Technician

**Job Description**:
**About us**

Pact Group’s vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

Every day we provide our Dairy and Beverage customers with light weight packaging featuring local recycled content.

As an innovative leader in packaging, it’s not surprising we were the first in our region to offer the dairy industry 100% recycled PET bottles. For our Dairy and Beverage customers, we supply PET, rPET, HDPE and rHDPE bottles, closures, and crates for everything from fresh milk and drinking yoghurts to juice, water, and alcohol, in a range that includes the lightest weight milk bottle in the region. For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things, ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

**This opportunity**:
As a Moulding Technician the primary purpose is to ensure the efficient and safe operation of machinery, production of materials and monitor the process of manufacturing of product for packaging in accordance with approved procedures, quality standards, and customer specifications.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

- Work safely, looking after yourself and your teammates.
- Ensure any incidents or near misses are reported using Pact’s systems.
- Maintaining a clean workplace and focus on GMP.
- Setup moulding machines and ancillary equipment such as baggers, inspection systems and conveyors.
- Monitor and ensure all Production and QA records are completed as required.
- Ensure daily production targets are achieved.
- Ensure that product quality and packing standards are achieved.
- Initiate changes of moulds and materials.
- Troubleshoot issues with the moulding machines, trimmers, baggers and inspection equipment.
- Escalate breakdowns to the maintenance team and assist as needed.
- Utilization of the production performance system OFS.

**About your skills and experience**:
To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Excellent mechanical aptitude coupled with a comprehensive education and/or practical experience in the field.
- A trade background in areas such as electrical, mechanical, or toolmaking is preferable but not mandatory.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and resolving issues at the root cause.
- Making machine adjustments to address efficiency and product non-conformances
- Teamwork focus.
- Good reading and writing skills.

**About you**:

- Ability to work with mínimal supervision.
- Eagerness to learn.
- Can do attitude.
- Reliable, punctual and available to work weekends.
- Results driven
- Good written & verbal communication skills.

**Additional Information**:
What’s on offer:

- A competitive hourly rate plus overtime when required.
- Local job in a well-established business in the south east suburbs
- Close knit and high performing team
- Career progress opportunities

**Qualifications**:
Additional Information
**About us**

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives every day.

Our promise is to create a better and more prosperous world all round.

That’s our future Pact. Let’s lead the way together.