Job Description

EHS Coordinator

• Grow your career in Health & Safety career at Kraft Heinz!

• Collaborative and dynamic work environment

• Competitive salary package, annual bonus, and market leading benefits

Grow Your Health & Safety Career with Kraft Heinz!

Are you looking to grow your career in Health & Safety? Do you want to join a dynamic team with a proven track record of internal growth and career advancement opportunities? We have an exciting permanent opportunity for an EHS Coordinator to join our EHS team based out of Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

The Company

The Kraft Heinz Company is one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world, with eight $1 billion+ brands and global sales of approximately $25 billion. Our brands are truly global, with products produced and marketed in over 40 countries. These beloved products include condiments and sauces, cheese and dairy, meals, meats, refreshment beverages, coffee, infant and nutrition products, and numerous other grocery products in a portfolio of more than 200 legacy and emerging brands.

Key position responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Maintain and update health, safety and environmental (HSE) documents, records and policies so they are accurate and easy to access.

• Prepare and submit required monthly HSE reports.

• Run health and safety committee meetings and follow up actions to completion.

• Promote safe behaviours, including hazard identification and near-miss reporting.

• Ensure the site meets legal, regulatory and company HSE requirements.

• Maintain hazard and risk registers, and lead risk assessments to confirm controls are in place and working.

• Track audit, inspection and compliance findings, and drive corrective actions through to verified close-out.

• Support incident reporting and investigations, identify root causes, and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.

• Manage contractor safety processes, including inductions, approvals, review of safety plans, and monitoring on-site compliance.

• Support environmental compliance, including monitoring programs, hazardous substance records, improvement initiatives, and progress against site HSE objectives.

About you:

• Relevant Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) qualification and/or equivalent practical experience in a site-based role.

• Experience maintaining HSE documentation, records, and monthly reporting (including using reporting systems/tools).

• Strong working knowledge of legal and regulatory HSE compliance requirements and how to apply them on site.

• Demonstrated capability running risk assessments, maintaining risk registers, and verifying controls are effective.

• Experience leading or supporting audits/inspections, developing corrective action plans, and driving actions through to close-out.

• Proven incident reporting and investigation experience, including root cause analysis and tracking preventive actions.

• Contractor safety management experience (inductions, review of safety plans/method statements, and on-site compliance monitoring).

• Working knowledge of environmental compliance and hazardous substance management (inventories, monitoring, and improvement initiatives).

• Incident investigation, risk assessment and any environmental certification would be beneficial.

• Eligibility to work in NZ with full working rights.

Benefits of working with us

• Pay for Performance – industry leading variable compensation offerings tied to company and individual performance on top of a competitive base salary package

• Parental Leave – paid time off for both primary AND secondary caregivers

• Leave Options – Purchased leave, volunteer leave and LiveWell leave programs to give you even more flexibility to plan your life and spend time on causes that matter

• In House Training Programs

• Corporate Discount Programs 

Ready to make an Impact?

If you're passionate about Health & Safety, eager to learn, and enjoy working in a team environment, please submit your application. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close our job advertisements early.  

Location(s)

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.