Tandem Dump Truck Operator

Pika Landscapes has been creating and maintaining beautiful outdoor spaces in Whistler and beyond for more than 20 years.

If you have experience driving a large truck and a class 1 or 3 license, we’d like to talk to you.

We’re known for:

- Open book management: everyone learns how the business runs, the numbers behind it and how their efforts impacts it. If we hit the goals we set together, everyone shares in the profit with quarterly pay outs.
- Organic principles (Whistler’s only certified Organic Landscape business)
- Supporting a great work-life balance in a lifestyle-oriented mountain resort town
- Having fun
- Our new vehicles and equipment
- Cultivating a tight-knit, high performing team
- Lots of 3-day weekends during the summer months
- Overtime pay (not the industry norm)
- Having systems in place for much of what we do
- Creating growth opportunities for staff:

- transparent organizational structure
- detailed job descriptions and pay scale for each role
- annual budget allocated to key staff education and training

**This is a full-time (~40hr/week, Monday to Friday) seasonal role starting late March and wrapping up sometime in November depending on weather.**
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While based in Whistler, we also service Squamish and Pemberton.

We’re looking for someone qualified with roots in the Sea to Sky, or looking to plant them.

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**Job overview**

As pilot of our only heavy duty dump truck, your job will be to support our landscape crews with the delivery and disposal of bulk materials like gravel and soil. You’ll also be hired out to other contractors in town.

You will report to our Logistics Supervisor.

**Specific responsibilities**

You’ll work and manage your time independently and be comfortable with constantly shifting priorities and plans. Some days will unfold differently than expected.
- Ensure materials arrive safely and efficiently to job sites
- Optimize your schedule: proactively communicate with clients, your supervisor and site foremen to maximize daily needs and limit drive and down time
- Engage on site: upon arrivals at load or drop sites, you’ll interact with clients, co-workers and suppliers to conduct hazard assessments and develop load and unload strategies for smooth and safe operations
- pickup of bulk materials at Pika’s centrally located works yard or nearby material suppliers and dump at job sites. Includes operating a front-end loader to load truck.
- delivery of bulk material to job sites
- care and preventative maintenance of dump truck
- maintaining detailed time and material logs of your day through our mobile app

**About the Pika tandem dump truck**
- 2008 Kenworth T800

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**You’ll be good at this job if**
- You’re comfortable with technology e.g. easily able to lean how to use mobile apps
- You’re organized and adaptable: schedules and circumstances often change no matter how well we plan, so you roll with it with a smile. You have a habit of writing things down and prioritizing.
- You’re always thinking about how to do things better (faster, safer, more efficiently) and you take the initiative to put those adjustments in motion
- You’re responsible and dependable
- You like working with others, but are also happy to work independently for long periods of time
- You love being outside rain or shine
- You’re self-aware, can take direct feedback and want to grow personally
- You listen well, follow instructions and ask questions when things aren’t clear
- You communicate effectively and proactively. You’ll be in contact with all crews daily.
- You’re keen to learn
- You’re accountable and have a mature sense of personal responsibility: you say what you think, make commitments and follow through
- You’re inclined to smile and be polite even when you don’t feel like it. We want our customers to love you.
- You like to have fun. Some days are tough due to foul weather, project surprises, challenging personalities, or difficult work but you’re skilled at modelling fun no matter what.
- You sweat the details. We don’t cut corners and quality is critical.

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**Requirements**:

- Secondary school diploma
- A class 1 or 3 driver’s license and a clean driving record
- Some experience driving heavy equipment
- An able body that can handle physical tasks. Able to lift 100lb objects, and 50lbs over your head.
- A working visa or permanent residency

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**Compensation and benefits**
- $31 - $34/hour depending on driver’s license class and experience
- Instant eligibility for our company profit share program. If we hit or exceed our goals, you’ll share in the outcome.
- A health spending account
- Overtime pay: 1.5x time for any hours greater than 40 worked per week
- Cell phone bill reimburse
- Weekly payroll
- Access to subsidized shared staff accommodation during busy season if available. This could be a short-term landing spot for you while you sort out long-term accommodation.
- Support for