Maintenance Superintendent

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Superintendent to join our Ladysmith Sawmill Division based on Vancouver Island, BC.

**What You’ll Do**: With an overarching objective of ensuring a safe work environment, you will lead our high performing maintenance team at this division executing safety initiatives, analyzing financial performance, improving operational efficiencies, as well as providing leadership and direction to both staff and unionized employees in the maintenance team, contractors and other service providers.

**Work Environment**: This position is to be performed in person at the Ladysmith Sawmill on Vancouver Island, BC.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Safety and Environmental Performance Overview**
- Provide leadership in safety and environmental stewardship by demonstrating and ensuring the adherence to company safety and sustainability processes and procedures;
- Support and promote company Safety Management Systems by working closely with your safety advisor on key safety initiatives;
- Perform accurate and timely incident investigations to discover route cause and corrective actions;
- Responsible for completing monthly environmental & weekly safety inspections per Safety Management System and Company Environmental Management System.

**Financial Performance**
- Manage costs to monthly spend targets.
- Support the interpretation of financial data and analytics to identify cost saving opportunities;
- Support the analysis of downtime reports and other relevant metrics; and,
- Work with the Maintenance Planners to develop action plans to increase efficiencies and equipment reliability.

**Leadership**
- Direct and manage unionized maintenance personnel and contractors to ensure that all equipment operates at its highest capability to meet required production schedules, quality and cost priorities;
- Hire, train, coach, mentor and manage performance of both staff and hourly maintenance employees;
- Work closely with your safety advisor on key safety initiatives and maintain crew training as per requirements;
- Accurately and timely incident investigations performed on time with overarching end goal of discovering route cause and corrective actions;
- Responsible for completing and regularly reviewing Personal Goals and Measures (PGM) documents with staff to ensure goals and targets are achieved.

**Operations**
- Executes maintenance schedules and processes that are cost effective, increases the availability, and maximizes the operational life of equipment;
- Supervise all maintenance activities and support capital project cost management and delivery schedules;
- Day to day balancing of planned maintenance as well as critical repairs to enable equipment productivity and minimize downtime;
- Optimizes parts availability in the warehouse to minimize equipment downtime while balancing cost effective maintenance inventory management;
- Ensure equipment repairs meet manufacturer's specifications, WorkSafeBC regulations and/or Company standards;
- Stay abreast of industry innovations and trends in safety and environmental performance and new technology or equipment to improve company margins; and
- Daily entry to Computerized Maintenance Systems (CMMS) including creating “break down” Maintenance work orders, data entry and closing work orders.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Education and Experience**
- 5 - 8 years of experience working in an industrial maintenance department, preferably in logging or similar heavy industry;
- Journeyman Millwright, Electrician or post-secondary degree in Engineering or equivalent experience is required;
- Experience supervising and managing staff with experience managing a unionized crew as an asset.

**Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies**
- Commitment to Western’s core values of personal safety, sustainable management, and environmental stewardship;
- Comprehensive knowledge of logging and/or heavy equipment maintenance and repair;
- Strong project management skills;
- Understanding of financial reports and forecasting;
- High level of integrity and professionalism;
- Ability to motivate and engage hourly employees to perform at a higher standard;
- Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving and logical thinking skills;
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills;
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset;
- Competent in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel; and,
- Proficiency in the use of Project Management as well as CMMS is desired.

**LIVE WORK PLAY**

Vancouver Island is home to some of Canada’s best and most beautiful places to live, not to mention the climate is one of the warmest. The central island region experiences warm summers coupled with some of the mildest winters in all of Canada.

The outdoors is your playground, surrounded by the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges, rainforests and an ocean filled with wildlife. Imagine a place where you could literally go skiing and gol