Career Opportunities: Inventory Administrator - Timaru (41539)
Position Title: Inventory Administrator - Timaru
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41539
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
We’re looking for an Inventory Administrator to join our Timaru manufacturing site. This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our inventory systems and the effective management of direct cost materials. You’ll play a key part in supporting safe operations, maintaining quality standards, and contributing to continuous improvement across the site.
About You.
What you’ll be doing.
- Managing data integrity and day‑to‑day operation of inventory systems.
- Coordinating availability, storage, handling, and flow of direct cost materials.
- Supporting health and safety culture through proactive hazard identification and incident reporting.
- Maintaining inventory stock levels, including cycle counts and material reconciliations.
- Ensuring compliance with GMP, HACCP, Food Safety and Quality Management Systems.
- Conducting internal audits and maintaining documentation such as Work Instructions and Standard Work.
- Managing First Time Accuracy (FTA) for materials receipt and resolving inventory sync issues.
- Preparing monthly reporting for production, quality, and cold storage.
- Participating in Continuous Improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities and sustaining improvements.
- Supporting coordination of dry store stock rotation, logistics, and just‑in‑time deliveries.
- Engaging across multiple departments including Production, Quality, Coldstore, Maintenance, and Supplier partners.
What you’ll need to be successful.
- Experience in supply chain and inventory management.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (preferred but not essential).
- Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, Food Safety (HACCP), GMP, and environmental or warehouse management systems.
- Strong organisational, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve problems logically, and work independently.
- Competence in documentation, reporting, and technology systems.
- A continuous improvement mindset and the confidence to influence and support change.
- Strong computer literacy.
About the team.
This role is part of the Timaru Manufacturing team and works closely with Production, Quality, Coldstore, Agronomy, Maintenance, and Supply Chain functions. You will collaborate daily with leaders, frontline teams, and external suppliers to ensure materials are managed safely, efficiently, and in line with compliance standards.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
#LI-AK1
*We've got it covered! No external agency support is required and unsolicited CVs will not be considered.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: ANZ
Department: Timaru Potato Production
Location(s): NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Timaru
Company: McCain Foods (NZ) Limited
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Position Title: Inventory Administrator - Timaru
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 41539
In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.
About the role.
We’re looking for an Inventory Administrator to join our Timaru manufacturing site. This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our inventory systems and the effective management of direct cost materials. You’ll play a key part in supporting safe operations, maintaining quality standards, and contributing to continuous improvement across the site.
About You.
What you’ll be doing.
- Managing data integrity and day‑to‑day operation of inventory systems.
- Coordinating availability, storage, handling, and flow of direct cost materials.
- Supporting health and safety culture through proactive hazard identification and incident reporting.
- Maintaining inventory stock levels, including cycle counts and material reconciliations.
- Ensuring compliance with GMP, HACCP, Food Safety and Quality Management Systems.
- Conducting internal audits and maintaining documentation such as Work Instructions and Standard Work.
- Managing First Time Accuracy (FTA) for materials receipt and resolving inventory sync issues.
- Preparing monthly reporting for production, quality, and cold storage.
- Participating in Continuous Improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities and sustaining improvements.
- Supporting coordination of dry store stock rotation, logistics, and just‑in‑time deliveries.
- Engaging across multiple departments including Production, Quality, Coldstore, Maintenance, and Supplier partners.
What you’ll need to be successful.
- Experience in supply chain and inventory management.
- Tertiary qualification in a relevant field (preferred but not essential).
- Working knowledge of manufacturing processes, Food Safety (HACCP), GMP, and environmental or warehouse management systems.
- Strong organisational, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, solve problems logically, and work independently.
- Competence in documentation, reporting, and technology systems.
- A continuous improvement mindset and the confidence to influence and support change.
- Strong computer literacy.
About the team.
This role is part of the Timaru Manufacturing team and works closely with Production, Quality, Coldstore, Agronomy, Maintenance, and Supply Chain functions. You will collaborate daily with leaders, frontline teams, and external suppliers to ensure materials are managed safely, efficiently, and in line with compliance standards.
About McCain.
Click Here to learn more about McCain and how we provide you with opportunities to make an impact that matters.
Leadership principles.
At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.
The McCain experience.
We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.
#LI-AK1
*We've got it covered! No external agency support is required and unsolicited CVs will not be considered.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Division: ANZ
Department: Timaru Potato Production
Location(s): NZ - New Zealand : Canterbury : Timaru
Company: McCain Foods (NZ) Limited