Senior Team Leader, Primary Butchery Beef

Te Tūranga /About the Role: 

Step into a leadership role where you’ll be at the heart of our operations. As Senior Team Leader – Primary Butchery Beef, you’ll guide a production team to deliver excellence every day – ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency while fostering a culture of respect and accountability. This is a hands-on role where you’ll spend most of your time on the floor, leading by example and driving continuous improvement.

Based on seasonal work, this role will be Night Shift Nov - July 3.30pm-1am Monday to Friday and Day Shift 6am -4.00pm Monday to Friday the remainder of the year.

Te Mahi /Key Responsibilities: 

• Inspire and coach your team to achieve production targets and maintain compliance.
• Organize and monitor daily production plans, ensuring quality standards are met.
• Champion health and safety, embedding an uncompromising safety culture.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and encourage innovative ideas.
• Communicate effectively across departments to ensure smooth operations.

Ōu Pūkenga /About You: 

We’re looking for a hands-on, people-first leader who’s confident managing production in a fast-moving environment. You’ll take full ownership of your department – leading from the front, supporting your team to deliver great results, and making sure everything runs safely and smoothly. You’ll need to be proactive, solutions-focused, and able to juggle day-to-day performance while keeping an eye on the bigger picture. Most importantly, you’ll build a team culture that’s strong, accountable, and ready to adapt to whatever comes next.

• Leadership experience in a production or processing environment (meat industry or FMCG a bonus)
• A strong commitment to health & safety, quality, compliance, and animal welfare
• Confidence in people management – you know how to coach, support and hold your team to account
• Great communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships across all levels
• A continuous improvement mindset – you're always looking for better ways to do things and can bring others along with you
• Good computer and reporting skills – you’re comfortable using Excel, Outlook and production systems

Te Ahurea /Why work at Silver Fern Farms? 

Silver Fern Farms are all about Creating Goodness from the Farms the World Needs. Creating goodness is about taking a broader view of what goodness means, how we can create it and the impact it can have. That Goodness is created through the work of our People, the skill & expertise of our Farmers and our customers around the globe. ‘Goodness’ is also about being good to people and communities, animal welfare, and showing care and respect for the environment. 

For you, we offer heavily discounted staff meat sales through our on-site Butcher's Block, paid sick leave from the date of employment (no waiting for the 6-month anniversary required), and confidential employee assistance with career planning, financial advice and counselling. 

Tono Mai /To Apply: 

Click on ‘Apply’ below to submit your application.  We assess applications as they are received so don’t delay. 

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us.