Trade Assistant Jobs (CW3)

  • Trade assistant, CW3
  • Sydney, NSW and South East Queensland
  • Tickets or trade experience, and your own basic tools
  • AU work rights required
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We are hiring trade assistants for carpenters, boilermakers, fitters, concrete cutters, electricians and plumbers on construction and industrial sites across Sydney, New South Wales and South East Queensland.

This is the step between labouring and a trade. You are on the tools with a tradesperson every day, you hold a couple of tickets, and you are trusted to set up, measure, cut and finish under direction. If you are part way through an apprenticeship or a trade certificate, say so.

Perfect Hire is the labour hire arm of Perfect Group. We put inducted, ticketed people onto construction sites for builders, civil contractors and the group's own demolition, concrete cutting and remediation crews. Most of the work is on Tier 1 sites around Sydney and New South Wales, with a Queensland base at Slacks Creek, and a lot of it comes in at short notice.

Fill in the form below and someone will ring you back within one business day. It takes about two minutes. Attach a CV if you have one handy, or reply to the confirmation email with it.

Perfect Contracting worker wearing hard hat, eye protection and fall-arrest harness beside an elevated work platform.
Perfect crew member on a boom lift platform during elevated industrial works.
Complex demolition works in a constrained Sydney Metro station environment
Perfect crew group wearing orange high-visibility workwear and hard hats at a site compound.

    The basics

    Two minutes. Everything marked with a star is required, and the more you fill in the faster we can place you.

    We are hiring in NSW, QLD and WA, including FIFO mining work out of Perth. Pick "Anywhere in Australia" if you will travel.
    You must already have the right to work in Australia. We are not able to sponsor visas.
    Pick the closest one. The next questions change to match.

    The work you want

    These are compulsory. They are how we match you to a job.

    John Holland, CPB, Acciona, Laing O'Rourke, that level of site.
    A lot of our work is same-day and short notice. Be honest, it helps us both.
    PDF or Word, up to 5MB. If you do not have one on your phone, submit anyway and reply to our email with it.

    Your experience

    The more you tick, the better we can match you to a job.

    White CardWorking at HeightsConfined SpaceGas Test AtmospheresAsbestos Removal Class B (non-friable)Asbestos Removal Class A (friable)Asbestos SupervisorAsbestos AssessorDemolition licenceSilica awarenessEWP under 11m (Yellow Card)EWP over 11m (WP licence)Forklift (LF)Dogging (DG)Basic Rigging (RB)Intermediate Rigging (RI)Traffic Control (TCT)Implement Traffic Management Plan (TMI)ExcavatorSkid steer or Posi-trackTelehandlerRollerTruck mounted crane (HIAB)Slewing craneFirst AidRail Industry Worker (RIW) card Tick everything current. Leave blank if you are starting out.
    Sydney MetroSydney TrainsSydney WaterWestern Harbour TunnelMalabar System AllianceTransport for NSWNone yet Inducted workers get on site faster, so this matters to us.
    JackhammerQuick cut or demo sawConcrete sawPressure washerScaffold labouringSteel fixingConcretingTraffic controlCleaning and housekeepingNo tools yet, willing to learn
    ExcavatorSkid steer or Posi-trackForkliftTelehandlerScissor liftBoom liftHoistFrannaSlewing craneBobcatRollerDump truck
    Road sawingWall sawingWire sawingCore drillingHand sawingRing sawingGrinding and polishingConcrete patchingConcrete repairsConcrete cancer repairPost-tension cable workGPR scanningHydrodemolitionKerb and channel cutting
    General constructionConcrete remediationStructural steel repairsAbrasive or shot blastingIndustrial coatings and paintingWaterproofingCathodic protectionCarbon fibre strengtheningHeritage restorationAbseiling or rope accessBridge worksFacade works
    Soft strip outStructural demolitionHigh reach demolitionAsbestos removalHazmat removalPlant decommissioningTunnel and excavationCivil worksRecycling and sortingSite remediationDewatering
    DemolitionCivilRemediationConcreteStrip outRailWaterMiningCommercial buildingIndustrial

    References and availability

    A work reference or a character reference. Three is ideal, one is enough to get started.
    Fly-in fly-out, drive-in drive-out, or away for a stint. The away jobs usually pay better.
    Pick the one that suits you best right now.
    Regional means outside the capital cities: country towns, mines, regional infrastructure projects.
    New South WalesQueenslandWestern AustraliaVictoriaSouth AustraliaNorthern TerritoryTasmaniaAnywhere in Australia Tick every state you would go to.
    Optional. Helps us match you when a regional job comes up.
    Tunnels and metroRail corridorsRoads and bridgesMines and quarriesPorts and wharvesPower stations and refineriesWater treatment plantsCommercial buildings and CBDIndustrial plants and warehousesDefence sitesDemolition sitesAny site Optional. Tick as many as you like.
    Compulsory. A few lines is fine, but give us real employers and real jobs. It is what we search when a role comes up.

    What the work is

    • Setting up, packing down and looking after the tools and plant for a trade crew.
    • Cutting, drilling, fixing, welding preparation, formwork stripping and second fix work under a tradesperson.
    • Working as an offsider on concrete cutting, core drilling and grinding crews for our concrete care division.
    • Reading a drawing or a set out and doing what it says, then checking it.
    • Keeping the work area safe: exclusion zones, housekeeping, dust and water control.

    Tickets and experience we look for

    Tell us what you actually hold. Missing one or two is not a problem.

    • White Card, plus at least one of Working at Heights, Confined Space, EWP, forklift or a skid steer ticket.
    • Two years or more on site, or a trade certificate in progress, or a completed trade overseas that is not yet recognised here.
    • Your own basic hand tools and a way to get them to site.
    • Rail, metro, water or tunnel inductions put you near the front of the queue.
    • You can take direction, ask when you are not sure, and finish what you start.

    What it pays

    Pay depends on your tickets, your experience and the site. Tell us what you are on now and we will be straight with you. Long hours, weekend shifts and travel work all pay more, and people who turn up every day get first pick of the next job. This role sits at CW3 on the construction worker classifications. There is a plain English guide to what each level means on our construction worker classifications page.

    Other names for this job

    Companies label this role differently and so do candidates. If your last job was called trade assistant, trades assistant, TA, tradesman's assistant, offsider, carpenter's labourer, boilermaker's assistant, fitter's assistant, concrete cutting offsider, skilled labourer with tools, and the work matches what is above, this is the same job. We hire on what you can do on site, not on the title.

    What we are like to work for

    Labour hire has a bad name in places and we know it. What we do differently is simple. You are inducted properly before you start, you are not sent to a site you are not ticketed for, and there is a real person at Marrickville who answers the phone when something is wrong. Timesheets go through the Fieldworker app, so there are no arguments about hours. Do the job well and we keep you working, and the best people get offered permanent roles with the group's own crews.

    Work rights

    You need the right to work in Australia. We do not sponsor visas and we do not charge anyone a fee to apply or to be placed, ever. If someone asks you for money to get a job with us, it is not us. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

    What happens after you apply

    • You get an email straight away confirming we have your application.
    • Someone rings you within one business day, on the mobile number you give us.
    • If you did not attach a CV, reply to that confirmation email with it. It is the fastest way to get in front of us.
    • We keep your details on file. Even if there is nothing today, we come back to people when the right job lands, which is often only days later with hire work.

    Where the work is

    Head office is at 4/8 Lilian Fowler Place, Marrickville, and the Queensland base is at 23 Aranda Street, Slacks Creek. Hire work goes wherever our clients are building: greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Wollongong and the Hunter, plus South East Queensland. Some jobs need people who will travel or work away. Say so on the form if that suits you.

    Other roles

    We are also hiring: General Labourer jobs (CW2), High Risk Work Operator jobs (CW4), Tradesperson jobs (CW5). Permanent roles with the group's own crews, from demolition labourers to supervisors and estimators, are listed on the Work With Us page.