Machine Operator
Visa sponsorship
Manufacturing · Queenstown, New Zealand · Full-Time · $70,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Operate packaging machinery in Queenstown as new equipment and automation enter production. The experienced operator prepares runs, adjusts machinery and recognises faults while maintaining consistent output and quality. The work can develop towards specialist packaging machinery, automation and production optimisation responsibility.
Eligible international applicants may be considered for sponsorship.
Use an English CV to describe the machinery you operate and how you set up and troubleshoot it. build a packaging machinery and production operator CV with examples of changeovers, basic maintenance and quality checks. Explain your role in commissioning or improving equipment where that experience is part of your work.
Key Responsibilities
- Safely start and run packaging and production machinery, completing setup, product changeovers and precise adjustments.
- Monitor the line and respond quickly to performance changes, stoppages, faults and unusual behaviour, using mechanical knowledge to identify causes.
- Clean, lubricate and maintain equipment routinely and monitor product quality and machine performance.
- Record production and complete paperwork to food safety, quality and health and safety procedures.
- Assist packaging, kegging, warehousing and finished-product movements.
- Help install, commission, test and optimise automated machinery, reduce stoppages and take ownership of assigned equipment condition and performance.
Requirements & Eligibility
- A minimum of 2 years in machine operation or manufacture and practical production or industrial machinery experience as a Machine Operator or Production Operator.
- Sound mechanical knowledge and troubleshooting, comfortable with setup and precise adjustments and quick fault recognition and cause analysis.
- Some basic mechanical maintenance and equipment care experience, putting workplace safety and production quality first.
- Careful machine and finished-product checks and a practical hands-on approach, working independently and accepting machinery performance responsibility.
- Interest in modern machinery, automation and production technology.
- Packaging, canning, bottling, food or beverage production experience is advantageous, with evidence supporting machinery and production experience.
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