Install Offsider / Labourer — Learn a Trade On the Job
Install Offsider / Labourer — Learn a Trade On the Job
Overnight + interstate work
Sydney-based
No trade qual needed
Real path to becoming a qualified installer
$70k–$95k earning range
Paid interstate travel
Private bedroom always
38hr/wk minimum guaranteed pay
Rapid track to your Cert III if you're the right person.
If you want a 7am–3pm labourer job on a house site, this isn't for you. Stop reading.
If you're a hard worker who wants to learn a real trade, can travel, doesn't mind night shifts, and isn't afraid of a 14-hour day when the job needs it — keep reading.
WHO WE ARE
Capital Design Works builds and installs premium gaming-room joinery for clubs, pubs and casinos across NSW, QLD and VIC. 30+ years in the trade. Often copied, never replicated. We design it, manufacture it in our 3,500m2 Revesby factory, and install it in venues that can only give us the install window between close and re-open.
Around 60% of our installs run overnight (typical window 10pm to 12pm next day — the famous 14-hour shift). The other 40% are daytime new-builds and refurbs. Interstate runs to QLD and VIC are common. That's the normal pattern of work, not the exception. We're not pretending it's anything else.
WHO WE'RE HIRING
Fit, hard-working offsiders / labourers — no trade qualification required. If you're strong, reliable and want to learn a real trade, this is for you.
You'll thrive here if you've done any of:
Labourer / TA (trades assistant) on commercial fitouts, exhibitions or shutdowns
Furniture removals, warehousing, freight, or heavy lifting work
Shop-fitter offsider — carried panels, protected finishes, held drills
Site labouring on new-build fitouts, running loading docks
Landscaping, concreting, formwork — anywhere physical fitness and grit matter
Ex-military, ex-farm hand, ex-warehouse — used to being physical all day
You'll hate it here if:
You want a Monday-to-Friday day job with the same start time every day, home by 4pm. Don't apply. We're not the right fit and that's okay.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Unloading trucks, staging parts on site in install sequence
Protecting existing finishes — floor, walls, gaming machines — before we start cutting
Carrying, lifting, holding panels while the qualified installer sets them
Site clean-up, rubbish removal, dust extraction,



keeping the crew moving
Basic power-tool work as you learn — drills, screwdrivers, silicone gun
Overnight venue changeovers (typical window 10pm–12pm next day, 14-hour shifts common)
Daytime installs on new builds and refurbs
Interstate runs — NSW / QLD / VIC, 1-day to 5-day stints
Learning the job from a Leading Hand who's done it 10+ years
FITNESS MATTERS — BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF
This is a physically demanding job. Every day you'll lift 25kg-plus panels overhead, stand or kneel for 12+ hours, work in dusty tight spaces, and finish a 14-hour overnight shift on your feet. You need to be genuinely fit — not just "okay" — and you need to be honest about that on day one.
Lifting: comfortable moving 25kg repeatedly, 50kg with a mate
Standing / kneeling: 12+ hours per shift on concrete floors
Awkward postures: reaching overhead, working under gaming bases, low crawl spaces
Stairs / ramps: often no lift access, carrying panels long distances.
Overnight endurance: 14-hour shifts, then travel home the next day
We don't test your fitness at interview. We trust you know your body. But if you can't do a solid day of hard physical work, this job will chew you up in a week — better to know now than three months in.
WHAT WE PAY — AND WE'LL PUT IT IN WRITING
Hourly structure
$32/hr base + 30% night loading (10pm–5am) = $*****/hr nights
Overtime hrs 9-10: $48/hr (1.5x base)
Overtime hrs 11+: $64/hr (2.0x base)
Saturdays +50%, Sundays +100%, public holidays +150%
$32/wk tool allowance + $20/shift night meal allowance
Real-world earnings examples
Single 14hr overnight shift: ~$700 + meal allowance
Standard week (2 × 14hr nights + 1 × 10hr day): ~$1,850
Realistic earnings: $70k–$95k depending on nights/interstate mix
38hr/wk minimum hours guaranteed even in dry weeks (filled with factory work, protection prep, training)
LEARN A TRADE — WE FUND YOUR CERT III
This isn't a dead-end labourer job.



If you last 12 months and the Leading Hand rates you 8/10 or better, we'll pay for your Cert III in Cabinet Making through an approved RTO. You keep working, we cover the fees, and once you finish you move to the qualified installer rate ($45/hr + loadings = $120k–$150k OTE).
Career path: Offsider → Qualified Installer → Senior Installer → Leading Hand → State Lead. We're opening QLD and VIC depots over the next 18 months.
INTERSTATE PACKAGE
Flights booked and paid by us
Private bedroom always — hotel single rooms, or Airbnb with a bedroom-per-crew-member. Never sharing.
Overnight Away from Home payment: $165/night tax-free (ATO-compliant), no receipts, paid every night away including travel days
Travel time paid at base hourly (door-to-hotel)
Day-use hotel for sleep before flying home after a 14hr overnight
$750/wk living-away allowance for stints over 7 nights
Return travel home every 14 days minimum on extended stints
Keep your frequent flyer points — hit Gold status on us
SCHEDULE VISIBILITY
Week 1 (next 7 days): LOCKED — confirmed jobs, dates, crew, hotels, flights
Week 2 (8–14 days): INDICATIVE — strong probability, plan around these
Week 3 ****** days): POSSIBLE — pencilled in, expect changes
If a Week 1 job is cancelled, you're paid for the day. If Week 2 cancels with <72hrs notice, half-day rate paid.
WHY CDW (BEYOND THE MONEY)
Premium product — "often copied, never replicated"
Named crew, not labour pool — crew shirts, MS Teams group, Friday debrief
We fund your Cert III when you earn it — real career, not a dead-end
38hr/wk minimum hours guaranteed — your pay never zero-outs in a quiet week
WHAT YOU MUST HAVE
Physical fitness — comfortable lifting 25kg repeatedly, standing/kneeling for 14hrs
White Card (General Construction Induction) — or willing to get one before you start (we'll help)
Driver's licence
Australian working rights
Willingness to travel interstate and work overnight as the normal pattern of work
Show up on time, every time. Take direction. Learn fast.
Nice to have but not required:
Any construction, joinery, warehousing or removalist background
Basic power-tool experience (drills, saws, sanders)
First aid certificate
Ex‐military, ex‐emergency services, ex-farmhand — used to physical, unpredictable days
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📌 Install Offsider / Labourer — Learn A Trade On The Job (Sydney)
🏢 Capital Design Works
📍 Sydney