Maintenance Fitter

3 days ago

Thomastown, Australia Inghams Group Limited Full time

**Posted**:
26/08/2025

**Closing Date**:
26/09/2025

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
VIC - Thomastown

**Job Category**:
Operations

We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.

A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.

Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.

Job Description

**Your opportunity to join us at Thomastown**

**Hours of Work**:

- This is a full-time role that will operate over our morning shift 6am - 2.30pm
- Flexible to work on afternoon shift and overtime (early starts and weekend work)

**Daily Tasks**:

- Attending to repairs and breakdowns of production machinery in a timely manner
- Reduce reactive maintenance and proactively improve unplanned downtime
- Assisting in developing and introducing maintenance programs to support all internal stakeholders
- Ensure the execution of safety standards and quality assurance practices into all repairs and maintenance activities
- Identifying and escalating Animal Welfare, Food Safety & Quality issues, hazards and risks
- Take personal responsibility to ensure livestock is treated humanely by self and others

**You will bring to this role**:

- Australian recognised Mechanical Trades qualification
- Experience in servicing, repair, and maintaining various equipment, including but not limited to automated packing machinery, conveyors, hydraulics, and more, in an industrial manufacturing environment, preferably further processing or food and beverage industry
- Demonstrated commitment to Occupational Health and Safety practices
- Experience in fault finding on hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems
- Fabrication and welding are essential
- Essential tickets - forklift license, scissor lift, EWP (11m), confined space
- Experience in breakdown as well and preventive maintenance
- Sound interpersonal skills with the ability to develop relationships, communicate and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders
- Proven skills in the areas of attention to detail, information processing and problem solving with the ability to multitask
- Experience with Maximo as a CMMS would be an advantage
- Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team

We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous, and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’sAlways Good.

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