Machine Operator
Visa sponsorship
Manufacturing · Queenstown, New Zealand · Full-Time · $70,000/yr · Visa: Employer sponsored
A packaging operation in Queenstown, New Zealand, is bringing in new equipment and more automation, and it wants an experienced Machine Operator who can keep production moving. You will run machinery, make adjustments, catch faults early and hold output to a steady standard.
Your know-how will also help improve how the equipment performs, and over time the role can grow into a specialist position in packaging machinery, automation and production optimisation. Eligible international applicants may be considered for sponsorship, which makes it worth a look from Malaysians working in manufacturing.
Put the machines you have run, your changeover and fault-finding examples and your maintenance tasks on a Queenstown machine operator CV from Build AI CV.
Key Responsibilities
- Start up and run the packaging and production machines, keeping safety first
- Get machines ready for each run, including set-up, product changeovers and fine adjustments
- Stay with the line during production and react quickly if performance slips
- Spot stoppages, faults and odd machine behaviour, then work out the cause with your mechanical know-how
- Handle cleaning, lubrication and routine upkeep
- Keep an eye on product quality and on how the equipment is running
- Record production figures and complete the paperwork the job needs
- Work within food safety, quality and health and safety procedures
- Pitch in with packaging, kegging, warehousing and finished-product movement
- Be part of installing, commissioning, testing and optimising new automated machinery
- Find ways to reduce stoppages and keep production moving
- Own the performance and condition of the equipment you are given
Requirements & Eligibility
- A minimum of 2 years in machine operating or manufacturing
- Hands-on history running production or industrial machinery, in a role such as Machine Operator or Production Operator
- Sound mechanical knowledge, with the troubleshooting skills to match
- Comfortable setting up machines and making precise operational adjustments
- Quick to recognise equipment faults and trace what caused them
- Some experience with basic mechanical maintenance and equipment care
- Puts workplace safety and production quality first
- Careful and detail-minded when checking machines and finished products
- A practical, hands-on way of working
- Works well alone and takes ownership of how machinery performs
- Curious about automation, modern machinery and production technology
- Packaging, canning, bottling, food or beverage production experience is advantageous
- Can provide evidence backing up your machinery and production experience
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