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Rockcote is one of Australia’s most loved and trusted brands and manufacturers of Coloured Render, Textures, Paint and Natural Materials coatings for residential and commercial buildings. Proudly Australian owned and operated, our factory is based on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast and our products can be found throughout Australia and New Zealand.
Rockcote is a family owned, customer centric business, with a passion for creating quality, innovative, and high-performance coating systems. Our products create naturally beautiful spaces for all, whilst always looking to protect our environment.
Recognised as a 2023 Australian Business Awards Employer of Choice, we continually strive to create a nurturing place of work that is safe, inclusive, and aspirational. Embracing work-life integration over balance, bringing our best selves to both work and home.
Our Position
Rockcote has a fulltime Night ShiftLeading Hand position available in our cement-based render manufacturing plant, located at our Yandina factory.
The hours of work are 9:00pm to 7:00am Monday to Thursday, working 9.5 hours per shift, 4 days per week. You will finish the working week on Friday morning, and return Monday evening, enjoying a long weekend every weekend!
Due to working Night Shift you will receive 30% shift loading on top of your base fortnightly salary.
You will be responsible for leading the Night Shift production team to ensure the safe, high quality and timely manufacture of our dry plant production products.
Responsibilities
- Train, develop and motivate staff to fully understand all processes and procedures in the dry production plant.
- Lead by example in setting up and operating equipment in compliance with Workplace Health and Safety standards and Safe Operating Procedures.
- Be a champion of ‘5s’, workplace health and safety, quality and improving production efficiency.
- Develop a positive and productive team environment, including identifying skill gaps and working on continuous improvement of the team.
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles for achieving the production schedule assigned to your shift.
- Liaise and work in collaboration with other departments to ensure timely production, stock availability and quality products are met.
- Communicate regularly with the maintenance team to ensure preventative and proactive maintenance in the plant.
- Collaborate with the Senior Lead Hand to maximise production time and minimise change over times, for improving output.
- Ensure quality testing is performed following QC testing work instructions, with accurate record keeping.
Requirements
- Proven supervision and leadership experience.
- Experience in manufacturing.
- Experience with troubleshooting, mechanical and pneumatic processes.
- Lean manufacturing, 5S and continuous improvement process experience.
- Experience creating and reviewing Safe Operating Procedures.
- Forklift and Loader licences are highly desirable.
- Certificate III in a relevant field.
- Excellent time management and resource planning.
- High level of verbal and written communication skills, including numerical and basic computer knowledge.
- Safety focused and comfortable wearing a respirator.
- Physically fit & strong with the ability to lift up to 25kg.
Our Benefits
- Family owned and operated business
- Located on the beautiful Sunshine Coast
- Promoting a Positive Workplace Culture
- Supporting a healthy work/life balance
- Employee Wellbeing Program
- Counselling available through our Employee Assistance Program
- Above award wage paid
- Training and Development Planning
- Staff discount on Rockcote products
If you would like to work for a local Sunshine Coast manufacturer, then we want to hear from you.
Only successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.
Rockcote is an equal opportunity employer.
Applicants must be willing to undergo a standard company medical if successful.
