Injury Prevention Advisor

Te Tūranga | About the Role

Silver Fern Farms is looking for an Injury Prevention Advisor to strengthen our focus on proactive health, injury prevention, and safer work design. You’ll travel regularly to our sites across NZ to deliver work focused on reducing injuries, improving wellbeing, and embedding best-practices.

You’ll deliver key programmes such as Move Well, our musculoskeletal training programme, designed to reduce the risk of work-related pain, discomfort and injury, such as sprains and strains, while advising on broader health promotion initiatives including conditioning, fatigue, and physical wellbeing.

Additionally, you’ll work closely with leaders, site teams, and the wider HSW function to support projects, strengthen standards, and uplift capability across the business.

This role is fixed-term, based from our Dunedin Hub, covering parental leave for a year. We are looking for someone to join the team from January 2026.

Key Responsibilities cover:

Project Support & Delivery

• Travel regularly to sites to deliver training, consultation, and programme rollout
• Support projects such as Early Intervention, Move Well, ergonomics, and health promotion
• Monitor programme effectiveness and recommend enhancements
• Provide flexibility to support broader HSW projects when needed

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Performance

• Promote and embed best practice injury prevention approaches
• Analyse injury and illness trends to identify risk areas and action mitigations into programmes
• Partner with leaders on corrective actions and improvement initiatives
• Ensure compliance with Ora Standards, policies, and relevant legislation

Systems & Risk Management

• Provide advice and training on relevant systems (e.g., iLeader, our data management system, and Soter, a wearable technology that provides ergonomic safety insights)
• Apply risk-management principles in all decision making
• Support sites to develop local programmes and management plans
• Role model safe behaviours, including fitness for work and reporting

Ōu Pūkenga | About You

You’re an advocate for safer, healthier work and bring practical expertise in injury prevention, ergonomics, and health promotion. You know how to build trust, influence people, and translate data into meaningful improvements.

This role would suit a recent graduate of physiotherapy, physical education, or other sports science or health related programme.

You will bring:

• Knowledge and experience in health promotion and exercise prescription, with an understanding of injury prevention strategies. 
• Technology competency - proficiency in the learning of and use of technology and systems 
• Analytical ability, including interpreting injury/illness data
• Self starter, and capable of working independently and autonomously
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
• Ability to travel nationally as required
• Current NZ Class 1 driver licence
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and HSW best practice

You’ll be joining a highly committed HSW team, working across a diverse operational network where your impact will be meaningful, visible, and valued. We offer ongoing development, national exposure, and the opportunity to shape safer, healthier work for thousands of people.

Tono Mai | How to Apply

If you’re passionate about creating safer, healthier workplaces and want to make a tangible difference across our national network, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now with your CV and a cover letter. 

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews will begin as we identify each suitable candidate. Advertising will close by Wednesday 17 December but may close earlier if we identify an ideal applicant – apply now to ensure you are considered.

Our aim is to make an offer prior to the end of 2025, with a January start date.

Silver Fern Farms welcomes people from all backgrounds and walks of life. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive environment and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all team members and applicants. Come and create goodness together with us. You can see more about our commitments to our people and their work by visiting our Belong Here webpage: https://careers.silverfernfarms.com/nz/en/belong-here