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What this job is
A plastics factory worker operates and tends machinery on production lines in manufacturing facilities, processing raw plastic materials into finished products or components. They monitor equipment performance, feed materials into machines, remove finished goods, and perform quality checks and basic maintenance tasks to ensure continuous production output.
Pay
A$1,609 a week
This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.
Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
What this role asks for
- Adaptability and Flexibilitycore
- Attention to Detailcore
- Basic Arithmetic and Numerical Accuracycore
- Incident Reportingcore
- Inventory Trackingcore
- Multitaskingcore
- Policy and Procedure Adherencecore
- Problem Solvingcore
- Quality Assurance and Checkingcore
- Risk Identificationcore
- Team Collaborationcore
- Time Managementcore
- Active Listening
- Calculate materials to build equipment
- Clean building floors
- Clean equipment
- Clean surfaces
- Cleaning products
- Continuous Learning and Upskilling
- Goods Receipt Processing
- Process Improvement Identification
- Regulatory and Legislative Awareness
- Stock Counting and Stocktake
- Verbal Communication
- Workload Self-Management