Why join us

- Permanent, full-time trade role with an immediate start

- $51.75 per hour including the 15% afternoon shift loading ($45 base), plus Saturday overtime

- Predictable afternoon shift hours, Monday to Friday, and paid after-hours call-outs

- Family-owned business, established in South Australia in 1954, offering reliable long-term employment

About the role

Pope Packaging is an Australian manufacturer of paper, plastic and textile packaging products in an exciting phase of growth. We started in Adelaide in 1954 making textile bags and now supply paper, plastic and textile packaging Australia wide. We’ve just installed our third Windmoller & Holscher papersack machine, one of the finest of its kind in the world, and our maintenance team is what keeps it and the rest of the plant running.

Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, you’ll join our small maintenance team, responsible for machinery, plant and equipment across the site. The work runs from breakdown response and diagnostics through to preventative maintenance, manufacturing tuber knives, and light fabrication. You’ll also keep spares at sensible levels, order parts, maintain repair records, and deal with contractors on servicing and major repairs. Project work comes up regularly as we bring in new equipment.

This is a role for someone who takes ownership. You will often be the person who works out what the fault is and how to fix it, and you’ll have the room to do it properly rather than patch it. The W&H; machines are not like anything else in Adelaide, so the first stretch is a genuine learning curve.

You’ll spend it working alongside our Maintenance Supervisor and our longest-serving fitter, who know this plant better than anyone. We’re looking for someone who takes guidance as readily as they give it.

Because production runs on tight schedules,



the maintenance team shares responsibility for call-outs when a breakdown happens outside ordinary hours, and a Saturday shift is rostered each week. Call-outs and Saturday work are paid at overtime rates in accordance with the Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award.

Afternoon shift: 2.00 pm to 10.06 pm, Monday to Friday

Saturday overtime: 6.00 am to 2.06 pm, rostered weekly, paid at Award overtime rates

Training: First few weeks on day shift, 6.00 am to 2.06 pm, learning the plant alongside the team. The 15% loading is still paid throughout.

Call-outs: Shared across the maintenance team, paid at call-out rates in accordance with the Award

What we’re looking for

- Trade qualified fitter, fitter and turner, or mechanical trade equivalent (Certificate III in Engineering - Mechanical Trade or similar)

- Experience maintaining production machinery in a fast paced manufacturing environment

- Strong fault finding and diagnostic skills across mechanical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems

- Confident with light fabrication and welding

- Able to work unsupervised, set your own priorities and see a job through to the end

- Open to learning unfamiliar plant and working closely with a small team

- Available for call-outs and rostered Saturday overtime

- Commitment to workplace health and safety, and to working within our SOPs

- Full and unrestricted Australian working rights (sponsorship is not available)

Well regarded, though not essential:

- Restricted electrical licence

- Experience on high-speed converting, printing or packaging machinery

Pre-Employment Requirements

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment medical and drug and alcohol screening.

How to Apply

Click Apply Now and submit your current resume. Please note that interviews may commence before the closing date, and only successful candidates will be contacted.

Applications from recruitment agencies and third parties will not be accepted.

📌 Maintenance Fitter - Afternoon Shift (Full-Time) (Wingfield)
🏢 Pope Packaging
📍 Wingfield