Maintenance Fitter
- Join the maintenance team at the Primary Processing Plant in Burton as a Maintenance Fitter.
- Perform preventative and reactive maintenance on production equipment to ensure reliability and efficiency.
- Work autonomously and collaboratively to uphold safety and quality standards.
We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.
A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.
Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.
Your opportunity to join our team:
Join our maintenance team at our Primary Processing Plant in Burton as a Maintenance Fitter, where you’ll play a key role in keeping our production equipment running safely, reliably and efficiently.
This is a hands-on, autonomous role where your mechanical expertise and fault-finding skills will make a genuine impact. You’ll work across preventative and reactive maintenance troubleshooting equipment issues and get to the root cause of faults, not simply patch them over.
Working a 4-on, 4-off rotating roster, you’ll enjoy the consistency of 12 hour shifts balanced with four days off, please 26.786% shift allowance applicable across the rotating roster. If you enjoy solving problems, taking ownership of your work and being part of a supportive maintenance team, this could be a great next step.
What you’ll do:
- Attending to repairs and breakdowns of production machinery in a timely manner
- Executing preventative and routine maintenance procedures to improve efficiency and reliability
- Liaising with the production team to effectively plan and prioritise work to accommodate production requirements and available resources
- Assisting in developing and introducing maintenance programs to support all internal stakeholders
- Working autonomously and within a team environment
- Upholding safety to the highest degree, for yourself and your colleagues
- Sustaining and driving quality solutions in an HACCP environment
- Actively seeking opportunities to improve operations performance, system reliability, and reduce overall downtime
- Planning and designing projects for new installations and equipment modification and redesign
- Ensuring the execution of safety standards and quality assurance practices in all repairs and maintenance activities
- Identifying and escalating Animal Welfare, Food Safety & Quality issues
What you’ll bring:
- Australian-recognised Mechanical Trades qualification
- Experience servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment including automated machinery, conveyors, and more, in an industrial manufacturing environment — preferably primary food processing or food and beverage
- Experience with gear-driven systems and conveyor belts
- Fault-finding experience across hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems
- A demonstrated commitment to occupational health and safety practices
- Basic fabrication skills
- Experience in both breakdown and preventive maintenance
- Sound interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills, with the ability to multitask
- Experience with Maximo or similar CMMS (advantageous, not essential)
- The ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team
What we’ll offer you:
- 4:4 rotating roster (12-hour shifts, 24-hour coverage) — consistency, recovery time, and a lifestyle that actually works
- Earn up to $45.33/hr + 26.786% shift allowances on the rotating roster
- 5 weeks annual leave for shift positions
- Above-Award rates plus overtime opportunities
- Access to Fitness Passport that gives you affordable access to gyms, pools and fitness facilities nationwide
- Employee benefits including product discounts and travel discounts
- Genuine opportunities to develop your career, supported by our performance and succession programs.
- The health, safety, and wellbeing of our people is our highest priority
- ASX-listed company with operations across Australia and New Zealand
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 deliciously good food that’s…Always Good!
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