Drillers Offsider / Trainee

Trainee Driller / Offsider - Water Bore Drilling
Picton East (Bunbury) & South West WA | Full-time, permanent | Local work — NOT FIFO

Read this ad in full before applying. It'll save us both time.

Australind Water Boring & Civil (AWBC) drills water bores and builds the pump systems that go down them. We're a founder-led South West business running two rigs out of Picton East, just outside Bunbury. We're after a Trainee Driller / Offsider to join the crew and learn the trade from the ground up.

Here's the part most people miss: fewer than 600 people in the whole state hold a water well driller qualification. It's a Certificate III trade with formal ADIA licensing behind it — a real ticket, real standing, and work that isn't going anywhere. Qualify, and you're one of a very small number of people in WA who can do this, with skills that stay in demand.

First, what this job is NOT

• It is not FIFO. No rosters, no airports, no camps.

• It is not a foot in the door to the mines. If you're using this as a stepping stone to a mine site, don't apply — you'll be gone in six months and we'll both have wasted our time.

What it actually is
Local, hands-on, day-work drilling across the South West. Home most nights. A formal, paid traineeship leading to a Certificate III and ADIA drilling licences — a recognised qualification held by fewer than 600 people in the state. If you'd rather build a scarce, respected skill close to home than chase a roster, keep reading.

What you'll be doing

• Offsiding for our drillers — you're their right hand on the rig

• Rigging up and down, handling rods and casing, mixing drilling fluids

• Running and maintaining plant, trucks and gear (we'll teach you)

• Keeping the rig and site clean, orderly and safe — every day, no shortcuts

• General site labour, loading and unloading

• Working through a structured traineeship toward your Cert III and ADIA tickets

Who we're after — it's a trainee role, so attitude beats experience

• You show up on time, every day

• You're fit and genuinely happy doing hard, dirty, outdoor work in all weather

• You look after equipment like it's your own

• You take direction and actually want to learn a trade

• You live in the South West — or you're genuinely relocating. This is not a temporary gig.

• Handy to have: any plant, machinery, mechanical, farm or construction background

What you need to start — and that's genuinely it

• A current C-class driver's licence

• Ability to pass a pre-employment drug & alcohol test

• The right attitude

Every other ticket and qualification — White Card, machinery competencies, your Cert III and ADIA licences — you earn on the job, paid, through the traineeship. We invest in the right person.

What you get

• A formal, paid pathway to a recognised drilling qualification held by fewer than 600 people in WA — the real reason to take this job

• Full-time, permanent, local work — home most nights

• A trade you can build a life on, in a field where qualified people are genuinely scarce

• A tight crew and a founder who's built and run water infrastructure at every scale, and who looks after his people and his gear

How to apply — read this bit
Apply through Seek. In your application, answer one question: why local water bore drilling — and not a mine site — is the career you actually want. Applications that don't address it won't be shortlisted. That's how we know you read the ad.

Shortlisted candidates only will be invited to book an interview time directly. We're not chasing volume — we're after the right person.