If you're welding the same brackets every day, this is the other kind of boilermaking.

Buckets and attachments that have been brutally broken by operators. A snapped boom for an OEM customer that needs it log spec'd. Quick crack repairs on site to keep a customer's machine moving. Plate work and one-off fabrications off a drawing or a sketch. That's the fab floor at Metro Machining - a line boring and engineering business at Campbellfield - and we need a trade-qualified boilermaker to run it with us. A trade-qualified fitter with solid fabrication experience will get a look too.

Here's why it's worth a phone call:

The work is the real thing.

Heavy repair for mining, quarry, civil, earthmoving and industrial customers. Every job is different and most of them are urgent - you'll see the machine you fixed go back to work.

You’re not stuck manufacturing the same part.

The fab floor sits next to a full machine shop and a line boring crew that works from the Latrobe Valley to the Pacific. You'll weld it, then see it bored and pinned next door - and you'll learn rotary ID welding, pin and bush work and the machining side of a repair along the way. Few boilermaking jobs in Melbourne teach you that.

You work directly with the owners.

There's no leading hand between you and the directors on fabrication. They're on the floor and on the trucks, they set the method with you, and they'd rather take a call than see rework.

Paid properly for what you bring.

Casual hourly rate negotiated on your skills and track record, overtime at penalty multiples, a site rate when you're out. Tell us the rate you're after.

Casual to start, not casual forever.

We're adding fabrication capacity because the customers are already bringing us the gear.



If the workload holds up and you're the right person, this turns into a permanent position.

Casual, paid by the hour, Monday to Friday. Reports to the Operations Manager; the directors are your technical lead on the fab floor.

This is heavy work. If you're after a bench job welding brackets and sheet metal, this isn't it. If you've rebuilt a bucket, gouged out a crack in a boom and welded it back up properly, keep reading.

Who we are

A few years ago we were two blokes in a shed with one lathe, one mill and one little line boring truck. Today it's three workshops across Campbellfield and Drouin, five self-contained mobile machining trucks, and a crew that has taken line boring and in office machining from the Latrobe Valley to the Pacific. When a job needs tooling that doesn't exist, we build it ourselves.

Our fabrication floor sits next to the machine shop. That's the point of it: a customer's bucket, attachment or housing comes in, we fabricate and weld it, bore it, make the pins and bushes and put it back together without shipping the gear between three different trades. Ask for a copy of our capacity handbook when you apply and we'll send it through.

The work

Repair and rebuild work for mining, quarry, civil, earthmoving and industrial customers. Their plant is down and they're waiting on us, so it has to be right the first time.



A typical run of jobs:

- Bucket and attachment rebuilds - wear plate, base edges, side cutters, adapters and teeth
- Structural crack repair on booms, sticks, frames and housings - gouge it out, prep it, weld it, dress it
- Wear packages and hardfacing on gear that cops a hiding
- Weld reclamation on worn bores, pins and faces, including rotary ID welding alongside our line borers
- Plate work and structural fabrication - brackets, guards, frames, custom tooling and one-off fabrications off a drawing or a sketch
- Attachment modifications, plus fitting and assembly around what you've welded - pressing bushes, fitting pins
- One-offs and small batches, not production runs. You read the drawing (or measure the broken one when there isn't a drawing), work out the prep and the sequence, weld it, check it and hand it over knowing it's right.

You’ll also be put on jobs across the rest of the business. When the fab floor is quiet or the crew needs hands, you’ll be assisting the line borers and the machinists - stripping and refitting around a bore, pulling and pressing pins and bushes, lancing, rigging and lifting, running the ID welder, or going out as the second person on a line boring truck. That's part of the job, not a favour. It’s also where you learn the machining side of a repair.

What you'd be working with

- MIG and stick welding, arc-air gouging, OD and rotary ID welding
- Welding positioners and rotators
- 200 t and 100 t hollow presses, thermic lancing kit, and liquid nitrogen for cold-fitting bushes and bearings
- 10 t forklift and lifting gear for heavy components
- A mobile service fleet for s

📌 boilermaker fabricator (Melbourne)
🏢 Metro Machining
📍 Melbourne