FIFO Jobs Tasmania

Are there FIFO and mining jobs in Tasmania?

Underground on the West Coast: the ads that take beginners

The Rosebery mine is underground, and its contractor was holding an assessment centre in Devonport on 22 October 2026 for "Entry Level Mine Operators". The ad, read in September, asked for no experience, "just a great attitude, strong work ethic and willingness to learn". It offered two jobs: a nipper, the underground crew's labourer, on 14:14, fourteen days on and fourteen off, and an agi operator, who drives the concrete truck, on 7:7. The line that matters is "Live in Tasmania".

The drilling companies take beginners too. One ad for underground driller assistants was headed "No Experience Required" and flew "from all capital cities", which includes Hobart, and a recruiter listed an entry-level driller's offsider job in Hobart. Those rigs are anywhere in Australia, so the job is Tasmanian only in where you fly from.

Camp and plant jobs: Savage River and the north-west

Cater Care runs the camp at Savage River, going by its two September ads, both DIDO from Burnie. One was a utility all-rounder on 8:6, a "Full-time permanent role for local candidates"; the other was a mine site cleaner on 7:7 with 11.5-hour shifts starting at 3:30 in the morning, and it wanted 12 months' cleaning experience.

The plants hire too. The iron ore miner wanted a process operator at Port Latta, and Chandler Macleod had one at Bell Bay "Working with Rio Tinto". A training company advertised a resource planning traineeship, a paid job with the training built in, near Burnie.

Trades: diesel fitters wanted

The trade ads were diesel. Emeco listed a heavy diesel technician out of Launceston, a dealer wanted one for Savage River, and a recruitment agency wanted a field service technician. Two more ads wanted locals for underground work: Hays wanted a rock tools technician who lives in Zeehan, and a concrete contractor wanted underground agitator drivers "Residentially based in northwest Tasmania".

How do you get a FIFO job in Tasmania, and who hires?

The contractor's crew is one way in, and the mine owner's own jobs are another. The entry-level ad at Rosebery was the contractor's; the owner's ads the same month included a nipper and a processing cadet, which is the owner training its own.

Step by step, in Tasmania

1. Get your manual licence, because the West Coast jobs are driven to, not flown (what the ads ask for).
2. Do your White Card online while you're in the state, and add first aid (the safety tickets). Every course asks for your USI (Unique Student Identifier), a free number you make online.
3. Live near Burnie or Devonport if you can, because Hobart is half a day's drive from the mines (the drive from Hobart).
4. With no experience, go for the underground contractor's entry-level operator jobs at Rosebery, or the drilling ads that take beginners (where beginners start).
5. If you've cleaned or worked in a kitchen, try Cater Care's Savage River camp (camp and plant jobs).
6. Never pay an agency or anyone else to put you forward for a job (the fee rule).
7. Once you're offered the job, the employer checks your references and police record, and books a medical (after the offer).
8. On your first swing, expect a drive before dawn into the rain and twelve-hour shifts, with as many days home as away (a typical swing).

FIFO jobs Hobart: the drive is the problem

FIFO jobs in Hobart are rare, because Hobart is the wrong end of the island for the mines. A 7:7 roster from Hobart costs about half a day of driving each way, so the way round it is a move to the north-west coast, nearer the mines.

What the ads ask for

The ads asked for:

• A manual driver's licence; Cater Care's ad called it "MANDATORY" for drive-in work
• Citizenship or permanent residency, which Cater Care's cleaner ad asked for

After the offer, the employer arranges:

• Reference checks, a national police clearance and a pre-employment medical, which the entry-level ad said were "essential for employment"

Nice to have, and what each one gets you:

• A working at heights certificate: one underground operator ad called it "Beneficial"
• A medium rigid licence: the camp cleaning job preferred one
• A first aid certificate: one drilling ad listed it

The tickets page has the safety tickets and what they cost.

FIFO jobs from Tasmania: flying to the mainland

FIFO jobs from Tasmania to the mainland are the long way, to Western Australia or Queensland, and the ad's point of hire, the airport it flies you from, decides how long. An ad that flies from every capital means the employer flies you from Hobart. A point of hire in Perth or Brisbane means a flight there on your own ticket before the employer's charter; Hobart has some direct flights to both, and the rest connect through Melbourne or Sydney.

How much do FIFO jobs in Tasmania pay?

To see what a rate comes to over a swing or a year after tax, put it into the FIFO pay calculator; the salary page has every job side by side.

None of the Tasmanian ads with a figure in September made the October snapshot, which reads the boards on one day. What the ads did say was the shape: a contractor's service crew job paid a "Competitive hourly rate with fortnightly pay", one mine owner's manager job offered "incentives", and the camp jobs were permanent full-time. The cost that FIFO workers elsewhere pay in flights, a Tasmanian pays in fuel and hours on the Murchison Highway.

What is FIFO in Tasmania like day to day?

Fly in fly out jobs Tasmania: a typical swing

The swing starts in the car. You leave Burnie or Devonport before dawn, or the night before, and the road climbs into the rainforest and the rain. Renison's camp is in Zeehan, about 15 kilometres from the mine, and Rosebery is a town of about 750 people at the 2021 census, with a school, shops and a health centre. The shift is about twelve hours, days or nights, underground or at the mill, and the rosters are mostly even time, 7:7 or 14:14, so the week at home is as long as the week away.

The part that isn't in the ad is the weather. Western Tasmania is the wettest part of Australia outside the tropics, and the work is wet whether it's underground, where the water runs through the rock, or on the surface, where it falls on you. Gear that was fine on a mainland site may not be.

What is it really like doing FIFO in Tasmania?

What the ads don't say is that a small mine in a small town is a small world, and a reputation, good or bad, gets home before you do. If a swing turns bad, Lifeline is 13 11 14, any hour.

Where does FIFO in Tasmania lead?

The ladder is on the ads themselves. The mine owner's processing cadet is a trainee job inside the owner's own crew, and its training advisor and alternate manager ads were on 7:7 and 8:6 for people who had done the years. The senior ad offered "FIFO (from Melbourne) or Relocation", which is the other way the ladder runs: the mainland coming to Tasmania.

For a Tasmanian who wants to try the mainland, a year underground at Rosebery is mining experience to take there, and it's a year with the family within driving distance. The operator and driller's offsider pages have where those two doors go.

Is FIFO in Tasmania right for you?

Two honest questions

1. Drive or fly? The Tasmanian jobs are a car and an even-time roster; the mainland jobs are flights and a longer trip. Decide which year you want before you apply, because the ads are different.
2. Can you work underground in the wet? Several of the entry-level jobs are underground, in one of the wettest parts of Australia. If you've never been below ground, find out what the work is before your first night shift, not during it.