Maintenance Fitter

Your opportunity to join our team 

As a Maintenance Fitter at our Sorell facility, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of our machinery and equipment. You will play a key role in minimizing downtime and maximizing productivity by performing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting issues, and making necessary repairs. This is a great opportunity to join a supportive team and contribute to the production of high-quality poultry products. 

Benefits 

• Immediate start
• Onsite Parking
• Great employee benefits including product discounts, travel discounts + more! 
• Opportunity for future permanent employment 
• Great job security with an ASX-listed and stable company 
• The health, safety and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority 
• Fast-paced and team-focused environment 
• Consistent hours provided weekly

Hours of Work:

This is a full-time role that will operate Monday – Friday , rotating shifts 

• 4:00am-12:30pm
• 6:00am-2:30pm
• 8:30am-5:00pm

Daily Tasks:

• Attending to repairs and breakdowns of production machinery in a timely manner
• Reduce reactive maintenance and proactively improve unplanned downtime
• Assisting in developing and introducing maintenance programs to support all internal stakeholders
• Ensure the execution of safety standards and quality assurance practices into all repairs and maintenance activities
• Identifying and escalating Animal Welfare, Food Safety & Quality issues, hazards and risks
• Take personal responsibility to ensure livestock is treated humanely by self and others

You will bring to this role:

• Australian recognised Mechanical Trades qualification
• Experience in servicing, repair, and maintaining various equipment, including but not limited to automated packing machinery, conveyors, hydraulics, and more, in an industrial manufacturing environment .
• Demonstrated commitment to Occupational Health and Safety practices
• Experience in fault finding on hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems
• Experience in breakdown as well and preventive maintenance
• Sound interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships, communicate and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders
• Proven skills in the areas of attention to detail, information processing and problem solving with the ability to multitask
• Experience with Maximo as a CMMS would be an advantage
• Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team

We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous, and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’s… Always Good.