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Kiwifruit Orchard Maintenance

Payment: Paid Position ($24 + 8%)
Location: Edgecumbe
Region: Rotorua & Bay of Plenty
Experience: No Experience Necessary
Listing Added: 24/10/2026
Company: JC Contracting Services Ltd.

Hi everyone! 👋

We’re looking for 2 reliable backpackers to join our team for kiwifruit orchard maintenance work in Edgecumbe, Bay of Plenty.

📅 Start date: Tuesday 27 October

🌱 What the work involves:

  • Graft care
  • Cane training
  • Weed removal
  • Leader work
  • General kiwifruit orchard maintenance

🌿 Keen to learn? You’ll gain hands-on experience and learn lots about kiwifruit plants and how they’re grown!

💰 Pay: $24 per hour + 8% holiday pay

✅ Requirements:

  • Good enough English to understand and follow instructions (Spanish speakers are also considered)
  • Your own reliable transport
  • Minimum commitment of 1 month
  • Physically fit and comfortable bending, climbing ladders and working outdoors in the sun. Some blocks have young plants with little or no shade.

🚐 Ideally, we’re looking for a couple or two friends travelling together in a van who can relocate to the Edgecumbe area easily.

☀️ Please note: Work is weather-dependent.

📩 Interested? Send me a WhatApp with a little bit about yourselves,  and your availability +64225087611

Thanks 

 

Karina 

JC Contracting 

 

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