Are you fit, strong and passionate about protecting the native species of New Zealand? We are!
We are dedicated to our people and foster a safe, high-performance work culture. Epro offers a rewarding environmental career with an industry leading, family run company for fit and motivated people that want to make a difference for New Zealand’s native species and farming future.
We invest heavily in our staff to ensure that they are supported in their environmental careers with great training skill sets. Below are some of the qualifications our highly skilled team complete and maintain.
June/July 2026:
Keep the gear, stock and fleet moving for one of NZ’s leading conservation and predator control businesses
Epro is one of New Zealand’s leading conservation and predator control businesses, focused on saving our forests, farms and native species. With a reputation built on technical excellence, innovation and decades of operational knowhow, our nationwide work spans aerial and ground-based pest control, specialist advisory, research and industry development. We’re proudly Kiwi, proudly practical and always looking for ways to do things better.
We’re now looking for a methodical, well-organised Inventory Controller to join our team in the Taupō depot. If you take pride in running a tight ship, with accurate records, well-maintained gear, and stock where it needs to be when it needs to be there, this role puts you at the engine room of our operations.
About the role
The Inventory Controller makes sure our operations teams have the resources they need, when they need them. You’ll manage our stock, inventory and assets across multiple concurrent projects, playing a crucial part in the delivery of pest control programmes nationwide.
Reporting to the General Manager, you’ll work closely with our management, operations and administration teams to keep our aerial, ground and survey programmes fully resourced, from PPE and equipment through to toxins, vehicles and trailers. You’ll follow good process and bring your own ideas too, helping develop our systems with a collaborative, continuous improvement approach.
You will be an integral part of the Operations delivery team, being able to on occasion work outside of standard hours and on weekends, ensuring that when the weather is good the trucks are loaded, and the teams have what they need to deliver in the narrow operational windows. You will be able to travel away for short periods on occasion to assist with the delivery of aerial and ground operations, making this hands-on role that provides variety and an opportunity to work on the front lines of conservation in New Zealand, across diverse landscapes. As such a good level of fitness is required.
The role is based at our Taupō depot, Monday to Friday, 7.30am to 4.00pm, but as mentioned some irregular hours and occasional project or field work may be required from time to time, so a degree of flexibility is important.
What you’ll be doing
Stock and Inventory Control
• Proactively keeping inventory and equipment at optimal levels by sourcing, procuring and replenishing PPE, uniforms and equipment.
• Managing all stock movements in and out of the depot, with accurate checking, documentation and allocation to jobs.
• Maintaining toxin storage, VTA tracking documents and full compliance with the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996.
• Completing quarterly stocktakes, bait sampling and temperature recording to client specifications, and monthly work papers and KPI reports to deadline.
Asset and Fleet Management
• Recording and auditing the issue of plant, equipment and staff assets, with KPI reporting to the management team.
• Keeping the fleet compliant and operational: vehicle servicing, WOFs, registrations, trailer compliance and heavy vehicle certification.
• Acting as the point of contact for our vehicle lease provider, including fuel cards.
• Identifying and procuring new assets as needed, including vehicles, machinery and trailers.
Depot, Safety and Compliance
• Maintaining a clean, tidy, secure and safe depot, coordinating contractor inspections and maintenance.
• Undertaking health and safety audits, inspections and evacuation drills, and keeping first aid kits and fire extinguishers compliant.
• Being a visible health and safety leader who helps build our culture of safety.
Operations and Engagement
• Supporting field teams with the tools, equipment and toxins they need to deliver outstanding operations.
• Assisting with landowner liaison and signup tasks for agreed projects, and engaging professionally with clients, suppliers and the community.
• Assisting with field staff training in your areas of expertise, and recommending improvements to assets, systems and processes.
What we’re looking for
You’ll be structured, organised and systematic: someone who follows process, keeps accurate records and meets deadlines without being chased. You’ll be confident with numbers and computers, comfortable in Word, Excel and stock or database systems, and quick to pick up new programmes. You’ll communicate clearly with colleagues, suppliers and landowners, delegate when needed, and respond positively when operational plans change. Above all, you’ll be a team player who takes genuine pride in keeping the operation running smoothly behind the scenes.
Key skills and experience
• Proven experience in stock and inventory management.
• Experience in asset management, ideally including vehicles, plant and equipment.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and database or stock systems, with accurate data entry and reporting.
• Excellent planning, organisation and time management across multiple concurrent demands.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A systems mindset, with the ability to develop, implement and improve processes.
• Flexibility to work irregular hours from time to time when operations require it.
• A full driver’s licence. Dangerous goods and forklift endorsements, a Certified Handler Certificate, Controlled Substances Licence and first aid certification are a real advantage, or we’ll support you to obtain them.
• Conservation interests or experience: this work will genuinely appeal to someone who cares about protecting our native species.
Why join Epro?
We’re a tight-knit team that values professionalism, initiative and positive relationships, and you’ll be joining a company that cares about quality, invests in innovation and supports its people to grow. Your work won’t sit in the background. It keeps wheels spinning, field teams equipped and conservation outcomes happening across Aotearoa, protecting our forests, farms and native species.
Ready to apply?
If you’re excited by the idea of running the engine room for conservation programmes that make a tangible difference across Aotearoa, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now with your CV and a brief cover letter HERE
Help save our forests, farms and native species with one of Aotearoa’s leading conservation and predator control businesses
Epro is one of New Zealand’s leading conservation and predator control businesses, focused on saving our forests, farms and native species. With a reputation built on technical excellence, innovation and decades of operational knowhow, our nationwide work spans aerial and ground-based pest control, specialist advisory, research and industry development. We’re proudly Kiwi, proudly practical and always looking for ways to do things better.
We’re now looking for a capable, detail-driven GIS specialist to join our team in Taupō. If you love turning spatial data into practical outcomes and want your project designs to drive real operations in the field, not sit in a report, this is a role where you’ll shine.
About the role
This is a hands-on role at the heart of our operational planning and delivery, and you’ll be Epro’s GIS point person, providing support across our ground and aerial services. You’ll provide in-house GIS services across the business, planning, measuring, costing and mapping pest control programmes that are delivered using ground staff, UAV and helicopters, from initial design through to delivery and reporting. As the GIS lead in the office, you’ll be working with and upskilling our other GIS capable project managers, directing development projects with our external GIS consultants, and directing our operational and field team’s spatial data collection, troubleshooting, constantly improving our systems, and bringing others up with you.
A key part of the role is preparing permission applications for our operations, producing the supporting mapping and working alongside our operations team to liaise with clients, Public Health Units and the Department of Conservation as applications progress. You’ll also support aerial pesticide operations directly, running ArcGIS Pro ModelBuilder tools on site, in remote locations and on your own initiative. Your work will directly enable operations across some of New Zealand’s most significant conservation and remote farming landscapes.
This role is based fulltime at our Taupō office. GIS field work is weather dependent, so the ability to work weekends and be flexible with your hours is a must, when conditions are right, operations go.
What you’ll be doing
GIS and Mapping
• Producing accurate, high-quality operational and planning maps for pest control programmes nationwide.
• Measuring treatment areas, boundaries, buffers and exclusion zones to support programme planning.
• Maintaining and improving Epro’s spatial data, layers and mapping systems.
Planning and Costing Support
• Supporting operational planning with spatial analysis and project design.
• Providing measurements and spatial outputs that feed accurate costings, tenders and proposals.
• Writing post-operational reports and producing mapping and spatial reporting for clients and contract deliverables.
Operational and Field Support
• Running ArcGIS Pro and ModelBuilder tools at aerial pesticide operations, sometimes offline, in remote locations and working independently.
• Supporting mobile field data collection through ArcGIS Field Maps, building maps and forms, managing offline areas and data flows, and keeping field teams running.
• Troubleshooting on the spot: offline area downloads that won’t work, device syncing, firewalls and connectivity issues, you’ll be the friendly and calm voice when something goes wrong with data collection in the field.
• Maintaining data quality across field-collected and office datasets, regularly auditing, repairing and training data sets to ensure reliability and accuracy.
• Opportunity for practical field experience to assist in the designing and delivery of pest control operations, including field time that hones your skills and bridges the gap between technical and practical delivery.
GIS Leadership and Enablement
• Acting as Epro’s GIS point person, leading GIS in the office and directing the field team’s spatial data collection.
• Documenting workflows and teaching others, training and supporting field users and lifting the whole team’s capability.
• Interfacing with our external GIS developer and translating requirements and priorities between the developer, office and field teams.
Permission Applications and Liaison
• Preparing Ministry of Health and Department of Conservation permission applications for pest control operations, including all associated mapping, and supporting the team to capture the required information on the way through.
• Liaising with clients, Public Health Units and DOC throughout the application process.
• Tracking application progress, conditions and keeping the operations team informed.
What we’re looking for
You’ll be a confident GIS user, self-sufficient and enjoy learning and improving systems, with the communication skills to work directly with clients, agencies and our operational team. You’ll be genuinely IT and tech savvy: when an offline area download won’t work, a device won’t sync or a firewall gets in the way, you’ll dig in and sort it so the operational team can keep working effectively and smoothly. Just as importantly, you’ll have the characteristics of a leader and trainer: someone who enables others, documents and teaches what they know, and brings the team up with them. You’ll be a strong writer, post-operational reports and permission applications carry our name to clients and agencies, and yours will be clear, accurate and professionally presented. You’ll be organised, able to manage multiple jobs and deadlines at once, and a genuine team player who enjoys helping others deliver what’s needed on time.
Key skills and experience
• 3 plus years’ hands-on GIS experience completing similar tasks and will have transferrable skills.
• Proficiency with Esri technologies (ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online), including confidence running ModelBuilder tools in live operational settings.
• Working knowledge of ArcGIS Field Maps, or the troubleshooting mindset to master it quickly.
• Strong general IT skills and a troubleshooter’s instinct, comfortable resolving offline download, syncing, firewall and connectivity issues.
• Comfortable working as part of a team at remote operations and solving technical problems on the spot.
• The ability to document workflows and teach others, with a knack for lifting the people around you.
• Strong document writing skills, able to produce polished post-operational reports, permission applications and client-facing documents.
• Excellent verbal communication skills, including the ability to interface with a GIS developer and translate between technical, office and field audiences.
• A relevant tertiary level qualification in GIS, geography, environmental science or a related field.
• Strong attention to detail across spatial accuracy, measurement and map production.
• Sound planning, organisation and time management across multiple concurrent jobs.
• Flexibility and desire to go on adventures with us, which means sometimes working away and on weekends when our weather-dependent aerial operations work requires it.
• A proactive, practical and team-focused approach.
• Experience with Python scripting is an advantage.
• Conservation interests or experience, this work will genuinely appeal to someone who cares about protecting our native species, is physically fit and has some practical pest control knowledge, or who wants to learn, and is able to spend time in the field understanding the reality of using technical solutions in a remote bush environment.
Why join Epro?
You’ll be joining an award-winning, tight-knit Kiwi company that values professionalism, innovation and positive relationships. Your work will directly support meaningful environmental outcomes across Aotearoa — and you’ll have real influence in how we grow and evolve.
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