Discover Your Next Role
Are you a skilled Boilermaker ready to make an impact? At Wilmar Sugar & Renewables, you’ll play a crucial role in maintaining and improving operations. You'll work within a collaborative team fabricating essential equipment, such as Pans & Evaporators, which we install in-house, as well as the locomotives we use to transport sugar cane. From providing maintenance to guiding apprentices and ensuring top-quality performance, you'll be a key part of our success. If you're looking for a hands-on role with real responsibility, we want to hear from you!
This position will be based at Pioneer Mill in North Queensland's Burdekin region, known for its stunning landscapes, rich agricultural heritage, and a vibrant community. The Burdekin region offers a fantastic lifestyle with a warm climate, beautiful beaches and a range of recreational activities, making it a great place to live and work.
Your Role in Action
* Keep Things Running Smoothly: Provide timely, safe, and efficient maintenance services, tackling both planned and unplanned jobs, and ensuring high standards are met.
* Evaluate and Improve Assets: Help assess the lifespan and performance of our assets, and contribute to capital and maintenance budgeting for long-term success.
* Lead and Mentor Apprentices: Provide guidance, set goals, and offer valuable on-the-job training to help apprentices and trainees grow in their roles.
* Maintain Factory Operations: Get hands-on with preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, repairs, and installations to keep our equipment running smoothly.
* Keep Documentation Spot On: Ensure work orders, permits, timesheets, and reports are completed accurately and on time, maintaining compliance and efficiency.
* Uphold Quality and Teamwork: Work within a collaborative environment, conducting inspections, identifying problems, and implementing improvements to ensure the highest quality standards.
Your Winning Combination
Our ideal candidate will hold a Certificate III in Engineering - Fabrication Trade, along with a current Confined Space certificate, a valid Safe Working at Heights certificate, and a manual driver’s license. If you have additional certificates, that's a plus! But don’t sweat it if you don’t—we’re here to help you learn and grow in your role!
What Wilmar will offer you
At Wilmar, you'll be embraced as a valued member of our team, appreciated for your unique contributions. We offer competitive pay and benefits, including additional leave and superannuation entitlements and exclusive partner discounts. Our emphasis on safety and innovation creates a supportive work environment where you can thrive.
How to Apply
If you think that you are the perfect fit for this role, we invite you to apply online via Wilmar Careers before midnight on 8th March 2026. Got questions or need a helping hand with your application? Our friendly People & Culture Team is just a call away at (07) 4783 0***. We look forward to receiving your application.
About Wilmar Sugar & Renewables
Wilmar Sugar Australia is part of Wilmar International, a leading global agribusiness with around 100,000 employees and an FY2024 net profit of more than US$1 billion.
Across Australia and New Zealand, we operate two major business units, Sugar & Renewables and Sweeteners, employing 2,400+ people during peak/ seasonal operations with corporate offices in Melbourne, Brisbane, Townsville and Auckland.
As Australia’s largest raw sugar manufacturer and a top 10 global producer, Wilmar Sugar & Renewables runs eight sugar mills across North Queensland. We are also one of the nation’s largest generators of renewable electricity from biomass, a major producer of bioethanol, the largest sugarcane grower, and a key supplier of sustainable fertiliser and stockfeed.