Class 5 Truck Drivers - Fixed Term and Casual
Apatu Farms are looking for Fixed Term and Casual Truck Drivers to join our Transport team for the 2026 Harvest Season. You must hold a clean, full Class 5 licence with Road Ranger gearbox experience preferrable.
Early January 2026 starts available.
About Us:
Apatu Farms are a leading, family-owned, Hawkes Bay agribusiness focused on growing quality produce for local and global customers. Our operations here in the Bay are very diverse, growing, transporting and exporting a variety of fruit and vegetables and supporting our various divisions with all their transporting requirements.
About the Opportunity:
Reporting to our Transport Manager you will help support our teams with transport requirements within the Hawkes Bay region.
Fixed Term roles have a guaranteed number of hours a week and will be on a rostered basis.Casual roles are flexible! This means we work together to work out times that work.
Some extra bits:
- Fixed term and Casual opportunities available.
- Based in the Hawkes Bay Region - from our Hastings site.
- Early January 2026 start date.
About you:
- Clean, Class 5 New Zealand licence or equivalent
- Previous experience operating manual (and/or Road Ranger gearbox) truck and trailer units
- Agricultural and/or an offroad environment experience is preferable
- Willing to get stuck in and work with a team
- Commitment to a safe and healthy workplace, and able to pass a pre-employment and random drug testing.
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