Shop Lead

**Job description**

**Shop Lead**

The Shop Lead will be responsible for completing the day-to-day operational tasks of our facility. This individual will ensure that all warehouse operations are running smoothly and efficiently.

You will be responsible frame-building/production work, cleanliness, loading and unloading dynamic loads on trucks and containers, along with leading a safety initiative in the workplace. The Shop Lead ensures safety is a number one priority through effective daily communication, execution, and leadership of company safety procedures.

You will report to our Operations Manager and collaborate with our Installation Foreman daily.

**Responsibilities**

**50%** **Frame Build & Assembly**:

- Build frames both independently and in a team setting according to work orders and assembly guides
- Plan and schedule frame builds to ensure of orders are ready on time in collaboration with our Foreman
- Responsible for maintaining high level of assembly quality control
- Operate and maintain our Iron Worker equipment. Produce steel safety products according to work orders.

**30% Shop Coordination**:

- Perform inventory control and submit stock material reports
- Keep warehouse organized and clean according to company’s rules and expectations
- Check to ensure toolbox contents are stocked and match the tool inventory checklist for install crews
- Make sure material handling equipment is charged and ready to be sent to the job sites for install crews
- Make sure install vehicles are parked in designated sports in the warehouse for overnight storage
- Manage cardboard, garbage, and scrap metal runs when required
- Manage yard organization and effectively store materials
- Assist and/or complete special shop/facility improvement initiatives.

**20% Shipping & Receiving**:

- Unload and receive dynamic load containers and flat decks including lengths of steel and other raw materials
- Organize stock of raw materials by ensuring materials are allocated to designated areas
- Track and report damaged goods
- Prepare and pack dynamic load orders for shipping according to the Work Orders ranging from 4’ bundles to 24’ bundles of steel
- Loading orders consisting of steel bundles on to flat deck and related vehicles.
- Assisting customers with loading pickup orders on to their transport vehicles
- Ensure orders are packed, strapped, and prepared safety
- Keep track of consumables inventory: shirts, earplugs, gloves etc.

**Occupational Safety**:

- Daily core focus to support and promote Occupational Health & Safety
- Understand risks in the workplace and implement preventative measures
- Stop any unsafe acts or processes that seem dangerous or unhealthy
- Act as the primary point of contact for safety-oriented initiatives. Collaborate with operational management to ensure hazards and risks are identified, reported, and managed.
- Participate in JOHS meetings on our shop floor
- Document site safety inspections
- Assist in the development and enhance Job Hazard Analysis and Safe Work Practice documents based on existing materials

**Qualifications**:

- Able to lift up to 50 pounds without assistance
- Experienced operating a forklift
- Able to work efficiently and on independently (must be able to multitask)
- Have 1-2 years of experience in an industrial shop environment.
- Must have good time management skills
- Must have strong communication skills to maintain positive working relationships.
- Must be able to read English in order to effectively communicate with other team members, management, customers, and other employees.
- To have a strong work ethic, and be capable of sustaining physical activity for the duration of an 8-10-hour shift
- To be able to learn new tasks and follow instructions
- To be able to perform repetitive work with accuracy and attention to detail

Valid driver’s license independently
- To work amongst a diverse culture and promote a positive environment

**SUCCESS CRITERIA**
- Be a proactive leader, a good communicator, and a convener.
- Promote a work environment that focuses on good working relationships and ongoing communication with leadership and colleagues
- Possess excellent organization and time-management skills
- Safe work history with a commitment to adhere to safe work policies and procedures
- To be reliable and punctual
- Positive, collaborative mindset
- Ability to act quickly and decisively in emergencies
- A safety and compliance mindset

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $25.00-$32.00 per hour

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $25.00-$32.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Langley, BC V4W 3X4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Secondary School (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Shipping & receiving: 1 year (preferred)
- For