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:
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
We're looking for an experienced Manufacture Operator to join the Acid Plant team at our Christchurch Works site where we manufacture, process and despatch fertiliser. You'll work alongside the Acid Plant Engineers to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the Sulphur Melter and Acid Plant, with a mix of hands-on operational tasks and plant data recording. You'll also transfer raw material using a loader. This role is a gateway to an Acid plant engineer position and has great scope for growing your career. By ensuring safe and efficient plant performance we're best placed to help our farmers/shareholders.
The role is on a rostered shift basis and will include some rostered weekend work.
Given the work environment and nature of the role, it's essential you're physically fit, and mechanically minded. Ideally, you'll be comfortable at the controls of a loader and/or a forklift, but if not, we can provide the training to get you there if you have a positive, can-do attitude.
To be successful in the role, you will ideally:
Click on the 'Apply' button to submit your CV and covering letter.
Applications close on Sunday 20 September 2026.
Ravensdown is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug test.
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.
