Afternoon Shift Fitter

The Company
This established heavy industrial company plays a key role in supplying essential materials into the construction, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors across NSW. Operating out of a large-scale processing facility in Blacktown, they offer stable long-term employment within a busy operation where maintenance reliability is critical to keeping production moving.
The site has a strong workshop culture with a large team of Fitters and Boilermakers onsite, supporting both workshop maintenance and production operations across the facility. It's a fast-paced environment with plenty happening day to day, a busy maintenance schedule, and a genuinely good atmosphere across the team.

Benefits

• Permanent full-time role
• 6-day work week: Monday – Saturday
• Afternoon Shift: Mon – Fri 1pm–11:30pm | Sat 1pm–7pm
• Strong safety culture and well-resourced maintenance team
• Busy, team-oriented workshop and production environment
• Blacktown location

Pay Rates & Shift Structure
Base Rate: $50.50 - $52.42 p/h + 20% shift loading + super
Annualised equivalent: $183,658 - $190,641 + super
Based on a 56-hour paid week, the standard working pattern is structured as:

• First 38 hours paid at base rate + 20% afternoon shift loading
• Next 18 hours paid at time and a half on the base rate
• Occasional longer Saturdays or Sunday shutdowns may push additional hours into double time
• Annualised earnings are based on 48 weeks working the standard pattern plus 4 weeks annual leave paid at ordinary hours

The Role
Working within the maintenance team, you'll play a key role in executing planned maintenance, equipment upgrades and reliability improvements across a busy industrial site. The role offers exposure across both heavy fixed plant and mobile plant equipment within a workshop and production environment.
Day to day you will be involved in:

• Preventative maintenance and planned maintenance activities across heavy plant and processing equipment
• Shutdown maintenance, equipment rebuilds and reliability improvement projects
• Installation and commissioning of new equipment and plant upgrades
• Fault finding, servicing and maintenance on heavy fixed plant and mobile plant equipment
• Supporting continuous improvement and plant reliability initiatives
• Workshop-based repairs, fabrication support and onsite maintenance activities

Requirements

• Trade qualification in Mechanical Fitting or similar
• Experience within heavy industry, recycling, manufacturing, mines or tunnels
• MIG & stick welding exposure highly regarded
• High Risk tickets such as confined space, WAH, EWP and Forklift highly desirable

Interested?
Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential chat about the role and site – Maisy@maydaytechnical.com