Maintenance Mechanic

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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 13 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.

Job Role:

Service and maintain all plant equipment in a timely and efficient manner. Provide technical support to production operators throughout the plant.

Job Responsibilities:       

• Maintain a high sense of Food Safety responsibility at all times
• Maintain a high sense of Safety responsibility at all times.
• Responding and reacting to mechanical issues in the production environment in a timely and efficient manner. Completing maintenance projects, PM tasks and work orders as assigned.
• Strong mechanical skills
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting skills
• Electrical/ladder logic skills
• Ability to read electrical schematics
• Understanding of electric motors, starters, switches, photo cells, etc.
• PLC skills a plus
• Familiarity with CMMS work order systems
• Ability to write parts requests, complete work orders and write corrective work orders
• Understanding of reading mechanical diagrams a must
• Understanding of preventive maintenance
• Food manufacturing background a plus with an understanding of FDA requirements
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) must be followed continually
• Computer literacy a must
• Cleaning of work area(s) required
• Timely responses to production calls
• Perform PM’s
• Perform building inspections and routines
• Communicate with other team members
• Perform Lock-Out-Tag-Out when necessary and work safely at all times

Skills Needed:

• Should be able to understand blueprints and drawings
• Must be able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Must be able to make decisions
• Should have a working knowledge of at least two of the following:Welding, Machining, Plumbing, Pipefitting, Electricity
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds
• Must be able to work around very strong magnets
• Must be able to read and write English

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.

If you’re excited about this opportunity and love baked goods, we invite you to apply!

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.

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