service technician

fitter

mechanic

operations manager

hydraulic technician

Pirtek

Management have made many promises to staff over pay, progression, changes around the workshop etc, in my experience they have never come through on their word.

There is a blame culture and management are setting the example. I have seen staff unwell or taking personal days for their childrens health and they have been harassed by management for being soft or not coming in when we were busy, this has gone as far as to harass someone while their sister was in hospital in an induced coma.  

Pirtek has on multiple occassions decided to ignore contractory obligations towards their staff training (even when disputed heavily), and have harassed and bullied staff into skipping their breaks when they feel they are too busy to allow it, even when they are aware that the staff have started early and will be finishing late (12 hour days on occassion).

other than these are many other examples, Pirtek is a busy and generally interesting place to work if you can tolerate the lack of appreciation and poor pay for most positions.

A typical day at Pirtek in the workshop was continuously making hydraulic hoses for customers like Bechtel, Qal, over the counter sales, source and pack customer orders ready for delivery, off load trucks of stock, things I learnt most was to be more diverse.

Loved working with the nutty bunch of monkeys I worked with, they are a great bunch of people, first time i'd worked with 457's and it was an experience, best bit was getting them to be more Australian. I love working with blokes over ladies that's just me!!!!

Don't think there was a hardest part of the job, cause if you love doing what your doing it's not hard. Love working in hydraulics. 

Most enjoyable was having great workmates that always gave me a good laugh and good customers. Best part was when you tell the customer I won't be a moment i'll just make your hose, some are quite surprised it's me making their hose and not one of the fitters.

All  good  
Only us workers should do our part and go home 
Management are so friendly to us 
Learning new things everyday
Visiting new sites every month 
Hardest part of working is the time of on call after hours 
The most important thing is that once you stuck in a job site there's a mate is calling you again how are you doing mate it encourages to push on with what we are best at doing 
WE WILL KEEP YOU OPERATING 
That's all mate chiz


Pirtek Ltd provided me with space to learn and develop skills to be an unsupervised stores person.
Throughout the day, I would pick and pack orders ensuring that all orders carried out were 100% accurate at a high speed.
A range of cultural diverse within the company helped to make every day interesting and more enjoyable.

Training was excellent thereafter you were left to move around the area attending to work callouts refered to you by management.  On call every three weeks and when not actually seeing to hose replacement calling in to see customers.

This company were good to me with my hours being a single mum. The pay was good aswell. Apart from that there really isn't really that nice about it. I didn't learn much from them as I put in charge of there SMC Pneumatics products to sell over the phone or at the counter.

Tasks - good
Hours - standard for role / office job
Salary - low/average for a senior position 
Colleagues - great 
Upper Management - OK to marginal
Work life balance - average

Worked really hard there for a year and a bit and they just used me as cheep labour, targeted me no and off 
And not a good work life balance 
Management would complain if you and a life outside of work and if you weren’t really happy about doing overtime you would get yelled at 

Run Far Run fast.

Zero innovation, do as I say, do not think type attitudes. 
Management foster a fear culture to maintain control  and any form of expense requires an ROI analysis that would leave the frugalist Scotsman weeping.

 





Pirtek was a great place to work enjoyed a varied range of topics, good staff, fast paced and required a hands on approach.

Long hours and dedication to the job where required also alot of attention to detail to make sure of the health and safety of staff and customers.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Service technician 5 salaries reported	$42.50 per hour
Fitter 2 salaries reported	$97,700 per year
Mechanic 1 salary reported	$72,500 per year
Operations manager 2 salaries reported	$103,310 per year
Hydraulic technician 1 salary reported	$37.50 per hour

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