- Perform preventative and corrective maintenance to ensure high plant availability and equipment reliability.
- Collaborate with maintenance teams to plan, coordinate and safely execute mechanical work.
- Troubleshoot mechanical issues to deliver safe, efficient and cost‑effective maintenance solutions.
About the Role
The Mechanical Fitter roles are responsible for carrying out preventative and corrective maintenance to a range of plant equipment, systems and processes to help ensure plant availability and reliability.
Key responsibilities and challenges of the role include (but are not limited to):
- Maintaining reliability of plant and equipment.
- Building relationships across maintenance teams to perform work effectively.
- Organising maintenance activities involving others within the immediate work group.
- Technical problem solving to find safe and cost-efficient solutions.
- Responding to out of hours maintenance activities.
About You
- Mechanical Fitter Trade Certificate isessentialfor the role
- Experience in a Power Station environment or post-trade experience in a heavy industry environment is desired.
- Experience in using a computerised maintenance management system (plant isolation systems, work orders, requisitions, create and update documentation relating to role etc.).
- Building relationships across multi-disciplinary maintenance teams to perform work effectively.
- Dogging, rigging, and other relevant heavy‑industry tickets are required for the role, or applicants must be willing to obtain them.
Benefits:
- Recognised as an Endorsed Employer for all Women by WORK180
- Weekly pay + 12.75% super + annual incentive
- Full income protection cover
- Salary packaging options
- 4-day work week
- Buses provided from Kingaroy, Nanango and Yarraman
- On-site canteen services
- Access to learning and development (including LinkedIn learning)
- Purchased and volunteer leave options
- Health and wellbeing initiatives (e.g. EAP, Fitness Passport, skin checks, flu vaccines)
- Access to Bright Spark – our rewards, recognition and discounts platform
- Exceptional safety culture
- Plus, a whole lot more!
About Stanwell
Stanwell is Queensland’s largest and most reliable electricity generator. We’re applying our forty years of experience in operational excellence to building a diverse portfolio including coal-fired power stations, renewable generation, storage and firming to deliver Queensland’s future energy needs. Experience an organisation that lives by its values to care, adapt and deliver and is constantly responding to create an environment where respect, inclusivity, safety and wellbeing are delivered.
What’s next?
To submit your application, please apply online with your CV.
Applications close:11:55pm 14 October 2026
Further information on Stanwell can be found online atwww.stanwell.com
As part of the recruitment process, candidates may be required to undertake pre-employment checks (may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing).
Inclusion and diversity is an important part of shaping Stanwell’s culture and how our workplace operates. We recognise and value that it’s essential to creating a safe, inclusive, and productive workplace.
We are proactive about giving our people opportunities to excel and truly be themselves. We enable this through diversity, fairness, and flexible work practices.
If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of application.