Somewhere the standard actually matters

The Pristine Cooling workshop on Boulder Road, Kalgoorlie

Three openings and what the work actually is

Not a duty list. What you would be responsible for.

Senior Refrigeration Technician

Running your own service and breakdown work across the Goldfields without anyone checking behind you. Carrying your share of the after hours roster. Writing reports a facility manager can hand straight to their own management. Being the person the apprentice asks.

Trade qualified, refrigerant handling licence, WA restricted electrical licence.

Lead Installation Technician

Taking installation jobs from drawings to commissioned handover on a builder's programme. Running one or two people on site. Flagging clashes early instead of explaining them late. Handover packs that don't come back.

Trade qualified, licensed and you've led people on site before.

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. 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

  • Above award wages.
  • A maintained company vehicle for both technician 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.

We'll tell you the number on the first phone call

Before you take a morning off, before you sit through an interview, before anyone talks about culture. If it doesn't work for you, you've lost ten minutes on a form instead of half a day.

Ring (08) 9082 7134 and ask now if you would rather know 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 changed, what did you do about it, who did you have to tell and what did the customer end up seeing. Programme slips and site clashes are normal. 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
Your ARCtick licence.
Or the interstate equivalent you hold.

Handy but not essential:

3. Your tickets
Your ARCtick licence.
Or the interstate equivalent you hold.
3. Where you're up to
4. The straight answers
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. It goes to the office inbox and only the owners read it. 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.

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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