Fonterra Edendale
Fonterra Edendale is one of 26 manufacturing sites operated by Fonterra in New Zealand. Edendale is located 40km north of Invercargill and is part of the booming dairy industry within the lower South Island. Edendale is located close to national parks, ski fields, lakes and rivers.
Our site employs more than 400 staff and has the capacity to process more than 11 million litres of milk per day. Capital investments of $212 million will make Edendale the biggest milk processing site in the world.
Did you know?
- We collect enough milk for five billion milkshakes per year
- Last season our tankers travelled 9.2 million kilometres
- We produce enough cheese each day for 500,000 dozen cheese rolls
Why work with Fonterra?
- Health, safety and wellbeing of our employees is a top priority.
- We're one of the top two Fast Moving Consumer Goods businesses in New Zealand.
- We offer opportunities in fields as diverse as farm management, manufacturing, food science, innovation and research, marketing, sales, information technology and finance.
- The nature of your work will be diverse and challenging, and we focus on learning and development to build your personal capabilities.
- You'll be working alongside people of the highest calibre. We value individuals with a '˜can-do' mentality who are ambitious and innovative in their thinking.
- We recognise and reward high-performing employees.
- We focus on learning and development to build personal capabilities.
- We can offer international assignments around the globe.
- Dairy is a growth sector with exciting new products and markets being created all the time.
People we need at Edendale
We are looking for innovative people to help drive continuous improvement and maintain our competitive advantage.
Growth in the dairy industry means we have ongoing requirements for Supervisory and Management positions, Tanker Operators, Packing and Process Operators, Tradespersons, Engineers and Technologists.

