Production Manager
Join us as a Production Manager, where you'll oversee day-to-day operations, lead a high-performing team, and drive continuous improvement to ensure best-in-class production outcomes.
About us
For over 125 years, T&G Fresh has nourished generations of Kiwis with fresh fruit and vegetables. We grow, pack, market, sell, distribute, import and export fresh produce from our own orchards and farms, as well as from over 700 Kiwi growers.
About the opportunity
We’re looking for a high-performing Production Manager to lead our Nelson Packhouse operations. In this key leadership role, you’ll drive efficiency, team capability, and production excellence, ensuring high-quality produce reaches markets worldwide. You'll oversee day-to-day operations, optimize processes, and collaborate across teams to enhance productivity, quality, and innovation.
Key responsibilities include
- Lead and develop a team of 8 direct and 60+ indirect reports across two shifts.
- Drive operational excellence by ensuring packhouse efficiency, cost control, and production targets are met.
- Ensure compliance with food safety, quality assurance, and health & safety regulations.
- Optimise processes using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to improve workflow and reduce downtime.
- Manage budgets and CAPEX planning to support business objectives.
About you
- You’re a strategic thinker, problem-solver, and passionate leader with experience in packhouse, food manufacturing, or logistics.
- Experienced managing high-volume, high-speed production facilities with a focus on efficiency, process improvement, and cost control.
- Strong understanding of food safety, hygiene, and quality assurance requirements.
- Ability to use data-driven decision-making to improve performance and resolve bottlenecks.
- Comfortable leading through change, improving processes, and managing performance in a dynamic environment.
Apply now and join us to shape the future of post-harvest operations.
Proof of eligibility to work in New Zealand is required for all applicants, we are not able to sponsor visa applications for this position. Any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory drug test and security check.
We want T&G to be a place where everyone is accepted, respected and celebrated for who they are – regardless of our similarities or differences. It’s essential that everyone can be themselves and thrive, and that together we create a diverse and vibrant workplace.
- Team
- Operations & Supply Chain
- Locations
- Nelson
- Employment type
- Full-time
Grow your career with us
Help us grow healthier futures, and your own too.
At T&G, you do more than join a company. You grow healthier futures. Not only your own future, but everyone and everything around you – your whānau, community and our natural environment.
This single purpose – to grow healthier futures – is what gets us out of bed every morning and why we do what we do.
How we make this happen is through our 2,000+ people. It takes a diverse range of great people, united by our energy, care, creativity and drive, to grow, distribute and sell delicious fresh fruit and vegetables to Kiwis and consumers around the world. And with our incredible 124-year history, we’re passionate about growing an even stronger and better T&G for generations to come.
If you’d like to be part of our exciting journey, come and join us. We offer unlimited opportunities to grow your future with us.
About T&G Global
Our story began more than 125 years ago as Turners and Growers, a fruit auction business in Auckland. Today, as T&G, our fresh, delicious produce nourishes people in more than 60 countries around the world. Together, we’re united in growing healthier futures.
Production Manager
Join us as a Production Manager, where you'll oversee day-to-day operations, lead a high-performing team, and drive continuous improvement to ensure best-in-class production outcomes.
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