We’re looking for an Animal Nutritionist – Poultry (Monogastric) to join our clients technical team and help drive nutritional excellence, product quality, and continuous improvement across their feed solutions. Join a family run business, where you'll become family as opposed to a number. Located in West Auckland, and close to the motoryway on ramp/off ramp. 

Are you passionate about animal nutrition, poultry performance, and developing innovative, cost-effective feed solutions? Do you enjoy combining scientific expertise with practical problem-solving to make a measurable difference to animal health, feed quality, and business performance?

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded nutrition professional who wants to apply their knowledge, work collaboratively across the business, and help deliver practical solutions that meet the evolving needs of customers and the poultry industry.

The opportunity

Reporting to the Technical Manager, you’ll play a key role in developing, evaluating, and optimising poultry feed formulations that balance nutritional requirements, animal performance, ingredient availability, feed safety, and commercial objectives.

Working closely with Technical, Quality, Research & Development, Procurement, Production, and Sales teams, you’ll help ensure our formulations are accurate, compliant, cost-effective, and consistently meet customer and industry requirements.

From analysing raw materials and refining feed formulations to investigating nutritional challenges and supporting product development, your work will contribute directly to the quality and performance of our feed solutions.

What you’ll be responsible for

Poultry nutrition and feed formulation

• Develop, review, and optimise poultry feed formulations to meet nutritional specifications, performance targets, quality standards, and cost objectives.
• Analyse raw materials, ingredients, premixes, laboratory results, and finished feed data to support sound nutritional decisions.
• Maintain accurate formulation databases, ingredient matrices, nutrient specifications, and technical records.
• Identify and investigate nutritional discrepancies, ingredient variability, and feed performance issues, recommending practical solutions.

Feed quality, safety, and compliance

• Ensure formulations and products meet applicable feed safety requirements, regulatory standards, quality systems, and internal procedures.
• Verify nutrient specifications, feed additive inclusion levels, product labels, batch information, and relevant species-specific safety requirements.
• Escalate non-conformances, ingredient quality concerns, formulation errors, and potential feed safety risks promptly.
• Support traceability, technical documentation, quality assurance, and consistent manufacturing outcomes.

Technical collaboration and continuous improvement

• Partner with Procurement, Quality, Production, Sales, and Account Management to deliver reliable technical support and meet customer needs.
• Contribute to product development, nutritional trials, research activities, and formulation improvements.
• Identify opportunities to improve feed efficiency, ingredient utilisation, formulation accuracy, and cost effectiveness.
• Communicate technical findings and nutritional recommendations clearly to colleagues, customers, suppliers, and other industry stakeholders.

Professional development and innovation

• Keep up to date with advances in poultry nutrition, nutritional science, feed technology, regulatory requirements, and industry best practice.
• Participate in relevant training, research, trials, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build your technical capability while contributing to the ongoing development of our nutritional solutions.

What you’ll bring

You’ll be a scientifically minded, detail-oriented professional who combines strong nutritional knowledge with a practical, commercially aware approach.

Ideally, you’ll bring:

• A relevant qualification in Animal Nutrition, Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Science, or a related discipline.
• Knowledge of poultry nutrition, monogastric physiology, feed formulation, and ingredient nutritional characteristics.
• An understanding of feed safety, quality assurance, nutritional specifications, and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret nutritional data and translate findings into practical recommendations.
• Confidence using formulation software, spreadsheets, databases, ERP systems, or other technical tools.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy.
• Clear communication skills and a collaborative approach to working with technical, operational, and commercial teams.
• A proactive attitude, a strong sense of accountability, and a genuine commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

Experience in commercial feed formulation, premix development, feed manufacturing, or poultry nutrition would be an advantage.

Why join us?

This role offers the opportunity to put your technical expertise to work in an environment where nutritional accuracy, product quality, and practical innovation matter.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Make a meaningful impact on poultry nutrition, feed quality, and production performance.
• Solve real-world challenges by balancing nutritional science, ingredient variability, and commercial priorities.
• Work across disciplines with experienced colleagues in technical, quality, research, procurement, production, and sales functions.
• Contribute to innovation through formulation development, trials, and continuous improvement.
• Continue growing professionally by strengthening your technical expertise and staying connected with developments across the animal nutrition industry.

Ready to make an impact?

If you’re passionate about poultry nutrition, enjoy solving complex technical challenges, and want to help deliver high-quality, effective feed solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and take the next step in your animal nutrition career.

Please submit your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience, technical strengths, and interest in poultry nutrition.