Maintenance Technician

**Maintenance Technician**

**Wage Range**: $28-34*
- Commensurate with experience

**Shifts available**:
Days: 6:00am - 4:30pm (Mon - Thurs OR Tues - Fri)

Weldco-Beales Manufacturing (WBM) designs and manufactures specialized heavy equipment attachments for the construction, forestry, mining, scrap recycling, road maintenance** **and resource industries throughout Canada, the USA and internationally. WBM prides itself on providing a great employee experience where safety is a way of life. Weldco-Beales is currently recruiting a **Maintenance Technician** for the **Barrie** manufacturing team. This position will report to the **General Foreman**.

**Our Culture**

Weldco-Beales prides itself on maintaining a strong culture of safety, hard work, and customer satisfaction. We embrace the values of safety, quality, and community. We are looking for hard working people who will stand behind our products and services to help us become the trusted leader in the heavy equipment industry.

**Why join our team?**
- Multiple schedule options with shorter work weeks
- Competitive pay, including Shift Premiums for Afternoon and Weekend shifts
- Comprehensive benefits package, including STD and LTD
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Pension Plan with 3% company matching
- Rewards:

- monthly incentive program with monetary rewards
- service awards in 5-year increments
- company/team events
- personal growth
- career advancement opportunities
- Education and apprenticeship support including EI top-up payments
- A workplace the prides itself on safety, cleanliness, respect, and results

**What you will do**:

- Ensure the safe working operations and longevity of all equipment through regular preventative maintenance
- Troubleshoot, maintain, repair or replace defective parts, components or systems, using hand and power tools
- Plan and carry out larger maintenance projects, as needed
- Interpret work orders and technical manuals
- Check bulldozers, cranes, graders and other heavy construction, agricultural, logging and mining equipment for proper performance
- Service attachments and working tools such as harvesting and tillage equipment, blades, ploughs, winches and side booms
- Assist in the Mechanical, Electrical, or Hydraulic assembly of production attachments when required.
- Perform repair work on heavy trucks if necessary
- Attach components and adjust new equipment when required
- Respond promptly and courteously to requests from those at all levels of the company
- Participate in the continuous improvement of the company through making suggestions which would improve and streamline processes without endangering the health and well-being of others or negatively impacting the bottom line.
- Practice, monitor and promote workplace safety by adhering to safety regulations, policies and procedures.

**Your qualifications**:

- 5+ years of related experience
- Confident in operating machine tools such as lathes & grinders to fabricate parts required during overhaul, maintenance or set up of machinery
- In-depth knowledge of all tools and equipment and their use and care
- Experience servicing hydraulic equipment
- High School Diploma or equivalent

**What you bring to the position**:

- Advanced knowledge of general safety practices
- Good knowledge of the manufacturing industry, our Company, products and services.
- Interpersonal skills to work collaboratively and cooperatively with people at all levels of the organization
- Ability to work independently at tasks that require concentration as well as physical effort
- Basic computer knowledge
- Time management skills to productively complete work and meet all deadlines
- Organizational skills to plan out and coordinate work in a logical manner
- Ability to lift items weighing up to 20 kg.

If you feel you fit the overall profile, please clearly demonstrate this in your cover letter and resume when applying.

**We are following provincial guidelines for COVID-19.**

**_ Weldco Companies is a subsidiary of IDC (Inuvialuit Development Corporation) and is 100% Inuvialuit owned. Weldco provides Employment and Career Development opportunities for its beneficiaries and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, Weldco’s goal is for our employees to be as diverse as our products. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require accommodation at any point throughout this process we will work with you to meet your needs._**

**_ Applications for this position may be kept on file for twelve months and may be considered for future positions within Weldco or IDC. Your interest in Weldco is appreciated. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted. No phone calls please._