About Number 8 Bio
Methane is the “fast lever” of climate change. It’s 80x more potent than CO2, and 2.6 billion cows and sheep are belching it out every single day. At Number 8 Bio, we’ve figured out how to stop that – by developing methane inhibiting products for cattle and sheep.
We’re a VC-backed team of scientists and innovators turning wasted methane into animal performance (good for farmers 🤝 good for the planet). We’re moving from the lab to the market, and we need hands-on Manufacturing Operators to build the products that are going to save the planet, one bolus at a time.
Fixed Term Part time or Casual Roles Available
The Role: Hands-On Builder, Boots on the Factory Floor
You’ll be at the coalface of turning our science into a real, physical product — running the equipment that makes our bolus, then helping the formulation team push the next version further. Some days you’re following SOPs to the letter on the manufacturing line; other days you’re prototyping a new formulation or rigging up an equipment experiment with the team.
You will:
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Run the line: Operate manual, bench-scale equipment to manufacture our bolus product, following SOPs precisely — quality and consistency matter.
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Build what’s next: Work alongside our formulation and manufacturing team to prototype new formulations and test new equipment setups.
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Keep the warehouse humming: Handle stocktakes, general inventory, and warehouse cleaning — a tidy warehouse is a fast warehouse.
- good ideas to incrementally improve production processes (move stations, optimise stations etc.).
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Spot the better way: Bring your ideas for moving stations, optimising layouts, and shaving time off the process — we want incremental improvements to come from the floor, not just from the top down.
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Make things work: Use your practical skills to modify, build, and improve equipment setup, or from adapting existing machinery to helping create new solutions for our manufacturing processes.
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Get things where they need to go: Use your own car (mileage covered) for the occasional delivery or pick-up on our behalf.
Who You Are
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Proactive: You have a bias for action — you spot what needs doing and you do it, without waiting to be asked.
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Hands-on by nature: Whether you’re a recent grad in formulation science or chemical engineering, or an experienced manufacturing operator, you’d rather be building something real than reading about it.
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A team player: You’re happy following an SOP one minute and problem-solving with the team the next.
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Physically capable: Comfortable with labour-intensive work — lifting up to 20kg and operating machinery is part of the job.
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Licensed and mobile: You hold a current driver’s licence and have access to a car.
The “Nice-to-Haves”
- You’ve got a forklift licence
- You enjoy building things and are good with power tools
- You’ve worked in a lab, pilot plant, or manufacturing environment before
All of the above are a big plus but mostly, we care about your attitude and your work ethic — the rest we can teach.
Why Number 8 Bio?
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Real Impact: No greenwashing. Real science-backed methane reduction.
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High Autonomy: You aren’t a cog in a machine. You help shape how we manufacture at scale.
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The Future: We are tackling one of the biggest problems on Earth. It’s hard, it’s exciting, and it’s important.
Ready to build the future of agriculture with us?
