The roar of the Red Lion is fading in Australia.

Holden is on track to roll-out 30,000 vehicles from its Elizabeth factory in Adelaide's north this year, but the near 1,000-strong workforce that has been fuelling production has the end in sight.

Holden will cease to make cars in Australia on October 20 when it shuts down its Elizabeth manufacturing facility.

For employee of 18 years Justin Ringewaldt it means the end of a journey spanning half his lifetime.

"Two decades is a long place anywhere," he said.

"You think today, people wouldn't work two decades in any workplace, so it's been a great journey and now I just want to make the most of it."

Transition centre leading workers to new pastures

The Holden Transition Centre (HTC) has been helping shine a light on potential employment prospects since 2014.

The jobs fair at the Holden Transition Centre included 60 SA businesses. ( ABC News )

This week it put on a jobs fair with 60 other SA businesses, ranging from mining to pharmaceuticals, to bring workers and employers together into the one room.

"The more companies we speak to and the more people and the more positive it is, the better it makes you feel," Mr Ringewaldt said.

"Some of the guys have left here over the years and we get to speak to them and see what it was like on the next stage of the journey."

One of those former employees is Richard Begg, a seven-year Holden worker who took an early release in April to pursue a career with manufacturing company Seeley International.

"Really, the end was coming for Holden," Mr Begg said.

"I did resumes before getting to the transition centre, and that wasn't getting me where I needed to go so I then worked through the transition centre."

The HTC offered him services, such as the chance to practise interview techniques.

"Then [I] went into Seeley International and was a lot more comfortable to have that preparedness to get into a new role."

The Elizabeth factory closes on October 20. ( Supplied: GM Media )

Upbeat about life after Holden

Mr Begg participated in the fair as an ambassador for Seeley International and highlighted opportunities alongside 59 other businesses.

Richard Begg was there to talk with his former workmates at Holden. ( ABC News )

"Obviously I know a lot of Holden people. [I'm] looking at what jobs we have coming up in the future and trying to tailor them to the people I know here ... the skills that I know are here," he said.

"[From] what I've seen here today, spirits are really high.

"I can vouch for the Holden people. They've got a lot of skills.

"Once they get out there, they realise just what skills that they've got."

There were nearly 1,000 people working at Holden in January this year when it announced is shutdown date and roughly 800 have since passed through HTC, with 82 per cent finding work.

Along with the success stories, however, comes the fear of being one of the unlucky ones to miss out.

Mr Ringewaldt, who is looking for an apprenticeship in electrical engineering, was among hundreds still scrambling to find work after October 20.

"There are opportunities out there. We just have to make the most of the situation and sell ourselves," he said.

"It's been a great journey [and I'm] sad to see Holden go.

"There's still light at the end of the tunnel and we've just got to find that light and carry on with it."