Your Region: Sunshine Coast
Known as one of the most popular holiday destinations, Sunshine Coast boasts not only beautiful beaches, but a diverse manufacturing and industrial services scene.
Sunshine Coast has some exciting development and projects in manufacturing. The fast-growing regional city provides significant opportunities for schools to engage with industry experts.
Here we aim to serve up a snapshot of events and opportunities available to teachers, support staff, parents and students interested to explore the world of STEAM and manufacturing.
What’s on
Manufacturing and engineering career opportunities on the Sunshine Coast
Help your students discover the exciting and highly diverse prospect of a career in manufacturing and engineering, connect to our job board to find out more.
Local Industry Partners
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Corbet's Group operates in many industries including heavy haulage and bulk commodity transport, land clearing and grinding, water and fluid processing, storage and transfer, heavy plant and equipment wet and dry hire and wholesale landscape supplies.
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Dix Manufacturing Group is a highly reputable supplier of quality, fabricated steel components and assemblies.
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Downer designs, builds and sustains assets, infrastructure and facilities and is a provider of integrated services in Australia and New Zealand.
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DTM Timber is a hardwood building company and it specialises in large logging, sawmilling, timber treatment and structural quality timber distribution and sales business.
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Epicurean Products develops fresh dressings and sauces for some of Australia’s national food brands. The company's system encompasses R&D, custom development, sourcing, batch manufacturing, portion control and logistics.
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Ferra Group specializes in the design, manufacture, and maintenance of complex electromechanical subsystems and structures primarily for defense, commercial and military aviation, and other industries
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G&O Kert provides a range of services including comprehensive precision CNC machining, fabrication, assembly and reverse engineering of obsolete parts.
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G.James Glass & Aluminium is an Australian industrial company, producing glass and aluminium products.
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GCI Group manufactures precision components from singular parts to large complex assemblies for businesses across Australia.
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Hetech is an Australian established company specialising in Electronics Design and Manufacturing.
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3d-Printing Services is a subsidiary of iOrthotics, which provides access to HP MultiJet Fusion 3D print capability.
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Kingfisher specialises in all aspects of boat building and shipwright work.
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Konica Minolta offers print solutions including office printers, scanners, photocopiers, commercial printers, professional managed services and solutions.
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Micromelon aims to further the impact that STEM education can have on students, teachers and adults alike. With experience in not only programming, but also manufacturing, engineering, product development and innovation Micromelon can bring these parties together to provide better outcomes through STEM education, workshops and teacher training.
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Kallipr (formerly known as mIoT) designs and manufactures a range of world-leading, innovative IoT solutions that allow users to better measure and monitor their own data in an easy to use end-to-end package, ultimately reducing business downtime and operating costs, while improving sustainability.
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Packer Leather provides high performance kangaroo leather, creating custom made solutions for global brands' specific leather needs.
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People in Plastic provides distribution services of over 800 products including bottles, baskets, bins tubs, etc., to thousands of customers in a wide range of industries.
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Plastics Australia is a plastic stationery manufacturer and it provides off-the-shelf or custom-made products to a range of customers.
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Platinum Electricians offers reliable and cost-effective electrical services to thousands of businesses across Australia.
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Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions, including trucks and buses for heavy transport applications combined with an extensive product-related service offering.
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Watkins Stell specialises in 3D scanning, metalwork and structural steel fabrication.
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Visy offer unique, fully integrated, forward thinking closed loop packaging and recycling solutions that align with customer and industry needs.
Reach out to the listed businesses who have been actively involved with schools in your area or expressed and interest to do so.
Government & Non-for-profit organisations
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Their aim is to accelerate AI adoption and capability development, improve productivity, and support job generation and economic growth.
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QMI’s focus is on delivering programs and services that are designed to develop and grow Queensland’s entire manufacturing industry.
Student Work Experience Opportunities
We encourage schools to connect students with our industry partners with the aim of setting up work experience placements.
Are you familiar with our student-led Structured Learning Workplace Program?