AddressYour new career opportunity: Mechanical Fitters
- Inclusive work environment where people are valued and respected
- Residential role in the tight-knit town of Gladstone surrounded by iconic natural attractions
- Get ahead financially with company benefits including domestic relocation assistance and subsidised private health insurance
- Full-time positions working a 9-day fortnight roster
About the role
We have exciting opportunities available for experienced Mechanical Fitters to join our team across the various departments at Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL). If you enjoy a challenge and are passionate about safety, team work and continuous improvement, this is the time to join our business.
As a team member at QAL, you will contribute to our Safe, Stable and Sustainable vision by:
- Ensuring all work is performed in accordance with site health, environmental and community policies, systems and procedures
- Completing planned and breakdown maintenance on pumps, pipework, valves, conveyors, mills, turbines and associated equipment including overhauls, installations and assembly change-outs
- Diagnosing and recommending repair methods
- Monitoring, isolating, commissioning and performing preventative maintenance and conducting operational activities
- Identifying, developing and implementing improvements relating to the plant equipment, work processes and practices
- Effectively communicating with section stakeholders and peers to safely achieve maximum productivity of a high standard
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you should have:
- Demonstrated ability to safely work as an individual and within a team environment
- Trade qualifications as a Mechanical Fitter & Turner
- Willingness to learn new skills
- Forklift, dogging and rigging tickets would be advantageous
- Demonstrated experience in fixed plant maintenance
- Ability to make sound judgments to ensure plant integrity is maintained at all times
- Demonstrated ability to function effectively as part of a team and to autonomously manage your workload
- A commitment to continuous improvement by identifying process and cost saving initiatives
What’s on offer
We know there are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include:
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- Competitive salary package
- Domestic relocation assistance
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Learning and development opportunities to support your desired technical or leadership career path
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
Where you will be working
Gladstone is a coastal town in central Queensland with the region home to a population of approximately 64,000. The Gladstone region enjoys well-established education services, entertainment, shopping and medical facilities and is the gateway to the Southern Great Barrier Reef. If you are thinking of making a seaside change, check out what our region has to offer:
About QAL
Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) is one of the world’s largest alumina refineries, enjoying a global reputation as a leader in the minerals processing industry. QAL is focused on employee engagement, best practice technology, innovative capital solutions, benchmark maintenance and project execution whilst maintaining world class safety, quality and environmental performance.
Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.
At QAL, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
You may not meet all the selection criteria we are looking for, but that doesn’t mean you are not the right fit for QAL. You might have experience outside of these requirements that will make you a great candidate with strengths in areas that we can build on.
If you are looking for a new venture and the chance to work for a company that cares about being Safe, Stable and Sustainable, apply today.
