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Our team is looking for an Industrial Journeyman Electrician for our site in Abbotsford, BC.

Join our family of diverse, talented, and dedicated people and become part of an industry-leading company as we strive to be the most successful food company in the world.

Title: Journeyman Electrician

Location: 31894 Marshall Rd.
Abbotsford BC
V2T 5Z9 Canada

Job Type: Hourly

What we have to offer

• Start time: AM, Tuesday to Saturday
• Overtime opportunities as per business needs
• Hourly rate: $43.00 plus shift premium
• Health benefits after probation
• Dental Benefits
• Short term disability benefits after working 4,160 hours
• Pension Plan
• Life insurance
• Discount in meat products
• Competitive Referral bonus
• Unionized facility

Main Duties:

• Performs all repairs, develop, and carry out preventative maintenance inspections, follows preventative maintenance schedule to sustain optimal performance of equipment and minimize downtime and costs in compliance with HACCP rules, JSA's and SOP's and other requirements.
• Production line troubleshooting, identify spare parts required and ordering of parts
• Develop preventative maintenance program for all production machinery, boiler and refrigeration equipment.
• Organize all electrical parts and put a part request based on consumption and critical inventory.
• Responsible for troubleshooting of machinery to minimize downtime; acts upon an intense sense of urgency to on-floor calls and emergencies
• Responsible for completing a work schedule in cooperation with departments and Maintenance & Production Supervisors
• Acts a liaison for contractors conducting repairs in the plant
• Ensures that all required documentation is completed correctly and on-time. i.e. Daily Time Sheets, pre-operational forms, preventative maintenance logs, temperature recording and equipment monitoring, work orders, etc.
• All work performed and completed may require skills such as electrical, PLC Programming, refrigeration, hydraulics, pneumatics, vacuum, plumbing, fabricating and other areas as needed.

• Performs other duties as required

Requirements:

• Valid provincial Industrial Electrician Journeyman Certificate is required
• 2 years' experience in food packaging and total 5 years of experience as an electrician including apprenticeship, equipment and industrial maintenance experience
• Good knowledge of electronics and PLC technologies and trouble shooting skills
• Understands programmable controls and is computer literate
• Additional Skilled Trade Licenses (Millwright Journeyman /4^th class power engineer) would be an asset
• Good writing and oral communications skills
• Assess decision making qualities and work under pressure
• Work in conditions under 10˚C.
• Responsible for compliance to Health and Safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, Food Safety and Environmental Standards at all times.

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities:

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding - lifting up to 50lbs
• Attention to detail
• Work under pressure
• Handling heavy loads
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Standing for extended periods
• Production deadlines

• Cold/refrigerated

Sofina Foods Inc.is a privately owned Canadian company headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada dedicated to providing great-tasting, high-quality food products for consumers.

Our workforce is exceptionally diverse with professional opportunities across many functional areas of our business.

Consider applying for one of our exciting opportunities today.

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