Fonterra Careers

Fonterra offers a broad range of careers, from Commercial to Legal, Sales and Marketing to HR and Sustainability, we’re everyday people doing good things together to enable our Co-operative’s strategy to enhance people’s lives through convenience, health, and wellbeing by unlocking the goodness of NZ milk.

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These 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 production lines, and enter results to ensure world-class data collection and storage. 

With an interest in science, a related science degree or diploma, you’ll also bring strong computer skills, and a commitment to quality.

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Our Co-op has a long and proud heritage of dairy innovation, pioneering many world firsts and, increasingly, new solutions which aim to solve problems our customers face in their operations and help people live healthier and longer lives. 

To be a leader in Dairy Science and Innovation we require the best talent available. Our R&D specialists are a highly collegial team of scientists, technologists, and engineers - many of whom are the world’s leading experts in dairy science.

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Our global footprint means we bring people together from all over the world to deliver world-class engineering and manufacturing practices to our 26 New Zealand manufacturing sites. We’re made up of everyday good people who are passionate about doing amazing things with dairy. We have ambitious goals and are looking for great people who are keen to make an impact in the work they do.

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Our Process or Packing Operators produce the highest quality food products that are exported to over 50 countries. 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. No matter what point you are in your career, you will have the potential to build your career with us.

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We operate a complex and customer-oriented supply chain network, and pride ourselves on the reliable delivery of our diverse portfolio of products to our customers and their consumers across the globe!

The backbone of our operations is the passionate people at every stage of the value chain, delivering the right goods on time, every time. When it comes to supply chain and logistics, no matter which team you join, you'll have access to global tools, world-class local and global expertise, and a diverse range of career pathways.

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No matter what product you are managing, your strong forklift skills and distribution centre or warehouse experience means the goods are unloaded, palletised, and stored correctly, or pick/packed and sent onto the correct location efficiently and accurately. 

Our forklift roles are available across multiple sites and offer various shift patterns that will give you great work/life balance, meaning more time with friends and family.  

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

Our customer-facing teams are passionate about representing our unrivaled portfolio of products with a focus on winning the hearts of customers. If you have a passion for building customer loyalty, then a role in our retail, sales, or customer service teams might just be for you!

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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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