Maintenance Fitter | Plastics | Permanent Day Shift, Mon–Fri

A hands-on maintenance fitter's role at a plastics manufacturing site in Moorabbin that is being built into its group's centre of excellence for maintenance. Day shift, Monday to Friday.

This is a broad maintenance seat rather than a narrow repair one — preventative maintenance, breakdown response and fault finding across the moulding machines and the plant around them. If you are good at working out why something has stopped, the moulding side can be taught on site.

What's on offer

• $54.58 per hour + super (C7, EBA) — 8-hour paid day including a paid lunch break

• Full-time permanent, day shift Monday to Friday — no rotating roster

• Start times flexible between 6am and 7am

• Overtime available — occasional weekends and weekdays

• All tools and laundered uniforms provided

• Structured training and upskilling — including robotics, vision systems and condition monitoring

• Additional tickets — disconnect/reconnect, dual trade, first aid, fire warden — can lift your classification and your hourly rate

Why this site is different

Most maintenance jobs are a queue of breakdowns. This one is attached to a plan.

• The site is being built into its group's centre of excellence for maintenance — the place where the standard gets set and the other plants come to learn it

• Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance, in practice rather than on a poster — machine data, condition monitoring and vision systems used to catch failures before they stop the line

• High-speed European thin-wall moulding equipment, with new plant coming as the site expands

• Robots, palletising and vision systems across the floor

• People development is taken seriously — tickets and qualifications are supported, and the site brings tradespeople up rather than replacing them

• Clean. Food packaging standards apply, so this is not a dirty maintenance environment

If you want to keep learning rather than do the same repair for the next ten years, that's the argument for this seat.

What you'll be doing

• Planned and preventative maintenance across the moulding machines and auxiliary plant

• Breakdown response — fault finding, testing, removing and replacing damaged parts

• Diagnosing across mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, and how they interact with the electrical controls

• Work orders through the CMMS

• Working on the robots and the vision systems — full training given if this is new to you

• Working with contractors and with production to keep downtime down

• Suggesting improvements to machinery and process

• Site safety, always ahead of production

About you

• Trade qualified mechanical fitter or maintenance fitter

• Solid maintenance and fault-finding experience in manufacturing — FMCG, packaging, food and beverage, plastics, automotive or printing all translate well

• A genuine problem solver. This is the thing the site cares about most

• Sound hydraulics and pneumatics — fault finding and component replacement

• Injection moulding experience welcome but not required — the site has trained a fitter into it from scratch within the last year

• Disconnect/reconnect licence, dual trade, first aid or fire warden tickets are an advantage and are recognised through the classification

• An appetite to learn. Automation, robotics, vision systems and predictive maintenance are where this site is heading, and it will train the right person into all of it

• Reliable, takes ownership, follows through

How to apply

Apply via SEEK with your resume. If a call suits you better than an application, text me on 0483 922 *** and I'll ring you back.

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by George Lord to discuss the role.