Dock Hand

A unique opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated & passionate individual to join Arts Centre Melbourne as a casual Dock Hand!

• Casual role
• Great location convenient to public transport
• Hourly rate of $25.41 + 25% casual loading

The Dock Hand will play a key role in supporting the Hospitality team by maintaining and improving stock management processes and overall operational efficiency. You’ll be responsible for ensuring adherence to quality and cost control standards and also have the ability to deliver friendly and reliable customer service to a variety of internal and external stakeholders. As a casual, you may be required to work weekdays, nights and weekends as well as some public holidays.

• Experience working within a stock management environment
• Ability to prioritise workload, diagnose problems and resolve issues within set guidelines, unsupervised
• Experience in the delivery of customer service excellence
• Sound communication skills
• Promote a safe, healthy and secure work environment, identify and report workplace hazards, risks and incidents
• Ensure wastage is minimised and recorded
• Desirable: Full Victorian driver’s licence

The Customer Innovation team is responsible for the service and delivery of all food and beverage related activity in Arts Centre Melbourne including the Theatres building, Hamer Hall and Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

The Hospitality Unit is focused on delivering exceptional customer service and innovative cuisine across all venues and function spaces in keeping with Arts Centre Melbourne standards.

Arts Centre Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we gather, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung. We also acknowledge the neighbouring Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, and pay our respects to elders, past and present.

Beneath our iconic Spire, in Hamer Hall and at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, we showcase the best of Australian and international performing arts.  

Together with our own program of performances, events and activities we offer a diversity of audiences a distinctly multidimensional approach to participation, education and entertainment.

We are now focused on Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to transforming the Melbourne Arts Precinct into a thriving, connected creative and civic space over the coming years.

For a glimpse into working at Arts Centre Melbourne click here.

Arts Centre Melbourne welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from diverse cultural backgrounds, Disabled and Deaf people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and people of all ages.

We seek to provide workplace adjustments at all relevant stages of the recruitment process such as alternative formats or other access supports. You can specify in the application form if you require any adjustments or please ask us at any stage. If you need to contact us about making adjustments during the recruitment process, please send an email to peopleassist@artscentremelbourne.com.au.

At Arts Centre Melbourne (ACM), we employ the HumanForce system. HumanForce uses Facial Recognition technology to record clock on and off times. This technology operates in strict privacy mode, meaning that images are not stored. The use of this technology is necessary for ACM to perform its roster, time and attendance (RTA) functions accurately and efficiently. Therefore, all new staff in the Production, Visitor Experience, Ticketing and Hospitality/Kitchen Teams will be required to use it unless otherwise agreed.

If you sign on to a contract with ACM, it will be understood that you consent to the use of this software. If you do not consent or require an adjustment, please advise in your cover letter.

Please submit your resume together with a cover letter by 11:55pm Wednesday 1 July 2026. Early applications are encouraged as suitable candidates may be invited to attend an interview prior to the closing date.

Employment at Arts Centre Melbourne is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a National Police Check.

Applications are open to those with full working rights in Australia. Arts Centre Melbourne is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 

Advertised: 17 Jun 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close: 01 Jul 2026 AUS Eastern Standard Time

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