Workshop Leading Hand
- Support the Workshop Manager as the on-floor 2IC.
- Allocate and prioritise daily workshop tasks and provide hands-on support.
- Mentor apprentices and tradespeople while maintaining workshop standards.
Your Employer
Our client is a privately owned agribusiness with over 65 years of operation, managing one of Australia’s largest integrated poultry and cropping enterprises. Their vertically integrated model spans feed milling, egg production, and construction services, all supported by a skilled and diverse workforce. The organization is committed to sustainable practices, continuous innovation, and providing high-quality, affordable products to consumers nationwide.
Amidst their ongoing expansions, an opportunity to grow their skilled maintenance team is now underway to support future expansions across all divisions including their Grading Floor, Feedmill, Poultry infrastructure, and farming operations.
The Role
This newly created role supports the Workshop Manager as the on-floor 2IC, keeping jobs moving across repairs, fabrication, preventative maintenance, breakdowns and poultry/feed mill infrastructure work. Key responsibilities include:
- Allocate and prioritise daily workshop tasks
- Provide hands-on fitting, fabrication and maintenance support
- Support workflow, parts/materials flow and quality checks
- Mentor apprentices and tradespeople
- Maintain job cards, permits, timesheets and workshop paperwork
- Monitor tools, consumables, equipment and workshop standards
- Act as the key workshop contact when the Workshop Manager is away
Skills & Experience
This role is ideally suited to someone who enjoys a diverse range of tasks where no two days are the same. With previous relevant experience, and strong fabrication skills, it’s important you can address the following criteria:
- Relevant trade qualification - Fitter, Boilermaker, or similar
- Experience in industrial, agricultural, fabrication and/or feed mill settings
- Previous leadership/supervisory experience
- Open driver’s licence and Construction White Card
- Q Fever vaccination or willingness to obtain
- Full Australian Working Rights
The Benefits:
- Tool of Trade work Ute
- 9-day fortnight (every 2nd Monday or Friday off)
- Overtime and penalty rates applicable
- Highly diverse role between capex projects and specialised systems maintenance
- Large workshop facility equipped with new lathes, mills, and other fabricating equipment
- $30/day travel allowance (if residing over 50kms from site)
- Employee award programs with opportunities for career progression and professional training
- Relocation assistance and temporary accommodation available
Choose Agri Talent
Agri Talent provides permanent recruitment and executive search services exclusively for Australian agribusiness. Our extensive digital network connects quality candidates to diverse and exciting roles with respected clients across Australia’s agriculture sector.
For more information, please contact Ben Frazer, Senior Recruitment Consultant, Agri Talent on ************.
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