Field Service Technician - Manufacturing

Are you safety conscious, take pride in your mechanical and electrical skills, and representing your trade with professionalism?

If so, We'd like to meet you! Our client, a global leader in industrial food processing equipment is looking for a Saskatoon based service technician to support their local clientele base.
This is a fully remote, field-based role. You’ll be provided with a tooled company service vehicle, cellphone, and laptop. Coordinating daily and weekly work orders via client maintenance CRM, and managing service calls.
You’ll travel to various customer sites throughout the province to support installs, perform diagnostics, maintenance, and repairs.

This is a great role for someone who enjoys working on different projects and interacting with multiple teams on-site, and a successful candidate will ideally have field services and maintenance experience.

Role: Service Technician
Schedule: Typically Monday to Friday daytime (with OT as needed) and monitoring work cell to triage after hours emergancy breaks downs
Pay Rate: $40+/hour (based on experience and qualifications) OT past 40 hours and double time on the weekends
Environment: Field-based role with travel to customer sites in the food sector


Advantages
What’s in it for you:
- Minimum 40 hours per week (regardless of service levels that week)
- OT after 40 and Double times if you ever need to go in on a weekend
- equipment is at food industry companies- mostly climate control rooms
- essential sector being serviced!
- company paid benefits plan
- Strong RRSP plan
- tight knit maintenance service team - about 8
- annual work wear allowance
- paid sick days
- paid travel expenses
- car (which you can also use for personal travel as well), phone and laptop provided
- provided tools
- provided equipment needed for service role
- training and development opportunities - training paid for and done overseas!
- works with large, known food brands
- long tenure at company - some at 14 years, others at 20 years

Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing:
- interact with senior management and maintenance teams
- troubleshoot equipment issues and perform appropriate repairs
- work with various food processing equipment including: mixing, blending, emulsifying, batch cooking, sausage filling lines, linking equipment for meat and food processors
- travel to different sites within Saskatchewan and be in a customer facing role

Qualifications
What we're looking for:
- Prior experience working as a Service Technician - full understanding of electrical codes with a mechanical aptitude
- Preference for 433a Millwright license or 442a Industrial Electrician, however strong mechanical experience is necessary
- ability to work in a service , travel role / previous service technician experience an asset
- ability to lift 10KG to 25KG
- food equipment repair experience an asset
- ability to work flexible hours, depending on the project
- ability to be in meat, bakery, dairy settings
- valid driver's license
- computer literate (Microsoft skill set)
- professionalism to deal with clients, good time judgement skills for projects and eager to keep learning

Summary
This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled Service Technician who enjoys working in the field, tackling diverse challenges, and being the go-to expert for customers.

How to apply:
- Apply directly to this posting
- Email your resume to ty.hinds@randstad.ca with the subject line: “Service Tech– SK”
- Visit www.randstad.ca to apply through our job portal

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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