Field Technician (Dairy Farm Auditor) - Canterbury

at  AsureQuality

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Utilise your Advanced Sustainable Nutrient Management certification and environmental or dairy farm background in this new Dairy Farm Auditor role.
Visit customers farms in the Canterbury region to conduct audits and assessments for assurance programmes. The purpose of these audits is to help customers ensure excellence in environmental outcomes, animal health & wellbeing, infrastructure, and staff management.
Reporting to the Area Manager of Farm Systems Auditing, you will be part of a team of 12 and often work in pairs to visit customers farms to complete audits and provide similar livestock services.
This is a full-time permanent position that will involve working minimum 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Start times will vary depending on timing of scheduled audits with dairy farms.

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Have an Advanced Sustainable Nutrient Management certification from Massey University.
• Be well organised, have excellent customer service and strong relationship building skills, as the Dairy companies and farmers are clients paying for your service.
• Ability to do occasional domestic travel and have a clean and current NZ driver’s licence.
• It’s important that you are comfortable being on farms near livestock / large animals.
• Flexible with your work hours adapting to match when audits are scheduled to take place.

ABOUT US:

Everyday our experienced team of 1800+ people work alongside farmers, producers, and others throughout the food supply chain to help them uphold what Aotearoa stands for in food - a higher standard of quality and safety.
We are passionate about our shared role as Kaitiaki Kai, guardians of food, and have a deep responsibility to do the right thing for food and the environments it comes from.
We are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining great people, and supporting them to be the best they can be. We know diverse teams are stronger teams and we believe in fairness and opportunity for all.

• Complete 3-4 audits per week. Each onsite audit can take on average 6 hours to conduct.
• Maintain a positive relationship with farming customers while also holding them accountable to the rules and regulations.
• Collaborate with team members and other stakeholders in the business to learn and share knowledge in a way that will help maintain a culture of continuous improvement and excellence in service delivery.
• Actively participate in on the job learning and adapting to new or updated regulations and programmes.