About Select Plant Australia

Select Plant Australia is one of the largest specialist plant hire service providers in Australia, playing an integral role in the delivery of a wide variety of high-quality and innovative construction projects as part of the Laing O'Rourke Group.

Our primary driver is to guarantee the provision of the highest quality plant and associated services to Laing O'Rourke construction projects and the wider market. Select Plant Australia provides a full service offering through it six major plant categories of Rail, Civil/Heavy Plant, Cranes, Fleet, General Plant and Site Solutions (accommodation and buildings).

Laing O'Rourke has grown into a $6 billion international engineering enterprise dedicated to challenging and changing the face of construction worldwide, Select Plant Australia has mirrored the growth of the parent company, servicing a larger portfolio of projects with a significant growth strategy in coming years.

Select Plant Australia is the only total solutions provider within the plant industry and continues to grow and maintain one of the broadest plant ranges and capabilities within its global markets.

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About The Role

Join our dynamic team at Select Plant Australia! We are currently looking for a meticulous and proactive Yard Hand to coordinate our inventory, and support our workshop and site operations.

This role will be located at our modern Select Plant Australia - Laverton North Depot on a permanent, full-time basis, under the support of a collaborative and inclusive team.

If successful, you will be responsible for the safe working of the yard and stores area. Reporting to the workshop supervisor, you will coordinate the incoming and outgoing deliveries, traffic, and general storage of plant and equipment. With varying internal and external clients, you will be pivotal to the smooth running of the depot, and a valued contributor to our highly experienced maintenance team.

Key Responsibilities

• Store receivals, checking of deliveries.  
• Identifying damaged and/or incorrectly supplied of goods.
• Completing delivery dockets for outgoing goods, plant, and equipment.
• Packing and loading of goods for internal and external customers.
• Inventory management, stock-taking and tracking of workshop consumables.
• Loading and unloading of goods from internal and external transport carriers.
• Assisting various tradespersons.
• Assisting with dropping off and picking up items/materials.
• General yard duties, housekeeping, machine cleaning and waste management.  
• Carry out prestart checks on plant and equipment.
• Report machinery faults and safety concerns.
• Accurately complete paperwork as required by stores and workshop team.
• Monitor yard access, coordinating safe and efficient traffic flow, and minimise congestion.

About You

The successful applicant will have experience in a similar role in a logistics, plant hire or construction environment. You will be safety orientated, motivated, reliable, and have excellent communication skills. We are looking for a self-starter, who takes pride and ownership in their work, and has the desire to drive best-practise operational processes. 

Minimum Requirements:

To be considered for the role, you'll need to hold the minimum requirements below:

• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in similar role.
• Australian driver's licence – Manual C Class (minimum).
• Australian Construction Induction Card (Blue/White Card).
• Unrestricted Australian Working Rights
• Current Forklift ticket
• Intermediate computer literacy
• Physically Fit  
• Willingness to learn/upskill to add value to the Select Operations support team.

Advantageous but not essential:

• Manual HR Licence
• High Risk Work License: CV, CN, C6, WP, RB, DG
• Load Restraint Awareness Training
• Chain of Responsibility awareness
• Certificate: Loading and Unloading of Plant and Equipment

Successful candidates will be required to complete a national criminal history check and a pre-employment medical as part of the recruitment process.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on major local and remote infrastructure construction projects.
• Be mentored by our highly experienced industry maintenance experts.
• Modern air-conditioned workshop with safe and comfortable facilities
• Career progression through mentorship and OEM and inhouse Training for new equipment.

Benefits

We work hard to create an environment that brings out the best in our people. We believe in building careers through providing a safe, connected and innovative culture that supports ongoing growth and development. We offer industry-leading benefits such as specialised learning and development programs, a mental health and wellbeing program, industry leading paid parental leave policy, family friendly work practices, additional purchased leave option and coaching programs for staff on parental leave.

Diversity & Inclusion

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work. We recognise the increasing importance of flexible work arrangements and family friendly work practices to enable and maintain a diverse, adaptive and high performing workforce.

As a proud RAP organisation, Laing O'Rourke is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Download our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan at www.laingorourke.com.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be considered.