Maintenance Fitter: Food & Beverage — Temp-to-Perm

RPR Trades; Sydney; On-site; AUD 61,000 - 87,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

$53.50 per hour + super

Temp-to-permanent opportunities

Day, afternoon and night shifts

Job summary

RPR Trades is seeking experienced Maintenance Fitters for food & beverage manufacturing facilities across Sydney. Casual ongoing work with potential temp-to-perm opportunities. Earn $53.50 per hour + super across multiple sites, with day, afternoon and night shifts available.

You will perform preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance, diagnose faults, and assist with installations and upgrades, ensuring safety, quality and production targets are met.

Qualifications

• Certificate III in Engineering – Mechanical Trade or equivalent.
• Experience as Maintenance Fitter, Mechanical Fitter or Tradesperson.
• Food and beverage manufacturing experience is essential.
• Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with high-speed production and packaging machinery.
• Knowledge of preventative and reactive maintenance practices.
• Ability to read mechanical drawings and equipment docs.
• WHS and safety compliance understanding.

Responsibilities

• Perform preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance on processing equipment.
• Diagnose and repair faults to minimise downtime and protect output.
• Maintain conveyors, pumps, gearboxes, bearings, hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Troubleshoot pneumatic and hydraulic systems and conduct inspections.
• Support machinery installations, upgrades and commissioning.
• Work on high-speed production, processing and packaging lines.
• Identify improvements and contribute to continuous improvement projects.
• Complete maintenance records and work orders accurately.
• Collaborate with production teams to resolve equipment issues.

Skills

Fault-finding

Preventive maintenance

Troubleshooting

Mechanical drawings

High-speed equipment

Education

Certificate III in Engineering – Mechanical Trade

Job description

RPR Trades is seeking experienced Maintenance Fitters for food & beverage manufacturing facilities across Sydney. Casual ongoing work with potential temp-to-perm opportunities. Earn $53.50 per hour + super across multiple sites, with day, afternoon and night shifts available.

You will perform preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance, diagnose faults, and assist with installations and upgrades, ensuring safety, quality and production targets are met.