Junior Maintenance Fitter / Technician - Food ManufacturingWorking alongside our Lead Maintenance Fitter, you'll help keep our production equipment running reliably while developing your skills across preventative maintenance, breakdowns, machine improvements and general mechanical work.
Our Lead Maintenance & Production Supervisor works from approximately 6:00am–2:30pm, while this role will generally work 10:00am–6:00pm, providing an overlap for training and larger maintenance jobs while extending maintenance coverage across our production day.Key responsibilitiesAssisting with preventative and scheduled maintenance across production equipmentResponding to production breakdowns and mechanical issuesWorking alongside our Lead Fitter to diagnose and repair machineryWorking with bearings, belts, chains, sprockets, rollers, conveyors, motors and other mechanical componentsMachine setup, adjustments and changeoversBasic fabrication, welding and modifications where capableAssisting with the installation and commissioning of new equipmentIdentifying opportunities to improve equipment reliability and production efficiencyMaintaining workshop areas,



tools and maintenance equipmentRecording maintenance work and recurring equipment issuesAbout youMechanically minded, practical and keen to learnEnjoys understanding how machinery worksComfortable working with their handsCan diagnose problems logically rather than simply replacing partsTakes pride in fixing things properlyReliable and comfortable working independentlyWants to learn from an experienced fitterInterested in developing a long-term career in manufacturing maintenanceUnderstands that production uptime matters and responds accordinglyExperience with welding, fabrication, electrical fault finding, pneumatics, food manufacturing or packaging machinery would be advantageous but isn't essentialAbout usGeneral Foods is a growing food manufacturer based in Thomastown, Melbourne.
We manufacture a broad range of snack products across multiple production lines, with capabilities including bars, balls, chocolate enrobing, cooling, flow wrapping and other food manufacturing processes.
We're actively investing in current manufacturing equipment and expanding our production capabilities.
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📌 Junior Maintenance Fitter / Technician - Food Manufacturing (Melbourne)
🏢 General Foods
📍 Melbourne