Work available now for tradespeople
DESPITE great conditions, a collaborative team environment and constant on-the-job learning, Fletcher International’s maintenance division is struggling to find enough tradies.
Fletcher HR manager Maddy Herbert says the jobs are challenging and rewarding and hopes the company can find local people to fill the roles.
“At the moment we’re looking for tradespeople to join our pretty dynamic maintenance team – we need electricians, fitters and a plumber,” Ms Herbert told Dubbo
“We’d love to see these positions filled by locals and the opportunity this presents is to work in a team environment, close to home, with a set roster and with above-award wages.”
Ms Herbert says working in a large processing plant environment teaches the company’s tradies lessons they won’t learn anywhere else.
“We’ve seen so many highly skilled tradespeople come into our plant and they’ll tell you that they’re still learning new things every day,” she said.
“A lot of the infrastructure that we have set up is what we’ve built on-site, tailored to our specific purpose, so often it’s not something that even very experienced tradies have been exposed to before. So the opportunity to grow your skills is immense at any age and starting from any skill level.
“There’s also unparalleled support, you’re working in a maintenance crew of 50 people, they’re there as a team and they’re there to support you – you’re not stuck out on a job site on your own with only a mobile phone to try and find someone to give you a hand. The rest of the crew is boots on the ground with you every single day,” she explained.
The jobs create daily challenges to learn something new and there’s the resource of the varied skills and experience of all the crew members to fall back on.
“The guys are willing to share information with each other, knowing that not only can they share what they know, but that they can learn from each other as well.
“There’s people from all different backgrounds. Some have worked in other industries such as in the mines, and they’ve come home for all sorts of reasons like being able to go home at the end of the day and spend that time with their families, so they’re bring all their experience with them and passing that on as well,” Ms Herbert said.
“So many people have different knowledge of WHS and Quality Assurance, things that they’ve learnt from their former job sites,” she said, adding that the Fletcher’s workplace brings together a wide range of experiences and skills that the on-site tradies are able to share with each other.