Materials Technician

Job Type:
Regular

Plains Midstream Canada (PMC) is an industry-leading transportation and midstream provider specializing in transportation, storage, processing and marketing solutions for crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs). PMC also operates strategically-located facilities for crude oil and NGL storage, separates NGL from natural gas and fractionates NGL into pure liquid petroleum gas (LPG) products, including propane and butane.

Fueled by our strong leadership team and a dedicated employee base, combined with our expertise in marketing, logistics and our asset base, PMC is well-positioned to provide our customers with flexible, value-added services now and in the future.

Our Operations department is a talented group of professionals who are committed to conducting our business in a manner that ensures the safety and security of the public, our employees and contractors, our assets and the environment. We want consistent and predictable operations done the right way, every time.

Plains Midstream Canada is looking for a Materials Technician based at the Fort Saskatchewan facility. Reporting to the Maintenance Manager. This is a key position supporting all activities within the facility working with Operations, maintenance, project engineering and construction. This position is permanent/full-time, Monday through Friday dayshift.

**Responsibilities**:

- Inventory management and controls, shipping/receiving of goods, parts kitting/staging, physical inventory cycle counts
- Managing physical distribution of materials to customers/stakeholders
- Operating Warehouse equipment such as forklift, pallet jacks and company vehicle as required
- Housekeeping (including warehouse, warm, cold, north storage buildings, and outside shipping receiving area) ensuring that areas are clean, decluttered, and Plains' assets are protected
- Following quality assurance/quality control process for ABSA/PMC related documentation and controls. MTR-LOC compliance, SDS labelling, Hazardous goods shipping
- Conducting physical inventory counts routinely to ensure correct balance, maintaining and verifying inventory of spare parts, chemicals and consumables
- Identifying and implementing cost improvements through managing obsolescence and duplications, determining the disposal of material
- Coordinate shipping and deliveries to meet site schedules
- Works with Team Leaders to develop effective minimum/maximum order levels to support inventory
- Optimize consumable, maintenance and critical spare inventory based on FIFO concepts
- Management of temporary rental equipment
- Large Project/Outage related materials management
- Maintaining multiple storage facilities - surplus and project materials and assets
- Managing consumable/VMI stock with multiple vendors
- Inventory purchasing through requisition process
- Daily focus on individual and team safety - workfront preparation, pre-job hazard assessments, hazard identification
- Understanding and adhering to safety practices, procedures, and policies
- Provide support during non-business hours as necessary

Qualifications:

- 7+ years of relevant industry experience working in a warehouse
- Materials Technician or Parts Technician certification
- A minimum of 5 years of relevant supply chain management experience
- Demonstrates excellent communications, organizational and business skills
- Consistently meet internal customers’ expectations and company performance measures
- Excellent skills in effectively working within cross-functional teams, and generating results through coordinating the inputs and efforts of others
- Demonstrates ability to drive for results with mínimal supervision; must have a strong work ethic
- Able to prioritize multiple requirements
- Proficient in Maximo, software skills with Microsoft suite of tools
- Capable of lifting 50 lbs.
- Valid driver’s license with a clean abstract
- Cleared criminal history (background) and satisfactory reference checks
- Compliance with the Company’s drug and alcohol policy including pre-employment D&A testing; and
- Compliance with the Company’s requirement to be clean shaven to ensure proper fit of emergency PPE.

Note:
_Permanent residency within 120 km of the Fort Saskatchewan Facility is a condition of employment._

Our employees drive our success. At Plains, hard work is rewarded with competitive compensation and a top-tier benefits program designed to keep you safe, healthy and happy. We work hard to deliver exceptional results to our stakeholders while also respecting our employees’ need for personal and family time, which is reflected in our great

benefits program
- As part of our goal to be an employer of choice, Plains is also committed to doing business in a sustainable and responsible manner. To learn more about our Sustainability and ESG (environmental, social and governance) initiatives, read our 2021

Plains Sustainability Report


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