Compliance and HR Manager

At Gilmours Hamilton we are out here to prove we are the foodservice provider you can trust.

Make your mark in a hands-on role that spans compliance and HR. You’ll help lift health & safety, food safety, and operational discipline across the site—while supporting leaders and teams with practical HR coordination.

Role split: approximately 70% Compliance (H&S / food safety / operational compliance) and 30% HR support.

Summary

• Role: Compliance Manager & HR Coordinator
• Location: Gilmours Hamilton
• Hours: 8:00am–5:00pm, Monday to Friday
• Pay: Hourly rate, based on experience and qualifications
• Focus: 70% compliance (H&S / Food Safety / Operational), 30% HR coordination

We’re looking for a Compliance Manager & HR Coordinator who can partner with leaders and teams to keep our site safe, audit-ready, and running to standard- while also helping deliver great people outcomes. You’ll be a visible presence on the floor, confident coaching teams, following up actions, and making sure our systems are practical and working in the real world.

About the role

• Champion a positive safety culture across the team by leading by example, recognising safe behaviours, and driving continuous improvement.
• Coach leaders and team members to build safe work practices and strong food safety discipline, with a focus on practical, floor-based support.
• Own and coordinate site compliance across Health & Safety, Food Safety, and Relevant operational requirements, ensuring Gilmours Hamilton is audit-ready at all times.
• Maintain and improve H&S and food safety systems (documentation, registers, checklists, training records) and support internal/external audits and corrective actions.
• Coordinate compliance training and competency tracking (inductions, refreshers, toolbox talks), ensuring expectations are understood across departments.
• Work closely with H&S Representatives and leaders, supporting meetings, actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage incident reporting and follow-up, support investigations, and coordinate return-to-work/rehabilitation plans as required.
• Support HR administration and coordination: onboarding, employment documentation, systems updates, training and maintaining accurate people records.
• Follow up reported hazards, corrective actions, and site safety observations—closing the loop and embedding learning.
• Provide day-to-day HR support to leaders and team members (policy guidance, basic ER queries, wellbeing support), escalating to the wider People team when needed.
• Support key site processes including product withdrawals/recalls (where applicable) and complaint follow-up, ensuring actions are documented and completed.

 What we offer

• Development opportunities designed to grow future leaders across Gilmours and the wider Foodstuffs network.
• A supportive leadership team and a role with real influence across safety, compliance, and people outcomes.
• A culture that recognizes and rewards hard work, initiative, and results.
• Hourly rate review after 12 months’ service (subject to performance and business guidelines).
• Company phone plan provided (BYO handset).
• Staff discount: 5%.
• Long service leave (in line with company policy).

About you

• Proven experience in Health & Safety, Food Safety, Compliance, and/or quality systems—ideally in FMCG, distribution, logistics, or retail.
• A solid understanding of NZ health & safety and food safety requirements, with confidence working to standards and audit expectations.
• Comfortable handling HR coordination tasks (onboarding, documentation, systems and reporting) and supporting leaders with day-to-day people queries.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with a wide range of people on the floor and in leadership.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and discretion when handling sensitive information.

Why this role

You’ll have a genuine opportunity to make practical improvements, influence daily behaviours, and strengthen both compliance and people processes in a busy wholesale environment.

 About us

We’re Foodies and we’re an unbeatable team of over 22,000 New Zealanders, who are making sure New Zealanders get more out of life. We believe that everyone who calls New Zealand home, or comes to visit us, deserves to enjoy more of what matters most to them.

For nearly 100 years we have built up a network of almost 350 (And still growing) PAK’nSAVE, New World, Four Square and Gilmours stores, conveniently located where our customers need us to be, from the top to the very bottom of the North Island.

Local grocers own and operate every one of our stores and are committed to delivering what’s right for our customers and communities. When we say local, we mean it, they live in the community, stock the products their customers want and support the local community groups.

Our people make our business what it is. We are focused on making sure every single one of our team has what they need to unleash their own potential. Part of this is also making sure members of the Foodies team have purposeful careers and bright futures, that’s why most of our owner operators come from within the cooperative.

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

Applicants will be fielded as applications come through and interviews will start before the end date. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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