Trade Assistant / Brush Hands - Opportunity to learn
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Trade Assistant / Brush Hand at Eptec performing surface and paint preparation, general site maintenance, manual handling, and equipment operation in a corrosion protection and industrial painting environment.
About this role
About Us:
The Eptec Group is Australasia’s leading corrosion mitigation and protection company specialising in all aspects of corrosion prevention. Our Total Asset Protection solutions and services include Corrosion management; Blasting, painting and remediation of concrete and steel structures; Lining and waterproofing; Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Structural Strengthening; Cathodic Protection (CP); and Pipeline Electrical Hazard Assessments.
Eptec delivers across a diverse range of industry sectors, including naval, defence, marine, transport and infrastructure. Recent projects of the Eptec Group include Warragamba Dam Pipeline, Brisbane X-River Rail, Sydney Metro Trains, Old Murray Bridge, Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD’s), Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV’s) and the previous four Collins Class Submarine Full Cycle Dockings (FCD’s) in SA.
About the role:
We are seeking Trade Assistants and Brush Hands to join our growing team, based at Osborne, SA.
- Surface and paint preparation.
- General site maintenance
- Manual Handling/Laboring
- Usage of equipment's and hand power tools.
- Working in confined spaces
- Overtime and some weekend work available
- Opportunity for training & development
Skills/Experience:
- Industrial spray painter experience (Highly advantageous)
- Painting-decorating / Roller/brush experience (Handy)
- Strong safety mindset
- Hold a Nationally Accredited OHS Card (White/Blue Card)
- High Risk Tickets e.g. FL, EWP, confined space (desirable)
- Minimum 2-3 years demonstrated experience ideally.
- Team player and safety-first attitude
Join a dynamic and diverse team
At Eptec, our values foster a collaborative, caring, performance-focused culture that supports a safe and secure working environment for all our teams, stakeholders and clients. We are committed to a workplace culture that strongly supports diversity and inclusion and we welcome applications from across the community.
We are keen to invest in individuals with the right attitude, who want to progress their career. We will support the successful candidate with training and development, and we provide a great working environment, with and highly competitive remuneration.
The successful candidate will be required to pass a pre-employment process including a medical and police check.
To find out more about EPTEC please view our website at: www.eptec.com.au
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