
• Strong relationship building skills with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Practical, customer focused and responsive

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 shop, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6 month anniversary required), subsidised health insurance, and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling. There’s the bonus of free on-site parking and a SFF branded clothing allowance also.

How to Apply

Applications are open now and will be reviewed as they’re received. Click “Apply” to submit your application via our Careers Website. Applications close on Sunday 12 October.

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us. You can see more about our commitments to our people and their work by visiting our Belong Here webpage: https://careers.silverfernfarms.com/nz/en/belong-here