Job Title: Veterinarian (VTS2)
Role type: Permanent, full-time
Location: Pukeuri, North Otago
Salary range: VTS Range 9: $97,680 to $122,100 per annum. Starting salary will be dependent on skills and experience of the successful applicant.
In addition to salary, we offer overtime, penal time, and shift allowances.
Korero mo te Turanga - About the Role The purpose of this role within New Zealand Food Safety Verification Services is to provide a range of food safety, animal welfare, and biosecurity verification and certification services based at meat exporting plants.
We have an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys problem solving and enhancing their relationships with others with effective communication.
This is a permanent full-time role, 40 hours per week. Alliance Pukeuri is a beef and sheep processing plant which operates on both day and night shifts, 7 days a week.
Shift patterns will depend on the time of the year, which includes a mix of early, daytime, and late shifts. For half the year, shifts will include Monday - Friday, with occasional Saturday work; for the other half of the year, shifts will include Monday - Saturday, with occasional Sunday work.
Any overtime is compensated, and early starts or late finishes are recognised with penal time payments, as well as shift leave accumulation.
Responsibilities Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders, such as meat works personnel and Veterinary colleagues. Verify that requirements and procedures are being followed. Provide certification for animal meat exports. Complete ante mortem inspections and occasionally provide judgement on post-mortem inspection. Maintain knowledge within the farming communities and be involved in on-farm verification. Ensure animal welfare is being maintained. You will receive full-time technical training prior to being warranted under the relevant legislation. We have ongoing, on-site training, mentoring, and technical support for you in your new role.
Mou - About You Be a New Zealand registered Veterinarian (or be able to obtain registration with VCNZ). Hold a full New Zealand driver's licence (or be able to obtain a full NZ licence by converting a current overseas driver's licence). Have verbal and written skills, and analytical reasoning skills. Demonstrate integrity and trust, ethics and values, resilience, adaptability, and openness. Have experience in persuading and influencing, teamwork, planning, and organising. Have computer literacy and can operate standard and customised software to an acceptable standard including word-processing, Excel, internet, and email. Knowledge of HACCP / Quality Assurance in Food Safety is advantageous, however, this is included in your training. Mo to matou Ropu - About the Team The role sits within the Establishment group of the Verification Services directorate.
Reporting to a Supervising Veterinarian (VTS1) on site, you will work alongside other VTS2's as well as working closely with personnel at the plant.
This position may sometimes be required to work at other local meat establishments in the geographic area.
State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. The Otago region has a wide range of hiking and cycling trails that feature a dramatic landscape of the adjacent Otago Peninsula.
Benefits of working at MPI Annual Wellness payment and reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes. Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation. Professional membership reimbursement. Please note, given this position is safety sensitive, the preferred applicant/s for the position will be required to undergo a drug and alcohol pre-employment screening test.
In your cover letter, we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation.
To view the position description and/or apply online, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it.
Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday, 22 September. If you have any questions about the role, please email ******.
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