Careers
Operational careers
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Achieve more with us
We have a range of operational roles available at our sites across southern Australia, from entry level to leadership positions.
Our roles offer the opportunity for you to enjoy active work in a team, learn new skills and make your mark in a safe and supportive environment at one of our storage and handling sites.
These positions are available to those who have the unrestricted right to live and work in Australia.
We're looking for:
Build your skill sets with our entry level roles
Our operator roles offer the opportunity for you to enjoy active tasks with a team of work mates, learn new skills and have pride in what you do as part of a leading agriculture network, receiving local growers’ grain, storing it, and moving it to end use markets.
Each day as an operator will vary and can include tasks like testing and assessing grain, operating machinery to help trucks unload or load grain and working at different areas around site performing general tasks like cleaning. Meet operator Demi and find out what she’s learnt and loves about her role.
Make your mark on our operations with our leadership roles
Ideal for natural leaders, our leadership roles offer a platform to innovate for improvement while prioritising safety and achieving targets.
Benefit from diverse roles encompassing office based work, local travel, hands-on tasks, and collaboration with colleagues across our business.
Play a key role in the first steps of the global food supply chain, by ensuring we safely store and move the grain growers deliver to our sites. Meet Peter or Renee and read what they’ve achieved with our leadership roles.
Site supervisor roles - bring your passion for managing people and applying strategy across multiple sites to drive positive results
Oversee operations across your site group, working with local and statewide colleagues to find solutions for safely and efficiently receiving grain and moving it to port. Manage and support multiple people to achieve the best outcomes. Certain roles may offer relocation assistance.
Safety roles - bring your commitment to safety and have a direct impact on the wellbeing of your colleagues
Join a business that prioritises safety for our employees, customers and local communities before anything else. These roles require safety qualifications.
Hear from our people and their pathway in our operations
“I love Viterra’s safety culture, the people I get to work with and the opportunities to advance my career”
Peter Couper, Site Supervisor Rudall
No day is the same, which I love. I’m able to spend time forward planning and working towards our business’ overall strategy while also helping to solve problems and getting stuck in and helping my team perform tasks safely and efficiently. It’s a great combination of the two. Read more.
“I’m building a long-term career and gaining qualifications in a team I love”
Demi Elliott, Operator Tumby Bay
When I first applied for the operator role, I didn’t have much experience in agriculture, but now I’ve gained a better understanding of the industry which has helped me form better connections within my local community. Read more.
“I’ve progressed my career and skills at Viterra, with support from everyone I’ve worked with along the way”
Renee Dale, Operations Coordinator Thevenard
In a leadership role in Viterra’s operations, you feel a real sense of pride in the work you’re doing. You’re dealing with local growers’ businesses and livelihoods. You receive grain from the local farms and then help to send it all around the globe to feed people, it’s really incredible to be a part of. Read more.
What we do
Our business covers the whole supply chain from the farm gate through to delivering products to consumers in Australia and overseas.
We originate, store, handle, transport and market a range of agriculture commodities including grains, oilseeds, pulses and cotton.
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Enjoy the best of both
By joining Viterra’s operations, you can experience varied, active work where the day goes by quickly and less or no time at a desk.
But you’ll also be joining an established world-leading global agriculture company which has been operating in South Australia for more than 70 years, and benefit from:
- rigorous safety practices
- gender-inclusive paid parental leave
- health and wellbeing tools
- training and development
- a supportive environment which prioritises respect and teamwork.