Mrs Crombie, who is injury management and health and safety officer, outlined her job to groups of female shareholders attending the company's new Women's Workshops.
The aim was to strengthen Alliance Group's links with women shareholders in the Otago region.
The workshops, held last week at Pukeuri, offered practical learning opportunities, as well as providing a forum for those attending to hear more about the company.
Four of the plant's female employees spoke about their roles, including Mrs Crombie, who has worked at the plant for about 12 years.
She started in the shipping department and moved into IT. She started helping out with injury management and, when a job became available, she was keen to take it on.
Unfortunately, there had been ''quite a few'' injuries at the plant and a major focus was bringing those statistics down. The company did not want people off work, nor did it want to be hurting them, she said.
Personal protective equipment had been introduced over the years, while a physiotherapist was on site twice a week, which also helped with reducing incidents.
The biggest problem was the repetitive nature of the job. New employees were urged to get work-fit and there was a focus on making sure there were rotations and that employees got some down-time, she said.
From the health and safety side, she was also involved in the likes of drug testing for pre-employment.
Laboratory co-ordinator Wendy Taylor-Hayhurst looked after the day-to-day running of the on-site laboratory. It was her responsibility to ensure all the testing required by regulations and customer requirements was done.
There was hygiene testing, product testing, and then post-chilled product testing before packaging. Another focus was water testing, as all the plant's water was treated on site. Technical/compliance manager Judy McDiarmid's role mostly involved food safety, which was a big focus for the company's customers, and compliance.
She had now been at the plant for 23 years and found it was a great place to work with lots of different areas to move and progress into, she said.
Further-processing supervisor Tina Voyce, the first female boner at Pukeuri, said she enjoyed the people, the leadership and the support.
It was great to see people come in, grow, and move on to different stations. She reckoned P5, the lamb processing room in which she worked, was the best in New Zealand.
''We're really proud of what we do in there,'' she said.
The workshops included a plant tour, an overview of the red meat industry and an introduction to the tools available to farmers such as Hoofprint, a software program designed to help improve farm productivity.
It was the second set of workshops and followed a successful pilot scheme held in Invercargill earlier this year.
Alliance Group livestock technical officer Shona Frengley said it was a good way for women to gain information and ask questions they might not ask in other forums.
''Many people are surprised at how different meat processing is to what they expected, and the standards of hygiene and food safety required,'' she said.
