Somewhere the standard actually matters

Pristine Cooling service utes outside the workshop on Boulder Road, Kalgoorlie

Three roles and what the work actually is

Not a duty list. What you would be responsible for. We don't wait for a vacancy to meet good people. Apply and you go on our list, and when the right person turns up we look hard at making room.

Refrigeration Technician

Running your own service and breakdown work across the Goldfields without anyone checking behind you. Based in Kalgoorlie, or FIFO on a 2:1. Carrying your share of the after hours roster, one week in four or five. Writing reports a facility manager can hand straight to their own management. Being the person the apprentice asks.

Cert III or IV. Full ARC licence, held or applied for. WA restricted electrical, or another state's licence to transfer once the job's yours.

Daikin Installer

Daikin splits and ducted, commercial and homes, from the site check to a commissioned handover. Neat pipe runs, square brackets and the paperwork done on the day. Based in Kalgoorlie, or FIFO on a 2:1.

Cert III or IV, not a Cert II split system role. Full ARC licence, held or applied for. WA restricted electrical, or another state's licence to transfer once the job's yours.

Apprentice

Learning the trade properly on commercial gear, working alongside technicians who have been at it a long time. Cert III through TAFE. Getting on the tools rather than holding the torch for four years.

No experience needed. Travel and accommodation support for TAFE and books supplied.

What makes a good technician out here

The form is built around these three, so answer in your own words. That's what we'll be reading for.

You get the diagnosis right

The next part is a day away in Perth, so finding the actual fault first time is worth real money to the customer. We back the technician who takes an extra ten minutes to be certain. If you're still working something out, say so and tell us what you're checking next. That's the answer we want to hear.

You can be left alone on someone's site

Most of this work is solo, inside a business that's trading, often after hours with a key. This is the thing we can't train and can't see on a resume, so tell us about it in your own words.

You write down what you found

The report is half of what we sell. A technician who can explain a fault in writing, so the customer can pass it up without translating it, is worth more to us than one who can only explain it to another tradesperson.

What's expected

  • Early starts and Goldfields heat. Plant rooms and roofs in February are exactly what you think they are.
  • The after hours roster, one week in four or five. Refrigeration is prioritised, so the call that wakes you is usually one that matters.
  • Regional trips. Kambalda and Coolgardie are day trips. Leonora is about 235km. Esperance is a run, sometimes overnight.
  • Paperwork after every job, every time. Not optional, not negotiable and not something we'll chase you for twice.
  • Finish standard. If it wouldn't pass in a building your own kids walk into, it doesn't pass here.
  • Conduct on a customer's site. While you're standing there you're the business and this is a town where everyone knows everyone.

What we offer and what we'll tell you straight away

  • $60 to $75 an hour PAYG plus super for both trade roles, based in Kalgoorlie or FIFO.
  • A maintained company vehicle for both trade roles.
  • Uniforms supplied.
  • A quarterly incentive program. Do the job well and there's money in it, not just a thank you at Christmas.
  • Regular pay reviews, so your rate moves when your work does.
  • Get named in a customer review and there's something in it for you. The people who look after customers properly are the ones customers name.
  • A team small enough that you aren't a number and neither is your work.
  • Work on a real mix of equipment: commercial refrigeration, air conditioning, mechanical services and ventilation. Not the same job five days a week.
  • Daikin Specialist Dealer, so you're trained on current gear.

If you're applying for the apprenticeship

  • Travel allowance to get you to TAFE.
  • Support with accommodation while you're there.
  • Books supplied. You aren't paying for your own textbooks.

Block release out of Kalgoorlie is the part that quietly stops people finishing a trade in a regional town. We'd rather take that off your plate than watch you drop out in year two.

The rate's on this page, not hidden

$60 to $75 an hour PAYG plus super. The first call settles where in the range you sit, before you take a morning off or sit through an interview. If it doesn't work for you, you've lost ten minutes on a form instead of half a day.

Ring (08) 9082 7134 if you'd rather ask first. We won't be cagey about it.

Don't take our word for it

“Working at Pristine Cooling has been a tremendous experience! Being able to learn, work and improve as a technician on every type of HVAC equipment small or large with a supportive team that encourages learning and getting the job done correctly.”
Mark Technician, started with us as an apprentice

Ready when you are

Most of this is quick. One question asks you to think and that's the one we read first, so give it a proper go. Write it the way you would explain it to another tradesperson standing next to you. We're not marking spelling and there's no right answer, we just want to see how you work through a problem.

If you would rather talk it through before you start, ring the office. You don't have to give us your name and asking questions never counts against you.

1. Which role
2. The question that matters
What was the symptom, what did you check, what did you rule out and why, then how it ended. If you got it wrong first, say so. That isn't the part we mark you down on. A few honest paragraphs beats one polished one.
2. The question that matters
What went wrong, what you did about it, who you had to tell and what the customer ended up seeing. Things go sideways on installs. How you handled it is what we're reading for.
2. The question that matters
It doesn't have to be refrigeration and it doesn't have to have worked. A bike, a mower, a computer, a bit of farm gear. We want to see how you think about a problem.
Sport, a job, a project, anything. An apprenticeship is four years and the fourth year is the one that counts.
3. Your tickets
It has to be the full licence. A restricted split system licence isn't enough.
Licensed in another state? That's fine. The transfer to WA gets done once the job's yours.

Handy but not essential:

3. Your tickets
It has to be the full licence. A restricted split system licence isn't enough.
Licensed in another state? That's fine. The transfer to WA gets done once the job's yours.

Handy but not essential:

3. Where you're up to
4. The straight answers
FIFO is fourteen days on and seven off, ten hour days. We book and pay the flights from Perth or Melbourne, you stay in our house and there's a daily meal allowance.
Answering no doesn't rule you out of every role. We'd rather know now than find out in month two.
Kambalda and Coolgardie are day trips. Leonora is about 235km. Esperance is a run.
5. When you could start
6. Your resume
PDF, Word, or a photo of it taken on your phone. All fine. Up to about 8MB.

If the attachment won't go through, don't start again. Send the application without it and email the resume to admin@pristinecooling.com.au. We'll match it up. We'd rather have your answers than a perfect attachment.

7. How we reach you
If you're relocating, tell us where from and roughly when.

What we do with this

Pristine Cooling collects what you put in this form so we can assess you for the role you picked and for nothing else. Only Rachel and Brendon read your application, and it reaches Rachel before anyone else in the office. It's not sold, not shared and not sent offshore.

We don't ask for referees here. If we get to that stage we'll ask you for them on the phone, so nobody gets a call about you before you know it's coming.

If you're not successful we keep your application for twelve months in case something else comes up, then delete it. You can ask us at any time what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email admin@pristinecooling.com.au or ring (08) 9082 7134 and it's done.

You'll hear back within three business days, whatever the answer.

One application, read by the people you would actually work for.

Not sure it's for you?

Ring the office and ask whatever you want before you fill anything in. Nobody will give you a sales pitch.

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