Orchard Administrator - Seasonal
Support one of New Zealand's biggest cherry harvests! A fast-paced admin role focused on harvest records, payroll support, and keeping orchard operations running smoothly.
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.
Hinton’s Orchard is based in Alexandra and spans 120 hectares, one of New Zealand’s largest stonefruit orchards. Hinton's is a long-standing fruit growing business known for producing premium cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, and peacharines for consumers in New Zealand and across Asia.
We're looking for a Seasonal Orchard Administrator to join our team and play a key role in supporting a successful cherry harvest season.
About the Opportunity
This is a busy and rewarding seasonal role supporting orchard operations during harvest. Working closely with the Head Grower, management team, and orchard supervisors, you'll be responsible for ensuring harvest, labour, and productivity information is accurately recorded, verified, and reported.
You'll play a critical role in supporting harvest operations and ensuring seasonal employees are paid accurately and on time.
Key Responsibilities
Record, verify, and maintain accurate harvest and labour data
Prepare harvest documentation, picker records, and payroll information
Ensure productivity and harvest data is recorded against the correct workers and orchard blocks
Support onboarding, attendance tracking, and administration for seasonal employees
Assist with reporting, payroll preparation, and operational administration
Work closely with orchard supervisors and management to coordinate information and resolve discrepancies
Assist with maintaining Health & Safety and compliance records
About You
We're looking for someone who enjoys working with people, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and takes pride in producing accurate work.
To be successful in this role, you'll bring:
Previous administration, office support, or data entry experience
Strong computer skills and confidence learning new systems quickly
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Good communication skills and the ability to build positive working relationships
Strong organisation and time management skills
Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines during peak harvest periods
A positive, flexible, and team-focused attitude
Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information appropriately
Apply Now
If you're organised, confident with computer systems, and enjoy supporting people and operations behind the scenes, we'd love to hear from you !!
Proof of eligibility to work in New Zealand is required for all applicants and any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory 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
- Growing
- Location
- Alexandra
- Employment type
- Temporary
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.