Quarantine Officers and Detector Dog Handlers

Quarantine Officers and Detector Dog Handlers
Role type: Permanent, full-time
Location: Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland)
Starting salary: $70,130 per annum

About the Role – Kōrero mō te Tūranga
Our Quarantine Officers are highly trained, every-day New Zealanders doing an extraordinary job for their country. We work to ensure that cargo and passengers entering New Zealand are free of biosecurity risk. Officers work on a rotational roster that offers them a breadth of work as they lead New Zealand's biosecurity system at the front line - international airports, ports, mail centres, and cargo facilities.
As a Dog Handler, you will work with a specially trained dog as part of a team helping to detect risk products.
We are recruiting now for our next cohort of Quarantine Officers and Detector Dog Handlers to start on 5 October 2026.
Quarantine Officers work varied shifts Monday to Sunday inclusive. Actual hours of work are specific to the ro...