About $47–$51/hr + Super | Permanent Full-Time

Monday–Friday | Dayshift 5:00am–2:00pm | 9-day fortnight

Join a plastics manufacturing site, lead a small team while staying hands‑on, with the chance to move into a more senior leadership role over the next few years.

Why Join?

About $47–$51/hr + Super

Permanent full-time

Monday–Friday | Dayshift 5:00am–2:00pm

9-day fortnight

(5 days one week, 4 days the next – every second Monday RDO)

This role around 60% leading / 40% hands‑on

Lead a small team of around 5 people

Career Progression:

Opportunity to move towards a 90% leading / 10% hands‑on role over the next few years, with greater inventory & maintenance management responsibility.

You will do:

- Team Leadership: Lead around 5 people across maintenance and production.
- Workshop:



Allocate jobs and coordinate daily workshop activities.
- Maintenance: Repair and maintain equipment, including injection moulding machines.
- Troubleshooting: Handle mechanical issues and basic PLC fault‑finding.
- Improvement: Help transition maintenance systems from paper to digital and bring outsourced work in‑house.

You have:

Previous Leading Hand or Supervisory experience

(We have multiple similar opportunities available across Melbourne. Feel free to get in touch for a confidential discussion.)

All applications and enquiries will be handled with strict confidentiality.

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📌 Workshop Leading Hand (Maintenance) (Melbourne)
🏢 Linktal Recruitment
📍 Melbourne