Location: Yeerongpilly, QLD
Employment type: Casual full-time (with a pathway to a permanent leadership role)
Pay rate: $60 per hour + super
Work pattern: Tuesday to Friday standard. Mondays you must be available for additional work as required.
A major national rail and infrastructure operator is seeking a qualified Electrical Maintainer to support maintenance and operational activities across specialised rail plant and infrastructure machinery. This is a hands-on position suited to an experienced industrial electrician who enjoys fault finding, preventative maintenance, and working directly with large equipment in a high-compliance environment.
This role is casual full-time initially, with genuine long-term opportunity for the right candidate to step into a permanent leadership pathway.
Key responsibilities
- Electrical and mechanical maintenance of plant and infrastructure machinery
- Fault finding, troubleshooting, repairs, and minor modifications
- Operation of specialised machinery (where trained and authorised)
- Preventative and reactive maintenance to support reliability and availability targets
- Maintenance reporting and documentation in SAM
- Strict adherence to safety, operational, and site procedures
- Additional trade and operator duties as required
Essential
- Electrical trade qualification (Cert III or equivalent)
- Strong industrial maintenance background
- Proven fault-finding and diagnostic capability
- Mechanical aptitude and practical, hands-on approach
- Experience working on heavy plant or industrial equipment
- Reliable transport
- Availability for Mondays, and flexibility for weekends and varying hours when required
- Clear communication skills and ability to work well in a team
- Current White Card
- Experience with motors, sensors, automation, and PLCs
- Exposure to industrial control systems
- Maintenance planning or scheduling exposure (not essential)
- SARC
- RIW
- Casual full-time hours with a consistent Tuesday to Friday pattern
- Competitive casual rate at $60 per hour + super
- Work on specialised, large-scale rail and infrastructure equipment
- Long-term opportunity with a clear pathway into a permanent leadership role
At Chandler Macleod, we are committed to fostering a diverse workforce where everyone is welcome. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, neurodiverse, people living with a disability and the LGBTIQA+ community.
You can read more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion at https://www.chandlermacleod.com/diversity-and-inclusion.
