Maintenance Worker

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
Lafarge is recruiting a
**Maintenance Worker** to maintain, improve, and optimize the mechanical operations
** **for our Abbotsford Aggregates plant
**. **This is a permanent, full-time, hourly opportunity.

**Responsibilities**:
The primary responsibilities of this position are: keeping all plant production and service equipment in reliable operating condition and maintenance of equipment on the Plant. Maintenance Workers perform planned and breakdown maintenance, including but not limited to:

- Service, repair, and install motors, gears/drives
- Service and repair gearboxes,, pumps, and vibrating screens.
- Service and repairs to fixed belt conveyors and portable hydraulic conveyors
- Maintain paper and electronic records
- Maintain shop equipment and Housekeeping.
- Complete reports to record problems and work performed
- Estimate parts and labor costs
- Maintain safety, health, and environmental policies and procedures
- Keep accurate records of work completed, parts used, and costs
- All other duties as assigned

**Safety**:

- Demonstrates a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to safety policies in all work environments and areas
- Ensures that all work is performed in a safe and efficient fashion. The safety of the individual, coworkers, customers, and the general public is the primary requirement of any and all tasks undertaken.

**Operations**:

- Proactively addresses breakdown events with a sense of urgency without compromising safety or product quality requirements.
- Actively inspects and monitors all mechanical equipment to ensure the majority of tasks performed are preventative rather than breakdown maintenance.
- Constantly in pursuit of building and maintaining a “best possible” group of facilities.

**Teamwork and Communication**:

- Works both individually and as part of a team to accomplish goals.
- Regularly communicates with operational and delivery coworkers and managers to identify and remove constraints of a mechanical or process nature.
- Keeps managers informed and takes responsibility for actions and decisions, both good and bad.

Qualifications:
**Qualifications**:

- Strong safety culture
- Wash plant operation and maintenance experience, or similar setting
- Mechanically inclined
- Comfortable working at heights
- Comfortable working in the elements
- Ability to operate a loader, skidsteer and telehandler is preferred but not mandatory.
- Ability to both lead and take direction from others

**Experience and Skill Set**:

- Minimum two (2) years of heavy manufacturing/mining experience.
- A commitment to working safely
- Troubleshooting skills.
- Self-starter: Capacity to work as part of a team and independently
- Ability to work in various work environments (hot and cold).
- Reliable and dependable
- Experience operating heavy equipment, specifically a loader would be considered an asset
- Proficiency in welding, fabrication & rigging is an asset
- Valid driver's license
- Must be able to work overtime, weekends, and evenings as required by management
- Must be able to walk and stand for periods at a time

**Shift**: Swing. 5:30-2 / 2-10:30pm every other week

**Compensation**: $37 per hour

**_
As part of our dedicated focus on the health and safety of all employees, a pre-employment medical, including drug and alcohol testing and a criminal record check, may be required._**

LafargeHolcim:
As we are reinventing the way the world builds, we need world-class talent to join our Lafarge Canada team: people who are
**passionate**, driven by
**curiosity** and keen to
**grow**,
**learn, develop** and
**thrive** in our high-performance culture.

Whatever you do, you will make a difference here. Because we know that your passion and curiosity are the natural resources the world needs.