Machinery Manager - Collaborative Environment

You don’t need to be a machine to crank your career into the next gear with this role—you just need to know how to operate one!

An opening is available for an experienced Orchard Machinery Manager at Apata in Gisborne, you will be an integral member of the team delivering excellent on orchard machinery services to our managed orchards and Growers all year round. 

If you’re a hands-on person, who enjoys getting the job done and done right then we’d like to meet you.  This is key role in our Orchard team managing the end to end service delivery of machinery operations, from planning, to delivering operational activities to ensuring we comply and complete the necessary admin/reporting. As an added bonus we’d like you to share you knowledge and develop others. Still interested then here’s some stuff about us.

Apata GROW in a bite

Apata offers Orchard Management for kiwifruit growers through our Apata GROW team. Apata GROW specialises in providing on-orchard and technical services to maximise crop performance.

As our newest team member, you’ll be joining a well-established and highly regarded company where employee health and happiness is valued, and high performance is recognised.

Our philosophy? That together, we’re better. Our success is shared, and our work is built on respect and appreciation for one another. 

Our mission is clear: to uphold the trust of our growers through our unwavering commitment to performance, leadership, strong relationships, and transparent practices.

It’s as simple as that!

As an Orchard Machinery Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the maintenance and safe operation of all on-orchard machinery and related activities.

• Oversee the planning, operations, and daily calendar activities of the machinery
• Operation and maintenance of all on orchard machinery
• Maintenance of all on orchard structures
• Operation, and maintenance of agrichemical spray applicator
• Ensuring the safe use of orchard machinery, vehicles, structures, and crop spray applicators throughout the orchard
• Oversee labour requirements for machinery operations
• Development of team members 
• Complete necessary admin, reports, process documentation and compliance requirements.
• Any other duty that is reasonably expected in the production of kiwifruit crop and the maintenance of orchards.

To be successful in the role you will need: -

• Full drivers licence, class 4 preferred
• Demonstrable tractor driving capability
• Demonstrable capability to measure and apply agrichemicals
• Current Forklift license
• Ability to work flexible hours including weekends and unsociable hours if the weather conditions require.
• An up to date Growsafe and first aid certificate is required
• At least two years farm or orchard maintenance experience