The Role
Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Every day, thousands of customers shop in-store or online. To make it happen, our supply chain – one of New Zealand’s biggest – keeps everything moving. With over 1,000 team members, we move more than 97.8 million cartons a year, covering 19 million kilometres — that’s nearly 24 round trips to the moon!
Te Tūranga – About the role
As a Training Coordinator you’ll be responsible training new staff to our distribution centre and ensuring all newbies are fully trained and signed off.
You’ll also,
· Facilitate cross-training and provide regular feedback for continuous improvement
· Ensure pre-employment packs from temp agencies are supplied and all the relevant checks are completed
· Perform site inductions for all new starters to the business
· Participate in the DC Health & Safety Committee as an active member
· Develop, maintain, review all Training SOP’s
· Provide timely corrective advice and guidance to floor staff on a regular basis
· Assist in developing templates and training material
· Maintain and develop effective relationships with stakeholder groups, including managers, members, operators, suppliers, institutional providers and other stakeholders
· Lead and role model the Foodstuffs North Island values
This role will cover our morning shift – Monday to Friday 6am to 2:30pm.
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits
· Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36 free EV plugs
· Southern cross health insurance, Foodies superannuation scheme
· Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
· A day off on your birthday and long service leave
· Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About you
The ideal candidate for this role will:
· Be a strong and effective communicator with excellent written and verbal skills
· Have experience working in a Supply Chain environment (preferred but not essential)
· Have working experience operating a forklift or other MHE
· Have a strong background in administrative excellence and ideally some experience organising/coordinating
· Be self-motivated, organised, and effectively able to prioritise workload
· Be an excel whizz who can create and own large data sheets
· Ideally have experience with Health & Safety practices and implementing positive change
We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!
Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [email protected]. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.
Don’t ‘cart’ around – apply now!
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The Company
What We Do
Foodies is a cooperative, made up of 22,000 kiwis just like you, working hard to make sure New Zealanders get more out of life. Chances are you have been one of our customers, we serve more than 1.4 million kiwis each week through our PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores.
We have more than 350 stores up and down the North Island, from Houhora in the far north, to Island Bay in the coolest little capital in the world. And we have support centres in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington.
Check out www.foodstuffs.careers to hear our people talk about what they do, why they do it, and to hear about some of the coolest career opportunities in NZ.
