Employer: Golden Banana Services Pty Ltd, The Trustee for Golden Banana Service Trust (Mackays Group)
Salary: Hourly Rate (Horticulture Award 2020 Level 4)
Employment Type: Casual
About the Role
Mackays Group are seeking Field and Shed workers for Level 4 roles within farming operations in Tully, QLD. Hours of Work are Monday to Thursday 6:30am to 4:40pm. We are looking for up to 20 candidates to begin in October 2026 for a period of 9 months.
This position is classified as Level 4 under the Horticulture Award 2020. All positions have on job training and potential for upskilling. The positions available are on Banana and Passionfruit farms reporting directly to the site Manager and the duties will include but are not limited to the following:
-Comply with all relevant workplace health and safety, environmental, and food safety regulations, while maintaining high-quality standards.
-Work closely with the Site Manager to manage production output, while satisfying seasonal fluctuations and supply and demand
-Ensure safe and efficient operations by overseeing pre-start checks, enforcing correct PPE usage and maintaining accurate and detailed records for daily production
-Work within the operational team as a trusted hand on jobs above the basic production operations in one of the below areas:
Forklift operations
Responsible for the protected and efficient operation of forklifts
- Responsible for all receivals and dispatch from the farm
- Carefully transport products to ensure the load is not damaged
- Prepare palletised product for cold storage and transport, including shrink wrap of pallets
- Liaise with Farm Manager and Shed Manager to co-ordinate load requirements
- Liaise with Shed Manager to ensure that correct information is being printed on the cartons as well as ensuring that a PPS carton is stacked on each pallet
- Ensure that the pallet is correctly stacked with the correct grades
- Ensure accurate records are kept of daily work schedule (e.g. load documentation)
- Prepare all dispatch paperwork for each load and ensure that the correct consignment is being loaded
- Monitor cold rooms for quality control
- Stocktake and management of all packing materials
- As well as any ad hoc duties within the competency of the employee
PPS/Quality control
- Inspect packed cartons for defects, carry out sampling in line with Quality Controls
- Ensure cartons are packed free of plant and soil – Biosecurity
- Complete necessary documentation and forms
- Determine minor or major defects and a follow corrective action to rectify
- Complete online Coles and Woolworths Assessments
- Carry out and record scrap line waste analysis
- Carry out and record bunch assessments
- As well as any ad hoc duties within the competency of the employee
Nursery worker
-Planning and conducting nursery work
-Produce and maintain seedlings
-Planting to dispatch of seedlings and plantlets to farms (planting, irrigating, crop husbandry)
-Transplanting
-Maintain accurate records
-Wash and sanitize all equipment. Ensure all tools and equipment are free of pest and disease.
-Carry out standard tasks; watering, transplanting, spacing, pruning.
-Report any equipment fault to the Manager.
-Comply with and actively support relevant Workplace Health and Safety and Environmental instructions and legislation
-Ensure personal protective equipment is always worn and maintained correctly
-Positively contribute to the task and work as part of a team
-Undertake training and follow work instructions
-Incidental/peripheral tasks within the skill, competence and training of the employee
Tractor operator
- Safely operating tractors and attaching various farm implements to support farm activities.
- Conducting essential pre-start checks to ensure machinery runs smoothly.
- Performing routine maintenance on tractors and equipment to keep everything in top condition.
- Applying chemical treatments and fertilisers
- Reporting any machine or equipment faults directly to the Workshop Maintenance team.
- Following and promoting Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) procedures.
- Taking on ad-hoc tasks as directed by the Farm Manager.
Workshop assistant
- Working underneath and reporting to a qualified mechanic as their workshop assistant strictly for horticultural equipment used on farming sites
- Weekly inspections to be completed on all farm plant and equipment
- Repairing, servicing and maintaining all farm plant and equipment
- Ensuring all service records are up to date
- maintain mechanical plant and equipment
- Positively contribute to the smooth running of the farm and work as part of a team
- Comply with and actively support relevant Workplace Health and Safety and Environmental instructions and legislation
- As well as any ad hoc duties within the competency of the employee
Qualifications/Skills
- No qualifications needed
- Experience with farming operations desired
- Strong attention to detail, communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work within a diverse team
Please apply via https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-AU/mfg/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/151
📌 Horticulture Worker Level 4 Roles (T) (Tully)
🏢 The trustee for Golden Banana Services Trust
📍 Tully
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