Insulation Apprentice

**Position Title: Insulation Apprentice**

**Company Overview**

Greensaver is Ontario’s leading non-profit energy conservation organization. For nearly 30 years, we’ve helped people, businesses, and utility companies reduce their carbon footprint and, therefore, protect the environment. In total, we have helped over 100,000 homeowners, renters, and small businesses reduce their energy consumption and overall utility costs.

**Our mission** is to provide turn-key energy efficiency solutions for homes and small businesses, to deliver a sustainable future.

**Our vision** is to be Canada’s trusted energy conservation partner.

Greensaver’s leadership team has decades of experience delivering energy efficiency, conservation, and demand management solutions for utilities, municipalities, and businesses. Our team consists of experts in program management and design, marketing, customer service, energy evaluations and building retrofits.

**Here is why our current employees love working in our Insulation division and why you will too**
- Great work environment - positive staff that work _together as a team._
- Stability, we offer Full Time hours with a minimum of 35-40hrs++/week.
- Growth Potential - ongoing training and advancement opportunities in as little as 3 months
- Earning Potential; you bring the work ethic and the desire to learn and the sky is the limit.
- Strong industry presence with over 25 years’ experience delivering home energy efficiency programs.
- Fresh challenges - work on new projects at different sites around the GTA every week
- Clean, current, and safe vehicles & equipment for you to use
- Close to Public Transportation.
- Team atmosphere with lots of free perks

**What’s in it for you**:
Industry leading compensation with potential increase within as little as only 3 months based on performance.
- Paid vacation, sick days, and personal days (Total of 17 paid days in the first year)
- Group benefits (dental, vision, prescription drugs, etc.)
- Group RRSP Option
- Life Insurance
- EcoBenefits
- Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Education Assistance Program

**Job Type**: **Full Time, Permanent**

**Reports to**: **Supervisor, Retrofits and Operations Manager, Retrofits**

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Residential and commercial projects, including but not limited to the following:

- Air barrier systems and transition membranes
- Interior or exterior insulation installation
- Attic, slope and flat roof insulation
- Basement insulation
- Wall insulation with cellulose and foam
- Exterior wall air barrier and insulation systems
- Air sealing, including weather-stripping on doors
- Complete job preparation as required including removal of insulation and debris from homes.
- Other duties as requested and assigned by the Operations Manager, Retrofits or Supervisor, Retrofits.

**Physical Activity Description**:
Physical activities include, but are not limited to:

- Physical requirements: Manual dexterity, standing for extended periods; bending, crouching, kneeling, standing with weight.
- Climbing up and down stairs in houses and on trucks and crawling into crawl spaces.
- Pulling, pushing and torso twisting movements to transfer materials from truck.
- Frequent lifting and carrying of insulation with weight up to 50 pounds.
- Working in cold, hot, and humid conditions.
- Working at heights.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Construction or general labour experience.
- Valid G Drivers License.
- Effective written and oral communication skills (ability to speak, read and write English).
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- General tool skills including hand tools.
- Works well under pressure.
- Criminal Background Check and Drivers Abstract (to be completed by Greensaver).

**Work Setting**:
Residential; Commercial

**Compensation**:
**Greensaver is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.**

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

**Salary**: $21.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Commuter benefits
- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

COVID-19 considerations:
There is a specific COVID-19 Policy in place.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Toronto, ON M8Z 2X2: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you legally authorized to w