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General Information

Job Type
Permanent
Business
Higgins
Location
Christchurch
Job Reference
39331
Posted Date
21-Mar-2025
Closing Date
18-Apr-2025

Description

Join The Green Team at our Christchurch Asphalt Plant and take your career to the next level! We’re on the lookout for a full-time Loader Operator to be part of a tight-knit crew that produces up to 1,250 tonnes of asphalt daily using cutting-edge technology.

  • Grow and develop in a supportive team who treat each other like Whanau
  • Great Pay & Perks - competitive hourly rate plus awesome benefits for you and your family 
  • Brand new PPE gear - we'll kit you out with top-quality safety gear

About the role

If you enjoy hands-on work and either have loader operating experience or are keen to learn, this is the perfect role for you! We’ll train you from the ground up, giving you the skills to operate heavy machinery safely and efficiently.


What you’ll bring to the role

  • Full class 2 licence - WTR Bonus with F endorsement
  • Previous experience operating loaders and different plant machinery
  • A safety-first attitude – for yourself and the public
  • Team player who is physically fit 
  • Flexible, committed and reliable – will turn up rain or shine
  • Passion for our industry and the willingness to learn

Higgins is a leading roading and civil infrastructure company in New Zealand. We are on a dynamic growth path with people at the heart of what we do every day. We offer a great working environment, competitive hourly rate, subsidised medical insurance and subsidised education and training for you and your dependants.

Higgins is committed to a drug-free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to pass pre-employment drug and alcohol testing along with a health check – you’ll need to be fit for work!

Applicants for this position must have NZ residency or a valid NZ work visa.

Building better roads for safer journeys – He pai ake te hanga o ngā rori, kia haumaru ai ngā haerenga

Research shows that females and minority groups don’t always apply for roles unless they match 100% of the requirements. So, if this role is of interest but you feel you don’t quite fit, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are enriched by many nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.