Supply Chain Safety & Wellbeing Specialist (Night-shift)

Foodstuffs North Island; Auckland; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading grocery distributor in Auckland seeks a Safety & Wellbeing Specialist to enhance safety culture across their Distribution Centre. The role involves supporting strategic initiatives, conducting audits, and training staff on safety practices. Ideal candidates have experience in complex supply chains, strong organizational skills, and knowledge of safety systems. The position offers competitive benefits and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Southern cross health insurance

5% discount at retail stores

Birthday off and long service leave

In-house learning and development

Flu vaccinations and social groups

Qualifications

• Experience in a complex supply chain network.
• Proven relationship building and strategic decision-making skills.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Shape a proactive safety culture across the Distribution Centre.
• Support audits and incident investigations.
• Collaborate on safety training initiatives and wellbeing services.

Skills

Experience in complex supply chain network

Relationship building

Strategic decision-making

Strong organizational skills

Safety software systems knowledge

Job description

Ko wai mātou – About us

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!

With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Every day, thousands of customers shop in-store or online. To make it happen, our supply chain – one of New Zealand’s biggest – keeps everything moving. With over 1,000 team members, we move more than 97.8 million cartons a year, covering 19 million kilometres — that’s nearly 24 round trips to the moon!

Te Tūranga – About the role

As a Safety & Wellbeing Specialist you’ll play a key role in shaping a proactive safety culture across our Distribution Centre. You\'ll support strategic initiatives, coach teams, and help drive continuous improvement in health, safety, and wellbeing. You’ll also:

• Support the delivery of FSNI’s Safety and Wellbeing strategy and annual tactical plans within the DC.
• Lead and assist with audits, incident investigations, and corrective actions to maintain compliance and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Training Coordinators and contribute towards training for new and existing staff
• Coach and mentor DC teams and leaders on hazard management, incident reporting, and safety systems.
• Drive safety-related training initiatives and wellbeing services for team members across all sites
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to embed best-practice safety processes and systems.
• Monitor and report on key safety, wellbeing, and injury management metrics to inform decision-making.
• Actively contribute to safety committees and foster a positive, engaged safety culture throughout the supply chain.
• The roster for this role is Monday to Friday 10pm to 6:30am

Ngā painga - What we offer

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits

• Southern cross health insurance
• 5% discount at our retail stores
• A day off on your birthday and long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

He kōrero mōu - About you

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Experience working in a complex supply chain network
• Relationship building and strategic decision-making skills
• Strong organisational skills in order to manage multiple priorities and complete data inputs or updates accurately and in a timely manner
• Be a trusted contributor to the UNI Ambient entire leadership group across all functions and influence decision-making for the best business outcomes
• Strong safety software systems and process knowledge

We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don\'t meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [e-mail]. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!