Onboarding Coordinator

Andrews Meat; Toowoomba Regional; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading regional meat processing company in Queensland is seeking an Onboarding Coordinator to guide new employees through the onboarding program. The role involves facilitating training, coaching new hires, and ensuring compliance with workplace safety. Strong communication and organizational skills are essential. Candidates should have experience in training and possess relevant certifications. This role requires working mostly on the production floor.

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate effectively with professionalism.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in training and facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Manage new hire experiences from day 1 to 60.
• Facilitate training and support new hires.
• Develop relationships with new hires and production management.

Skills

Communication

Personable

Organizational skills

Training

Time management

Education

Cert IV Training and Assessment

Cert II/III in Australian Meat Processing

Job description

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Plant/Site: JBS Beef City Plant

Date Posted: 16 Sept 2025

ONBOARDING COORDINATORS

About the Role

The Onboarding Coordinators observes, facilitates training, and coaches all new hires within their first 60 days of employment. The Onboarding Coordinator position plays a key role in guiding new employees through the facility’s onboarding program, ensuring they understand and meet expectations related to workplace safety, food safety and quality, and essential job skills. The position fosters strong connections between new hires and production management, offering mentorship and guidance to support their successful integration. The Onboarding Coordinator is required to meet with production management and Onboarding Supervisor as required, to review the new hires' performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall experience of new hires from day 1 to 60 days by providing consistent engagement, coaching, and training to support their successful integration.
• Facilitate group training and activities.
• Support the buddy in hands-on training for new hires during the onboarding period and make recommendations to the Onboarding Supervisor about individual training needs, concerns, and performance.
• Develop and promote positive working relationships with new hires, peers, and leaders.
• Meet with supervisors, Human Resources, and other coordinators to review production processes and new hire performance.
• Meet the following expectations: compliance with all JBS’ values, ensure support will be given for the new trainees qualify in their tasks timely, ensure weekly meetings with new hires and management are completed, follow up with floor supervisors and Onboarding Supervisor on new hire issues, focus all attention and resources on new hires and their successful onboarding.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Highly motivational and positive, considered a great people person.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with professionalism.
• Ability to present ideas, concepts, issues, concerns, and questions in a well thought out, positive, and professional manner to employees.
• Ability to work professionally with people from a wide variety of cultural and socio- economic backgrounds.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers and others.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work independently; disciplined, confident and self-starter.
• Must be willing to work in a plant/industrial environment.
• Must be able to work in hot/cold areas, stand for long periods of time, and know how to perform all tasks in the area. Successful candidates spend 90% of their time on the production floor with the new hires.
• Previous training and facilitation skills preferred.
• Must be proficient in both written and verbal communication.
• Must have a great attendance record and be in good standing.
• Desirable: Cert IV Training and Assessment
• Desirable: Cert II/III in Australian Meat Processing
• To perform this job successfully, applicant must be able to perform essential duties satisfactorily without restrictions.