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At Highland Pine we share a firm belief that the key to our future is our employees, therefor Employee Development and Safety is paramount within our organisation across all sites and operations.

Highland Pine prides itself on being an employer of choice within the Oberon and Central West NSW region. We recognise our employees as being the most important resource and engrain a strong culture of team and initiative.

Highland Pine is always looking for the ‘right’ people to join our team.

For a summary of Highland Pine, the recruitment process and contact details Download our “Career Information Sheet” Below:

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Current Vacancies

2025 Apprenticeship Intake:

Expressions of Interest

Date Listed: 15-10-24

Closing Date:

Description:

Highland Pine invests in our employees’ future through development and training opportunities catering to a wide range of people and their chosen career paths.

You will gain valuable experience with our industry and trade experts and complete a trade certificate that will support your chosen career. These great opportunities require commitment and a desire to learn and grow.

Our 2025 Apprenticeship intake covers the following streams:
• Electrical
• Fitting & Turning
• Saw Technician (Saw Doctor)
• Wood Machinist

What we offer:
• A career in a sustainable industry
• Diverse and inclusive workplace
• Regional location
• Continual development and training opportunities

Who you will be joining:
Based in Oberon NSW, Highland Pine Products is a joint venture company between industry leaders AKD Softwoods and Pentarch Forestry. Driven by a workforce of over 200, Highland Pine manufactures sustainable quality timber products used predominantly as house frames and trusses.

For further information, please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au

All applicants will be contacted.

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Job Title:

Maintenance Manager

Date Listed: 27-8-24

Closing Date:

Description:

Drive maintenance execution and strategy in a people-focused leadership role

• Lead a multi-discipline team of maintenance specialists and contractors
• Impressive facility with a track record of ongoing investment in plant upgrades
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement across an impressive facility

About Your New Role

Reporting directly into the General Manager and forming part of the Senior Leadership Team, you will lead a team of maintenance specialists and contractors, driving both maintenance execution and strategy across this impressive facility. In being a key driver in seamless safe operations across the site, key aspects of your role will include:

  • Leading a reliability centred maintenance program, with a focus on utilisation of effective oil testing and thermography tools
  • Develop the site’s maintenance plan, with the goal of minimising plant down time and reliance on major shut periods
  • Driving a maintenance culture of continuous improvement across the organisation
  • Engaging effectively with the broader business, particularly with Production and Project teams, to ensure strong collaboration and ultimately production efficiency
  • Ongoing development of your maintenance team as well as longer term succession planning

This is a great opportunity if you’re looking for a position with a focus across both maintenance and people leadership, high levels of influence, within an organisation that has a track record of investing in the ongoing improvement and upgrade of their assets.

About You

You’ll bring depth of maintenance leadership experience within manufacturing, processing or broader industrial environments and hold either trade or tertiary qualifications in engineering, project management or a related field. As this is a people-focused role, you will have strong people leadership experience, with a focus on mentoring and development, as well as the ability to drive a culture of safety and continuous improvement. Your stakeholder engagement capability will also be critical, to ensure effective collaboration across the organisation.
If you’re ready to take the lead in a dynamic and impactful role, that will shape the future of maintenance excellence,

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Job Title:

Process Operators

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description:

We are currently seeking Process Operators at our Oberon site. Reporting to the Process Supervisor.

Process Operators
Highland Pine Products is currently seeking applications to fill several positions for Process Operators, reporting to the Shift Supervisor.
These positions may be used in the Dry Mill, Green Mill or the Kilns/Boiler.
The Operators’ primary role is to ensure that the operation of the mill is adhered to against set specifications, standards, quality and WHS practices and procedures.
To be successful you will:
• Mechanical aptitude and familiarity with machine parts
• Able to fault find and diagnose machinery problems
• Demonstrate commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
• Be safety and quality conscious
• Carry out manual handling tasks
• Good hand/eye co-ordination
• Be available for shift work, both weekdays and weekends when required
• Have experience in the timber processing industry and/or similar exposure to continuous production line operations. Although this is not essential, it would be highly regarded
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills with good computer skills.
You will be a team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills and able to operate collaboratively with your work group and with internal/external stakeholders
Applications should include a cover letter and resume addressing the above requirements.

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Job Title:

Mechanical Fitter

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description:

We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Mechanical Fitter to join the Maintenance Team. Your key responsibilities will include providing support and technical expertise for the maintenance of plant and equipment and assisting the Engineering and Production teams in improving the plant’s preventative maintenance and reliability programs to minimise plant down time. The position will include weekend shifts and may also require overtime and callouts as required.

Mechanical Fitter
We are currently seeking a dedicated and experienced Mechanical Fitter to join the Maintenance Team. Your key responsibilities will include providing support and technical expertise for the maintenance of plant and equipment and assisting the Engineering and Production teams in improving the plant’s preventative maintenance and reliability programs to minimise plant down time. The position will include weekend shifts and may also require overtime and callouts as required.
Due to continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for an energetic, self-motivated problem-solver with a mechanical trade who is looking for an exciting challenge. Reporting to the Shift Team Leader you will have experience with providing solutions and technical expertise for the hands-on maintenance of plant and equipment.

The position is key to supporting the production team and improving the plant’s preventative maintenance and reliability programs.

This position also offers an attractive hourly rate with opportunity for overtime.

You will have demonstrated experience in:

• An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety

• Preventative maintenance and continuous improvement

• Performing breakdown works efficiently to support production teams

• Analysing and rectification of faults

• Ensuring compliance to all relevant standards

• Planning, organising and ability to prioritise tasks

• Willing to work as part of the broader maintenance team and coordinate activities with regard to operational requirements

And the following skills and qualifications:

• Mechanical trade certificate

• Problem solving skills

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Basic computer literacy

For further information, please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au

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Job Title:

Saw Doctor / Saw Technician

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description:

We are offering an excellent opportunity for an energetic and self-motivated person to join our high performing team of saw doctors

At 1,113 metres, Oberon is the highest town in the Blue Mountains enjoying four distinct seasons including perfect summers and intermittent snow falls in winter. We are a friendly, caring rural community with a thriving economy. Our main industries are timber, tourism and innovative farming providing a stable employment base for the town. Oberon’s country lifestyle – clean air, sparse traffic, crisp alpine climate, friendly people, sense of community, safe environment and some the most spectacular scenery in NSW makes it a great place to live and work.

Highland Pine Products (HPP) is a joint venture company between Pentarch and AKD Softwoods.  Highland Pine Products employs 225 people and produces dressed timber and treated timber to be used as house frames and trusses.

We are offering an excellent opportunity for an energetic and self-motivated person to join our high performing team of Saw Doctors.

Key duties & responsibilities will include:

  • An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
  • Excellence in maintaining sawing machines, tools, and performance to a high standard
  • Working with the team to complete alignments, services and monitoring sawing machines across the sites
  • Be multi skilled across a number of hands on tasks, with development across a number of areas
  • Perform routine service work and preventative maintenance to ensure our saws are first class

You will bring:

  • Trade certificate in Saw Doctoring
  • A can-do attitude
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to communicate effectively

What we offer:

  • A career in a sustainable industry
  • Rotating roster, across a 38-hour week with access to Overtime
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Regional location
  • Continual development and training opportunities

What we offer: • A career in a sustainable industry • Diverse and inclusive workplace • Regional location • Continual development and training opportunities

please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au All applicants will be contacted

Application close:

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Job Title:

Wood Machinist

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description:

Key duties & responsibilities will include:

  • An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
  • Grind and set up planer heads
  • Operate a planer and feedworks to process timber products
  • Assess and maintain cutter performance
  • Fault diagnosis and rectification
  • General maintenance and care of machinery

We are offering an excellent opportunity for an energetic and self-motivated person to join our high performing team of wood machinists.

Key duties & responsibilities will include:

  • An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
  • Grind and set up planer heads
  • Operate a planer and feedworks to process timber products
  • Assess and maintain cutter performance
  • Fault diagnosis and rectification
  • General maintenance and care of machinery

You will bring:

  • Have experience operating high speed planners
  • A can-do attitude
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to communicate effectively

What we offer:

  • A career in a sustainable industry
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Regional location
  • Continual development and training opportunities

Who you will be joining:

Based in Oberon NSW, Highland Pine Products is a joint venture company between industry leaders AKD Softwoods and Pentarch Forestry.  Driven by a workforce of over 200, Highland Pine manufactures sustainable quality timber products used predominantly as house frames and trusses.

For further information, please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au

All applicants will be contacted

Apply Now

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Job Title:

Electrician

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description:

Due to continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for an energetic, self-motivated and diligent electrician who is looking for an exciting challenge.

At 1,113 metres, Oberon is the highest town in the Blue Mountains enjoying four distinct seasons including perfect summers and intermittent snow falls in winter. We are a friendly, caring rural community with a thriving economy. Our main industries are timber, tourism and innovative farming providing a stable employment base for the town. Oberon’s country lifestyle – clean air, sparse traffic, crisp alpine climate, friendly people, sense of community, safe environment and some the most spectacular scenery in NSW makes it a great place to live and work.

Highland Pine Products (HPP) is a joint venture company between Pentarch and AKD Softwoods.  Highland Pine Products employs 225 people and produces dressed timber and treated timber to be used as house frames and trusses.

Electrician

Due to continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for an energetic, self-motivated and diligent electrician who is looking for an exciting challenge.

Reporting to the Electrical Supervisor you will have experience with providing technical expertise and maintenance support for manufacturing / heavy industry plant and equipment.

Experience with Allen Bradley / Rockwell PLC and Control Logix is advantageous.

The position is key to supporting the production team and improving the plant’s preventative maintenance and reliability programs.

This position also offers an attractive hourly rate with opportunity for overtime.

You will have demonstrated experience in:

• An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety

• Preventative electrical maintenance and continuous improvement

• Analysing and rectification of electrical faults

• Investigation, elimination and documentation of VSD faults

• Ensuring compliance to all relevant standards

• Planning, organising and ability to prioritise tasks And the following skills and qualifications:

• Supervisor certificate

• Problem solving skills

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Basic computer literacy

For further information, please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au

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Job Title:

Boiler / Kiln Operator

Date Listed:

Closing Date:

Description

  • Key duties & responsibilities will include:
    • An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
    • Operate a range of machinery as part of the manufacturing process
    • Ensuring equipment is maintained to operational standards
    • Undertake quality control tasks

We are offering an excellent opportunity for an energetic and self-motivated person to join our high performing team of boiler and kiln operators. Working in a 24/7 shift pattern, the team is responsible for the drying procedure in our production process.

Key duties & responsibilities will include:

  • An absolute commitment to Workplace Health and Safety
  • Operate a range of machinery as part of the manufacturing process
  • Ensuring equipment is maintained to operational standards
  • Undertake quality control tasks

You will bring:

  • The ability to work within a supported and talented team
  • A can-do attitude
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to communicate effectively
  • Computer skills

What we offer:

  • A career in a sustainable industry
  • Diverse and inclusive workplace
  • Regional location
  • Continual development and training opportunities

For further information, please contact our recruitment team via recruit@highlandpine.com.au

All applicants will be contacted

Apply Now

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