- Competitive salaries and employee perks!
- Collaborative culture with supportive management!
- Free parking on site and take-home food for you to enjoy!
The Business
Patties Food Group, founded in 1966 as a family-owned cake shop in Lakes Entrance, Victoria, has grown into a leading Australian manufacturer and supplier of pies, frozen savouries, meals, and desserts. Our portfolio includes iconic brands like Four'N Twenty, Patties, Herbert Adams, and Nanna's. We've recently expanded to international markets, exporting to Japan and the USA, and operate seven manufacturing plants across Australia and New Zealand. Our core values of Courage, Trust, Integrity, and Ownership guide our growth, and this is where great people like you come in!
About the Role
Reporting to the Site Maintenance Supervisor, you’ll play a key role in keeping our production facility running safely and efficiently. You’ll be responsible for installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing a wide range of mechanical systems and equipment across the site.
Patties Perth is a 24 hour food manufacturing facility, so this role requires flexibility to work rotational shifts across day, afternoon, and night shift patterns to support operational requirements.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Diagnose and repair mechanical faults in machinery,
- Perform preventive maintenance to keep equipment and systems reliable and reduce breakdowns.
- Install and upgrade mechanical systems of machinery
- Ensure safety and compliance with mechanical codes, standards, and workplace health & safety.
- Document and report maintenance activities including repairs, inspections, and system updates.
About You
You’re a trade-qualified Mechanical Fitter with previous experience in a similar maintenance role, ideally within food manufacturing or FMCG environments.
You thrive in fast-paced settings, enjoy solving problems, and take pride in keeping operations running smoothly.
Please note: You must have full Australian working rights, as sponsorship is not available for this position.
To be successful, you will bring:
- Experience with mechanical installation, maintenance, and repair of industrial or food processing equipment
- Strong fault-finding and troubleshooting skills across complex machinery and systems to meet production targets.
- Experience performing both breakdown response and preventive maintenance, including routine facility upkeep.
- Ability to read and interpret mechanical blueprints and technical drawings.
- Strong problem-solving, attention to detail, multitasking, and communication skills.
- A proactive mindset with the ability to identify and implement improvements in maintenance practices and plant performance.
- Computer literacy with experience using maintenance systems (e.g., MEX).
- Sound understanding of WHS principles and safety compliance
What We Offer
We're more than just food - we're about people, purpose, and culture. At Patties, you'll enjoy an array of benefits and employee perks!
- Fast paced & inclusive team environment
- Career security and development, within collaborative workplace culture
- Growth and development in your career
- Diversity in the work, no two days are the same.
- Generous perks and an unbeatable culture
- Permanent, full-time role
- On-site parking
Ready to join us?
If this sounds like the opportunity you’ve been looking for, we’d love to hear from you…apply today! Please note we are an Equal Opportunity Employer - everyone's welcome here, and we're committed to creating a respectful, inclusive place to work.
We do not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. No fee of any type will be paid in the event we hire a candidate whose resume is submitted by an employment agency to any of our employees without a valid written recruitment agreement. Such resumes shall be deemed the sole property of Patties Food Group