Fonterra careers

Milk collection and transport

More than a driver, our Tanker Operators are the face of Fonterra at the farm-gate and on the road. They’re professional drivers, with high industry standards, a commitment to health and safety, and provide great customer service to our farmer shareholders.

Fonterra recruits across New Zealand and Australia to work throughout the milk collection season. Join us and you’ll experience the latest in-cab technology, variety in your route, and one of the best rates of pay in the industry.

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If you’ve got the right ingredients, we’ve got the recipe for success.

Every day our Foodservice Sales teams partner closely with hotels, pubs, cafes, and restaurants to ensure the food they serve is the very best, every time.

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Process & Packaging Operators

We are always looking for great people to join our team of process and packing operators, forklift drivers, health and safety, and quality professionals, support super-stars and more.

Our Process or Packing Operators are a specialist group and as part of the team, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology and have a diverse range of responsibilities that will grow your skill-base to whole new levels.

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Graduate Programme

When it comes to our graduate programmes we aim to attract, recruit and select a diverse group of graduates. 

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Apprenticeships 

Combining the opportunity to learn and grow far beyond your core apprenticeship, across a wide variety of disciplines.

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No matter what product you are managing it’s your job to ensure that your strong forklift skills and distribution centre or warehouse experience allow the goods to be unloaded, palletised and stored correctly, or pick/packed and sent onto the correct location efficiently and accurately.

Our forklift roles have various shift patterns which will give you great work/life balance, meaning more time with friends and family. 

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From here to the world, great careers begin at Fonterra!

As a Fonterra farmer rises at dawn to milk cows in New Zealand, a chef in Saudi Arabia whips up our butter, our food technologists in Chicago help a customer achieve creamier yoghurt and a Sri Lankan mother mixes a jug of our milk powder for her family. Around the clock and around the globe, people are enjoying nutritious foods from Fonterra.

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Our Lab Tech roles are pivotal to our success and a great place to develop your science career. 

Working with modern equipment and a great team, you'll ensure we accurately record and document test results for a wide range of milk products, collect samples from our production line and enter the test results into our system to ensure world-class data collection and storage.

With an interest in science, a science degree (chemistry, microbiology, or food technology) or a diploma in food technology or applied science you’ll bring strong computer skills, problem-solving ability and a commitment to quality.

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Global Information Services is key to ensuring the success of Fonterra and we're embarking on a promising journey.

It's a journey that will see our Group Information Services team digitise our entire Co-operative by 2018.  Our goal is to optimise the value derived from the business-critical information services used every day by over 10,000 employees in over 45 countries.

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