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Employment Opportunity - Kaitiaki Forester, Hawkes Bay.

GPFS are looking for a dedicated and reliable individual to join our dynamic forestry, agricultural, and rural fire team.

This position offers a scope of varying services to work in a hands-on environment, contributing to critical operations related to forestry, agriculture, and rural fire operational services, with the opportunity to extend on current experience and qualifications.

GPFS value initiative, productivity, passion and drive within these industries and the willingness to grow into a leadership role.

Key Responsibilities:

📌 Assist in the management and maintenance of forestry and agricultural operations

📌 Support rural fire operations, ensuring safety and efficiency

📌 Operate and maintain 4WD vehicles in various environments

📌 Show initiative in problem-solving and decision-making

📌 Work collaboratively with a team to achieve operational goals

📌 Maintain a high level of productivity and quality in all tasks

📌 Adhere to safety protocols and industry standards at all times

Required Expectations for the role:

✅️ Full, valid driver’s licence

✅️ Experience and/or qualifications in forestry (primarily silviculture) and/or agriculture is preferred

✅️ 4WD vehicle and UTV experience

✅️ Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

✅️ Pre-employment drug testing required, as this is a zero-tolerance professional environment.

Preferred Attributes to make you stand out from the rest:

🔥 Leadership potential with a drive to grow into a operation managers position

🔥 Strong work ethic, reliability, integrity, accountability and productivity

🔥 A passion for working as a kaitiaki (guardian) of the land to protect our forestry, agriculture, and rural fire industries in growth and sustainability

🔥 Commitment to health and safety, upskilling and operational excellence.

If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and are eager to develop in your career, we encourage you to apply.

Apply now!

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Past or Current Workers

What were/are the best things about working with GPFS?

One of the best things about working for GPFS is the variety of work and training we receive. There are always new things happening which keeps us entertained and on our toes, there are always new things to learn and do to further develop our skill sets!

The family oriented business makes it easy and enjoyable to work for!

What was/has been one of the biggest challenges about the work?

The nature of the work isn’t always easy, there are both easy and hard jobs to do. Some of the biggest challenges were pushing through a tough job or coming up with a way to do things to solve a problem.

What’s one of the biggest things you learned when working with GPFS?

I have learnt a lot of new skills while working with GPFS, they have trained me up in any area I wanted to develop in and pushed me to develop myself.

What were/are the best things about working with GPFS?

Being able to work outdoors in a good team learning the skills needed to progress yourself to the next level. Kevin is a good teacher and doesn’t leave out any information that you’ll need to learn. Being able to make a difference too was one of the best things about working with GPFS; this was mainly planting native plants and being able to create a good habitat for animals if in the future animals were to live there.

What was/has been one of the biggest challenges about the work?

Walking up and down hills constantly but it is something you will adapt to. Also being able to keep track with the invoicing as there is a wide range of jobs that you do which is good because it keeps you on your feet and interested in the work. Time management is a skill that you’ll learn because you’ll need to keep an invoice going.

What’s one of the biggest things you learned when working with GPFS?

That planting isn’t just planting. There is a heap to do with planting from spraying to how to plant a plant correctly, isn’t just a hole in the ground. Also what goes into keeping a forest alive and well to be able to get a good harvest. Also I loved learning about fencing and how to do it. When it comes to pest control I didn’t know how many plants were not good plants. Once learning some of these you’re forever looking to see if you can see any around.

My favourite job was the fire service. Learned a heap about how a fire works from before it ignites to the type of flame and how it spreads. You learn how to put it out also then how to aid for keeping the fire extinguished.

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