Ravensdown

Environmental Advisor

Ravensdown  •  Christchurch, NZ (Onsite)  •  14 days ago
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Job Description

We're looking for a motivated Environmental Advisor to join our Environment, Sustainability and Safety team.

Reporting to the National Environmental Manager, you'll support our Environmental Business Partners and operational teams to implement, maintain and continually improve environmental and risk management systems across our network.

This is a varied, hands-on role where you'll help our sites meet their environmental responsibilities, support resource consent compliance, maintain accurate environmental and sustainability data, and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

What You'll Do

  • Support environmental monitoring and reporting across air, surface and groundwater, wastewater, solid waste and hazardous substances.
  • Assist with resource consent applications, monitoring, reporting and ongoing compliance requirements.
  • Maintain accurate environmental and sustainability data
  • Interpret environmental legislation, regional and district plans, national regulations, technical data and reports.
  • Work alongside operational teams to ensure environmental considerations are incorporated into site projects and improvements.
  • Support the maintenance of our carbon inventory and progress towards emissions reduction targets.
  • Build positive relationships with councils, contractors, iwi, local communities and other key stakeholders.
  • Respond to environmental enquiries and complaints in a timely and professional way.

What You'll Bring

  • A relevant degree-level qualification.
  • Knowledge of New Zealand environmental regulations and policies.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret technical information, identify trends and produce high-quality reports.
  • Good project management, organisation and digital skills.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build credibility at all levels.
  • The ability to manage competing priorities and make considered judgements under pressure.

Benefits

In return for your skills, we offer a very competitive package that includes an array of insurances, phone, laptop, and company clothing allowance, plus excellent training opportunities in a supportive cooperative environment.

How to apply: Create a profile and submit your CV and Cover letter.

Applications Close: 06 October 2026

About the company

Ravensdown as a co-operative is all about essential farm inputs, and smart people using smart tools with the latest science in mind and our shareholders’ interests at heart.

Our work is guided by strong values that shape how we operate every day:

We Connect | Whanaungatanga

We Respect | Kaitiakitanga

We Deliver | Kotahitanga

These values are central to our culture and are actively lived, recognised, and celebrated across the organisation.

We are an integral part of the food creation process. We are the only co-operative that tests for, advises about, buys, ships, stores, spreads, measures and maps food creating nutrients and fertiliser in a truly integrated way.

Using technology, science, and smart people, we work in partnership with our farmers to provide the nutrients and agronomic solutions they need, together with innovative environmental products and services.

Through this, we are committed to Smarter farming for a better New Zealand, Ka pūkekotia a Rongomātāne, ka poho kererū a Aotearoa

Ravensdown is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug and alcohol test.

Ravensdown

About Ravensdown

Forged in 1977 from farmers’ determination to resist large corporations snapping up assets in the farming sector. Today, Ravensdown exists to enable smarter farming for a better New Zealand. As a farmer-owned co-operative, our products, expertise and technology help farmers reduce environmental impacts and optimise value from the land.

Whether it’s food grown for livestock or for humans, we are an integral part of the food creation process. We are the only co-operative on the planet that tests for, advises about, buys, ships, stores, spreads, measures and maps food-creating nutrients and fertiliser in a truly integrated way. We also provide products and services in environmental mitigation, agronomy and animal health sectors.

From scientists to sales staff, engineers to IT experts, the diverse team is focused on a common goal: to enable smarter farming for a better New Zealand by delivering quality agri-products, technologies and services.

When it comes to the growing prosperity of New Zealand, stronger rural communities and a progressive environmentally considerate agri-sector, Ravensdown is part of the solution.

Industry
Agriculture & Forestry
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Christchurch, NZ
Year Founded
1977
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