General Hand

Sealord is one of the largest seafood companies in the Southern Hemisphere.  And with more than 60 years of fishing experience, farming, processing, and marketing operations, our business consistently delivers quality seafood to our customers around the world.

Established in 1961, Nelson Sealord is half owned by the Māori people of New Zealand, through Moana New Zealand (Aotearoa Fisheries Ltd), and half owned by global seafood company Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd (Nissui).  Sealord is one of the largest quota holders in New Zealand with partners and subsidiaries around the world through Nissui’s global links.  Sealord Group has fishing operations, which include all deep-water fishing activities as well as international and joint venture deep fishing activities, in New Zealand and Australia.

Casual positions have become available as a General Hand in Coated Products on afternoon shift. The role is Monday – Friday, 2.30pm to 10pm

In this position you will need to be able to anticipate, thinking and planning and taking appropriate action so that processing downtime is minimized. The role is part of the wider production team and flexibility to work wherever needed to achieve the production plan and meet cleaning, quality compliance and safety standards of the whole shift is expected.

The role requires some physically demanding work, moving machinery in and out of processing position as products change, lifting of materials and manoeuvrability around moving machinery.

Join a great production team who take pride in achieving targets.  You will receive on job training to ensure you can be successful in the role.  We encourage an innovative, safe work environment and a positive culture.

A satisfactory pre-employment drug test and a physical medical assessment will be required to be considered for this role. Applicants must have legal entitlement to live and work in New Zealand.
If you are interested and able to fulfil the requirements, please apply online at www.sealord.com.