Trade Assistant/Store Person

Maintenance Crew – Trades Assistant / Store Person

The Farmer Group is an Australian family owned and operated diverse horticultural enterprise. Based in Virginia South Australia, we have recently completed a major upgrade to automate our production facility.

We are seeking to build a ‘hands on’ team of Maintenance personnel, from mechanical tradesperson to trades assistants and store personnel, we have roles to suite all.  All roles will come together to achieve the companies’ overall goals of effectively managing preventative maintenance and successfully overcoming challenging breakdowns.  

Your Tasks & Responsibilities:

Trades Assistant: 

• Work alongside our maintenance tradespersons to assist in the repairs and maintenance of production equipment. On site we have a mixture of new and old equipment including but not limited to roller and belt conveyors, chain rollers, shuttles, pneumatics, hydraulics, 2D & 3D Burg Robots, Tomra Sentinel II, Wyma Wash line, Sorma Palletisers & CFC Machines, Innotech Vertical Form Fill Seal machines, FH Bag on Roll, Equaft wicket baggers and Verbruggen palletisers. Most of this equipment is less than 6 months into production use. 
• Carry out preventative maintenance that has been allocated to you in MEX.
• Carry out housekeeping of wash line and packing lines.
• Opportunity to upskill to a tradesperson role. 
• Assist management and support personnel in the day-to-day operations of a maintenance environment and workshop.
• Ensure that the workshop area is maintained in a clean and operational state. 
• Ensure that in the event of machinery breakdown, that machinery is repaired as effectively and efficiently as possible in line with WHS and Quality and Food Safety requirements and that the area is returned in a fit for production state. 

Store Person:

• Manage ordering of parts and materials required for maintenance. 
• Maintain inventory for critical spare parts.
• Maintaining a clean and organised workshop
• Maintaining Gas Bottles on site
• Maintaining Forklifts onsite with main hire company
• Packaging & consumables stock control
• Loading and unloading of trucks when required
• Support as a Trades Assistant when required.

Skills & Experience required:

• Good positive attitude and strong work ethic
• Mechanically minded.

Available for immediate start. This role requires a person that can think on their feet and be proactive and be able to manage their own workload whilst taking directions from senior staff members.

If you possess a good work ethic along with strong communication skills, then we are eager to hear from you. Competitive remuneration available for the right candidates.