Machine Operator (Laminex, Hamilton)

Laminex New Zealand; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at Laminex New Zealand as a Machine Operator at our Hamilton site. This role emphasizes safety and teamwork, operating advanced machinery in a clean manufacturing environment. The ideal candidate will have mechanical aptitude, a positive attitude, and experience in plant operations. Benefits include job security, overtime opportunities, and a supportive work culture that values diversity.

Benefits

Excellent starting rate plus overtime opportunities

Job security in established company

Skills-based pay

Secure free onsite car parking

Qualifications

• Experience operating fixed plant in manufacturing, construction, or warehousing.
• Positive attitude and strong Health & Safety awareness required.
• Preferred Class 1 Full Drivers Licence.

Responsibilities

• Operate large, technical plant & machinery in a clean safety-first environment.
• Follow safety processes and systems while working as part of a team.
• Participate in pre-employment medical testing.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Health & Safety awareness

Tools

Forklift Licence

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Description

Laminex New Zealand is part of the Fletcher Building group with two manufacturing sites in Hamilton and Taupo, distribution centres in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, and 9 sales branches nationwide.

Why Laminex?

Our Hamilton plant has been making Melteca board for over 40 years and you’ll find Melteca in your home, schools, hospitals, retirement villages, and commercial buildings. It is a product that Kiwis love for generations and an environmentally sustainable product to be proud of.

Being part of Fletcher Building you will have access to a wide range of great benefits including parental leave, education fund grants for you and your immediate family, employee recognition programmes, a great team environment that includes family days, site BBQs, great discounts with retailers, and much more.

Here’s What We Are Looking For

Our Hamilton site is looking for an upbeat, positive, and reliable person to join our team as a Machine Operator. We pride ourselves on working in a clean factory where safety and teamwork come first. We all go home safely to our family and friends as one team.

Ideally, you’ll have experience operating fixed plant in a manufacturing, construction, or warehousing environment with mechanical aptitude, as you will be working around large and technical plant & machinery.

Key To Your Success Is

• Positive, can-do attitude is an absolute must!
• Strong Health & Safety awareness with the ability to follow processes and systems
• Good attention to detail and excellent communication skills
• Preferred Class 1 Full Drivers Licence, and Forklift Licence

Our shifts are 4 days on, 4 days off - 2 days shifts 7am to 7pm then 2 night shifts 7pm to 7am.

Here Is What We Can Offer

• Excellent starting rate plus the opportunity to do overtime to increase earnings
• Job security in a well-established and growing company
• Skills-based pay – you learn and earn as you go
• Secure free onsite car parking, and other perks that are associated with being part of Fletcher Building.

To ensure yours and others' safety, we do require pre-employment medical testing and a criminal history clearance. Please only apply if you are legally entitled to work in New Zealand.

So what are you waiting for? If you believe you can take this role on and be a big part of an inclusive, diverse, and fun-loving team, then apply now!

Our teams thrive on diversity, embracing various nationalities, languages, religions, customs, and lifestyles. We are proud of our diversity and see it as one of the things that make us better together.