About the role

You'll be responsible for getting the maximum productive output from our CNC routing operation while maintaining the quality our customers expect. This isn't a role where someone will stand over your shoulder telling you what job to run next. We want someone who can look at the workload, understand the priorities and own their day.

Key responsibilities

- Setting up and operating CNC routers

- Programming and preparing CNC jobs

- Reading drawings and checking dimensions

- Planning jobs to maximise machine utilisation

- Preparing the next job while the current job is running

- Selecting tooling, feeds and speeds appropriate to the material and job

- Cutting acrylic, polycarbonate, HDPE, UHMWPE, acetal, nylon and other engineering plastics

- Completing quality checks and maintaining high standards

- Managing material efficiently and reducing unnecessary waste

- Keeping your work area and machines organised

About you

- Have solid CNC routing, machining or manufacturing experience

- Understand CNC programming and machine setup

- Can read technical drawings confidently

- Have excellent time-management skills

- Naturally plan ahead rather than waiting to be told what to do

- Care about quality and getting things right





- Can handle multiple jobs and changing priorities

- Look after machinery as though it were your own

- Work well independently

- Want to improve, learn and progress your career

About us

Holland Plastics is part of HB Plastics Group, a growing Australian plastics fabrication and distribution business. We cut, machine and fabricate everything from everyday plastic components through to complex custom jobs for commercial and industrial customers. We're ambitious about where we're going. But we don't want to become one of those big companies where nobody knows anybody. Our philosophy is straightforward: Big enough to be noticed. Small enough to care.

Benefits

- Full-time, stable employment

- Competitive remuneration based on experience and capability

- A growing business with genuine career progression

- Variety – we're not running the same component 10,000 times every day

- A team that values initiative and good ideas

- Management that notices high performers

- A workplace where you're trusted to do your job

- The opportunity to have a genuine impact on how the department operates

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