Labour Hire in Mackay & the Bowen Basin
Qualified fitters, boilermakers, riggers and plant operators supplied to mines and sugar mills, ready to work when your own crew can’t cover it.
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$20M public liability
24/7 breakdown response
Qualified labour
Industry expertise
About
Mining & Trades Labour Hire in Mackay
Tappy’s Fitting & Maintenance supplies qualified trades labour to mines and sugar mills across Mackay and the Bowen Basin. When you’re short on people, we put experienced fitters, boilermakers, riggers and operators on your site, ready to work.
Labour supply is what we do best. Whether you need cover for a breakdown, a crew for a shutdown, or an extra set of hands for a maintenance day, we’ll get the right people to you. It’s industrial labour hire built around the way mines and mills actually run, and every trade we send is qualified, ticketed for the job, and ready to go the moment they step on site.
Our Services
The Trades We Supply
We supply a range of trades to site, matched to the work you need done. Some of the trades we can provide:
Fitters
Mechanical fitters for maintenance, repairs and installation on fixed plant, experienced across mining and sugar mill sites.
Boilermakers
Boilermaker labour hire for fabrication, welding and structural repair work, supplied by the day, the shutdown, or the length of your job.
Riggers
If you need ticketed riggers for lifts, dogging and rigging work, we supply rigger hire to support your maintenance and shutdown crews on site.
Trades Assistants
Trades assistants to keep your skilled crew moving, handling the support work so your qualified hands stay on the tools.
Plant Operators
Experienced plant operators, matched to the machines and the work you need covered.
Tappy's Fitting & Maintenance
When You Need Labour
We supply labour hire to mines and sugar mills when you need it most. Sometimes that’s a planned maintenance day you’re short-handed for, and sometimes it’s a breakdown that needs extra people on site the same day.
- Short-staffed for a maintenance day or planned works
- Breakdown cover when you need extra hands fast
- Shutdown crews for a planned event or turnaround
- Specialist trades you don't keep on full time
- Covering leave, roster gaps, or a spike in workload
We also provide shutdown maintenance and coordination services, along with urgent mechanical work such as fixed plant maintenance, so we can cover the whole job or just the people, whichever you need.
Why Choose Us
Why Choose Tappy's for Labour Hire
Qualified and Vetted
The people we send are trade-qualified and ticketed for the work, so they're ready to go as soon as they step on site.
Run by a Tradesman
The business is run by a dual-trade fitter and boilermaker, so we know the work on site and send people who suit it.
Fully Insured
$20M public liability and all equipment fully insured, so our people meet the requirements to get on your site.
Reliable and Local
A Mackay-based team with a reputation built on word of mouth across the mines and mills of the Bowen Basin.
Our Process
How It Works
1. Tell Us What You Need
Give us a call or send an enquiry with the site, the trades you need, and when you need them there.
2. We Supply the Right People
We match qualified fitters, boilermakers, riggers or operators to the job and confirm availability with you.
3. They Turn Up Ready to Work
Our people arrive ticketed, inducted and ready from the get go, so the job gets moving without the hold-ups.
Tappy's Fitting & Maintenance
Where We Supply Labour
Based in Mackay, we supply labour across Central Queensland and the full Bowen Basin, north to Cairns, south to the Queensland and New South Wales border, and west to the coalfields. When a job’s further out, we’ll fly people to it, with experience on sites as far afield as New Zealand and Tasmania.
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