15/10/2025
Job Title: Floor Supervisor - Packhouse Operations - Day & Night Shift
With work rights in New Zealand should apply.
About Us:
Auckland Pack & Cool (APAC), based in Takanini, is a mid-sized post-harvest facility specializing in packing and cool-storing kiwifruit for export and distribution by Zespri International Ltd.
We’re looking for reliable and motivated Floor Supervisors to join our packhouse team - across both day and night shifts.
You’ll work closely with the Production Supervisor to keep operations running smoothly, ensuring staff, machinery, and packaging flow efficiently through the packhouse. This role is key to maintaining performance, quality, and safety on the floor while allowing the Production Supervisor to focus on efficient, in-grade packing.
About Role:
As a Floor Supervisor, you’ll coordinate and support packers, stackers, tray prep staff, and label operations, ensuring the production floor runs safely and efficiently. You’ll also assist with training new staff, maintaining quality and food safety standards, and monitoring daily operational performance.
**Key Responsibilities:
-Packhouse Operations
Supervise daily workflow across packing lines and tray prep areas
Assist with staff training and onboarding
Monitor packer and stacker performance and reassign as needed
Ensure correct pack types, Plix sizes, and tidy, consistent packing
Oversee EAN and fruit labelling; replace label rolls when required
Support grower and packaging changes with accurate labelling and setup
Maintain traceability records and ensure shift paperwork is complete
Assist QCs with counts, extra graders, and issue resolution
Ensure end-of-shift clean-ups and safe shutdown procedures
**Health, Safety & Food Safety:
Enforce APAC’s Health & Safety and Food Safety standards
Ensure safe equipment and PPE use across all staff
Monitor staff conduct and apply low-level corrective actions where necessary
**General Duties:
Support general site maintenance, cleanliness, and water/gas monitoring
Liaise with EDI, QC, and tray prep teams to maintain production flow
Provide support to repack operations when required
Communicate any operational changes to floor staff promptly
**What We’re Looking For:
Experience in a supervisory or team leadership role (manufacturing, horticulture, or logistics preferred)
Excellent communication and organisational skills
Mechanically minded and proactive problem solver
Strong focus on safety, quality, and efficiency
Able to lead a diverse team and maintain a positive floor culture
Computer skills (Microsoft Office, FreshPack/FreshCool experience a bonus)
Reliable, self-motivated, and willing to work flexible hours (day or night)
If you feel that your qualifications match to this position, kindly send your CV to [email protected]
