Services Operator Danone Nutricia NZ Ltd location Otago.

About the job danone Balclutha is looking for a Services Operator! Through operating and maintaining site-wide utilities and services alongside our Services Engineers, you will be supporting our manufacturing and maintenance operations. You will be part of a team working to minimise our spray-drying plant’s environmental impact in line with our global Nature ambition. This is a Casual position, working 12-hour shifts.

You will ensure utilities (electricity, chill water, steam, water, waste, wastewater) always operate to optimum safety, reliability, availability, cost, efficiency and product quality. Ensure the sludge and waster water around the site is properly cleaned and kept to standar.

Troubleshoot plant performance issues including breakdowns and failures in a timely manner, in conjunction with plant specialists and service providers. Manage chemicals inventory to ensure no stock-outs. Carry out hands-on preventative and reactive maintenance. Operate daily effluent irrigation and sludge to offsite farmland, in line with environmental requirements.

About you with your hands-on experience, willingness to do physical jobs around the site to maintain services you are looking for an opportunity to build a career in Engineering/Maintenance within the dairy industry. We are happy to provide training for the right candidate.

To be successful, you will have hands-on experience in either electrical or maintenance capacity (electrical qualification is a plus). Endurance to do physical activities around the site to keep it clean. A thorough approach to your work and high level of responsiveness.

Willingness to learn and commitment to build a career with Danone. Good communication skills, ability to be a team player. About us do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you. Working here you’ll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities.

You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world, such as YoPro, Activia, Aptamil and Karicare, and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

Always looking to bring the outside in to continuously improve our ways of working as well as our Danoner’s day to day experience, we have been awarded Winner of the 2020 Employer of Choice awards through the NZ HRD Awards and Great Place To Work Certification in 2021.

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet One Health BY YOU. We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energises you.

Located in the beautiful vista of Greenfield, just 20 minutes from Balclutha in the South Otago region, Danone Nutricia NZ spray drying plant employs state of art European technology to manufacture and package high-quality nutritional powders.

Our farm-fresh quality NZ milk is collected, delivered and processed daily ensuring only the best for our consumers. Our operation prides itself on delivering the finest food and ingredients to help stand by the consumers of our products. Danone manufactures and markets a range of infant formula products and toddler nutritional supplements in New Zealand and Australia.

We offer a good workplace environment. Free fruit, Annual Health Check, Flu Vaccination, development opportunities and so much more. An opportunity to learn in one of the most successful health food companies in the world, with high level of people and plant investment in booming infant formula industry.

The ability to make a difference to our society through Specialised Nutrition. Endless possibilities to develop and accelerate your career. Proving yourself in this role could lead to future opportunities within Danone both locally and abroad. We support our employees to take ownership of developing their career within Danone and encourage moves across (as well as within) our varying functions and businesses.