Plastics Technician

4 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Visy Full time

**Job no**: 50012509
**Work type**: Full Time
**Location**: Sydney - South West

Visy is powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing and recycling. Over 75 years, we've grown to 7,000 employees and 150 global operations -predominately in Australia and New Zealand.

Visy is a market leader in plastics packaging manufacturing in Australasia offering a range of plastic packaging solutions across a range of industries. We have a long history of providing quality, cutting-edge plastics products, and are constantly expanding our product range to meet our customers' needs. Importantly, Visy is committed to sustainability, recycling, and re-use across our entire business, including our extensive plastics packaging supply chain.

We have an opportunity for an Afternoon Shift Plastics Technician to join our Visy team based in Ingleburn, Sydney. This is a permanent full-time position working, Monday to Friday on our Afternoon shift (2pm to 10pm).

Reporting to the Production Manager you will be responsible for the operation, monitoring, and maintenance of extrusion blow moulding machines to ensure the production of high-quality plastic products to meet our customers' requirements.

Further to this your key responsibilities will include:

- Conducts all work in compliance with Company & Statutory Environmental requirements.
- Contribute to safety awareness so that no one is ever hurt in your work area.
- Ensures housekeeping of the work area is to plant standards at all times.
- Ensures all incidents are reported within 24 hours using proper procedure.
- Identifies & fixes all OHS & E hazards in the work area - where fixes are not possible or are incomplete, ensures hazards are reported using proper procedure.
- Adherence to all Quality systems and specifications.
- Developing effective relationships with other team members in your own and other areas of the plant.
- Assisting team in making decisions to resolve quality issues with minimum impact to the business.
- Actively participate in the GMP & HACCP programs as introduced to the plant.
- Complete mould changes in a timely and efficient manner
- Ensure machines are prepped and ready for planned operations
- Compliance with the plant preventative maintenance program.

**What You Will Bring**:

- Work Experience working in a high speed manufacturing environment.
- Extrusion blow moulding experience
- Commitment to OHS&E.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience within a manufacturing environment.
- IT competencies - MS Suite (especially Excel to an advanced level)

**What you'll love when you join us**:

- Access to a range of health, wealth, and lifestyle services and discounts.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support.
- Opportunities for further training and career advancement within the company
- Ready to make a difference? and be a key player in shaping our future_

**You will be required to meet Visy's employment criteria which will include a criminal history check.**

**Visy is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.**

**Advertised**: 02 Jul 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 03 Aug 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time

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