About The Role
This fixed-term, 12-month role sits at the heart of our maintenance operation, ensuring everything runs smoothly, safely, and on schedule. You’ll play a key part in planning and coordinating day-to-day workshop activity, from building practical maintenance schedules to keeping work flowing efficiently between technicians, parts, and contractors.
Working closely with the Workshop Foreman, you’ll help prioritise and sequence maintenance to suit changing conditions, while ensuring plans are clear, realistic, and visible ahead of time. You’ll also take ownership of maintaining accurate job information and records within our systems, capturing feedback and ensuring every job is properly documented and closed out.
A big part of the role is coordination, making sure equipment arrives with clear job scopes, parts are available when needed, and contractors are booked and aligned. You’ll act as the central point of communication across the workshop, helping teams stay connected and focused.
You’ll also bring a proactive mindset, identifying recurring issues, spotting opportunities to improve planning efficiency, and supporting better equipment reliability over time.
Above all, you’ll contribute to a strong safety culture, ensuring maintenance planning always considers safe work practices, risks, and site requirements.
About You
You’re organised, detail-focused, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two days look the same. With a practical approach and strong communication skills, you’re confident coordinating moving parts and keeping things on track – even as priorities shift. You enjoy working alongside others, bringing structure and clarity to maintenance planning, and contributing to a team that values efficiency, reliability, and safety.
You’ll bring:
- Experience in maintenance planning, workshop coordination, or a similar role
- Strong organisational skills and high attention to detail
- Confidence using maintenance management systems (NuPoint experience a bonus)
- Clear, effective communication skills and a collaborative working style
- Ability to adapt quickly and reprioritise in a changing operational environment
It would be great if you also have:
- Experience in an industrial, manufacturing, or agricultural setting
- Familiarity with forward planning and managing seasonal workload variations
About LeaderBrand
At LeaderBrand, we’re passionate about evolving fresh food for a healthier world. As a proud family-owned business, our goal is to be New Zealand’s most innovative and consistent fresh food producer. We farm across three key growing regions, process and pack in state-of-the-art post-harvest facilities, and are supported by a nationwide sales team delivering fresh produce to every corner of Aotearoa. Our 400+ people are central to our success. We’re always on the lookout for new talent with energy, passion, and a drive to learn – people excited to help shape the future of fresh food.
Gisborne is the heart of our business and the place where LeaderBrand was founded more than 50 years ago. Over that time, LeaderBrand has become integral to the story of our community, with the next generations of those who started with us returning to shape the future alongside us. We also have farms in Pukekohe and Chertsey.
We have a strong vision for the future of our business, our people, and our industry. We’re constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Our continuous improvement mindset grounds us as one of New Zealand’s leading horticultural businesses. We seek, harness, and develop the best people, technology, land, and machinery to shape the future of food.
