Posted: 17/01/2025
Closing Date: 01/04/2025
**Job Type**: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Caboolture
Job Category: Trades & Services
**AKD** is a leader in the forestry products industry, dedicated to growing and manufacturing sustainable, high-quality timber products. With over 1,000 team members across Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, we are proud of our collaborative and dynamic workplace culture. We foster empowered individuals, teamwork, and a practical, action-driven attitude that drives success.
As part of our continued growth, we are seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated Shift Maintenance Fitter to join our team. If you thrive on challenges and take pride in your technical expertise, this role offers an excellent opportunity to make a tangible impact.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all." - Sir Ernest Shackleton
At AKD, we embrace this ethos of perseverance and problem-solving as we work together to achieve success.
**About the Role**
Reporting to the Shift Team Leader, you will play a critical role in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of our plant and equipment. This hands-on position focuses on maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving preventive maintenance programs to minimise downtime and support production goals.
**Key Details**:
- **Roster**: Lifestyle-friendly 12-hour shifts with a 7-day rest period every 4 weeks.
- **Remuneration**: Attractive 100K annualised package with opportunities for overtime.
**Desired Skills and Experience**:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Work collaboratively in a team environment, including with apprentices, to resolve day-to-day maintenance challenges.
- Perform preventive maintenance to enhance equipment reliability and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Respond promptly and efficiently to breakdowns to minimise production disruptions.
- Analyse faults, provide solutions, and implement rectifications.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant safety and quality standards.
- Plan, organise direct and control the daily tasks you are undertaking to align with operational requirements.
**About You**
**Essential**:
- Mechanical trade certificate (e.g., Fitter and Turner).
- A demonstrated commitment to workplace health and safety.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to work well in a team.
- Basic computer literacy to support maintenance documentation and planning.
**Desirable**:
- Experience in a similar role, ideally within a fast-paced industrial or manufacturing workplace.
**Why Join AKD?**
- Opportunity to work with one of the largest and most innovative forestry companies in Australia.
- Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture that values teamwork, initiative, and achievement.
- Lifestyle-friendly roster with a focus on work-life balance.
If you are committed, energetic, and ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!
**Note**: Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing, along with functional capacity assessments, are mandatory for this role.
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