Maintenance Fitter

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintaining assets across the Pellet Plant, focused on planned work, unplanned breakdown repair or service work, or plant limiting work, troubleshooting and problem-solving equipment failures, and improving plant reliability
• Undertake diagnostics and preventative inspections by maintenance plans and complete follow-up action
• Undertake confined space and working at heights activities
• Working autonomously, being reliable and positively contributing to the maintenance team, understanding the requirement to maintain assets in a safe and reliable condition
• Identifying defects and providing feedback on asset performance and health

Skills and experience required:

• Trade qualified – Fitter/Machinist with Cert 3 Engineering Mechanical Trade or equivalent 
• Forklift and telehandler tickets
• Elevated work platform license, working at heights, dogging, and rigging are highly regarded.
• Driver’s license
• Hands-on experience using SAP is beneficial
• Knowledge and experience in hydraulic systems, are desirable
• A proven history of fault finding, troubleshooting, and repairs on various plant
• Demonstrated heavy industry experience in fixed plant maintenance is highly regarded
• A strong safety-focused attitude

Key Benefits

Below are some of our key central benefits that are available to all employees. Other benefits may be available depending on your role or site. 
 

Employee Benefits Program: discounts for employees, friends, and family on a huge selection of products and services from a variety of brands including Samsung, Coles, Harvey Norman, Village Cinemas, Dick Smith, Vodafone, Thrifty, and many more.
Employee Assistance Program: Converge International, our EAP, offers confidential, professional, and free counseling and support resources in areas such as marriage/family difficulties, interpersonal conflict, stress, depression or anxiety, alcohol and/or drug dependencies, grief, loss or trauma, and workplace problems.
Corporate rates for private health insurance: Nib Health Insurance offers discounted coverage for employees.

About us

SIMEC Mining Iron Ore has operations in South Australia and New South Wales. Our Iron Ore operation in South Australia’s Middleback Ranges South of Whyalla consists of three primary sites: Iron Baron, Iron Knob, and the South Middleback Ranges. We also have a portfolio of non-ferrous mining assets located in South Australia, including the Ardrossan Dolomite Mine – which supplies dolomite flux to Whyalla Steelworks – as well as a collection of copper-gold exploration projects.