Maintenance Electrician – Wonderbrands

Title of the Job: Maintenance Electrician

Location: Kitchener, ON

Job Description: Job Posting:Wonderbrands is a leading North American bakery company with a specialized focus across key bakery categories, including breads & rolls; alternatives breads, and others. We are the makers of Wonder®Bread, Country Harvest®, D’Italiano®, Gadoua®, and Casa Mendosa™ tortillas. We bake our products in 14 facilities across Canada, conducting our business with integrity, contributing to our communities, and fostering a respectful culture. We are building a culture of success here, and it depends on our people striving for greatness and having the courage and commitment to getting better every day.As we forge ahead in the transformation of our business, we are coming together as a united North American enterprise, rebuilding our asset base, adding significant new capacity, and focusing on the development of our people. These building blocks are essential to moving forward as a growth-focused, insights-driven, consumer-led company that will celebrate food and the central part that food plays in our life.Location: 560 Victoria Street North, Kitchener
Wage: $38.74/hour
Shift: Day shift (flexibility with working overtime, and on weekends, as necessary)Job Details:

• Provide technical support to operations; including troubleshooting, parts identification and repair of equipment
• Primary responsibility for operational performance – measured through efficiency percentages
• Act as liaison for OEM support for advanced troubleshooting and diagnostics
• Participate in continuous improvement activities including root cause analysis and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Perform routine corrective, preventive and predictive maintenance as needed on automation equipment
• Lead training for operators and other technicians on function and operation of equipment
• Develop operating standards and documentation
• Provide input on stock levels of spare parts as it relates to equipment
• Read and interpret schematic diagrams
• Periodic shift changes required for training, vacation coverage and special projects
• Aptitude with mechanical and electrical systems, vacation coverage for either mechanics or electricians

Job Requirements:

• Must have Industrial Electrician License (442A) or Construction and Maintenance 309A
• Experience and education in hardware and software support and troubleshooting skills
• Strong Mechanical Aptitude
• 2-5 years’ industrial, electrical and mechanical experience, preferably in the food industry
• Strong knowledge of PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) and ability to assist all trades people as required
• Problem solving skills and good communication skills are required
• Ability to work any shift, as well as on weekends and holidays
• Must be comfortable lifting up to 50lbs as needed

If you are an experienced electrician with industrial experience, please apply today!We offer a competitive benefits package for full-time employees, including strong benefit and pension plans, paid vacation and holidays, overtime opportunities, and a growth path to line leader and supervisory roles.Wonderbrands is committed to fostering a work environment with strong core values that support diversity through various policies, programs and activities that encourage sensitivity and accommodations. Wonderbrands offers employment regardless of race, colour, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Diversity is integral to our success as an organization and we will use diversity as a model to help identify and develop the best talent, create effective teams, and achieve overall excellence. In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.#LI-MD1

Company Name: Wonderbrands

Salary: $38.74 per hour

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