Maintenance Superintendent

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Western Forest Products is hiring for a Maintenance Superintendent to join our Ladysmith Sawmill Operation team based on Vancouver Island, BC.

What You’ll Do: With an overarching objective of ensuring a safe work environment, you will lead our high-performing maintenance team at our Ladysmith division. Your responsibilities include executing safety initiatives, analyzing financial performance, improving operational efficiencies, and providing leadership and direction to both staff and unionized employees on the maintenance team, contractors and other service providers.

Who You Are: The ideal candidate will come with 5+ years of experience as a Maintenance Superintendent, preferably in wood products manufacturing or a similar heavy industry. We are seeking a self-motivated leader with a strong sense of initiative, ability to build strong relationships, and who is diligent and consistently ensures a high standard for safety. The ideal candidate will be a Journeyman Millwright or an Engineer.

What We Offer:

• Salary range of $115,000 - $130,000 based on skill level, qualifications, and experience
• Annual performance bonus
• Pension plan contributions - WFP contributes 7% towards a pension plan, no matching required
• Extended health and dental benefits – WFP pays for 100% of the employee monthly premiums
• 4 weeks’ vacation to start
• Employee family assistance program
• Financial support for learning and development opportunities

Work Environment: This role is to be performed in person at the Ladysmith Sawmill on Vancouver Island, BC.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Direct and manage unionized maintenance personnel and contractors to ensure that all equipment operates at its highest capability to meet required production schedules, quality and cost priorities;
• Hire, train, coach, mentor and manage performance of both staff and hourly maintenance employees;
• Work closely with your safety advisor on key safety initiatives and maintain crew training as per requirements;
• Perform accurate and timely incident investigations, ensuring adherence to deadlines, with the overarching objective of identifying route causes and implementing corrective actions;
• Responsible for completing and regularly reviewing Personal Goals and Measures (PGM) documents with staff to ensure goals and targets are achieved;
• Provide leadership in safety and environmental stewardship by demonstrating and ensuring the adherence to company safety and sustainability processes and procedures;
• Support and promote company Safety Management Systems by working closely with your safety advisor on key safety initiatives;
• Responsible for completing monthly environmental & weekly safety inspections per Safety Management System and Company Environmental Management System;
• Support the interpretation of financial data and analytics to identify cost saving opportunities;
• Support the analysis of downtime reports and other relevant metrics;
• Work with the Maintenance Planners to develop action plans to increase efficiencies and equipment reliability;
• Executes maintenance schedules and processes that are cost effective, increases the availability, and maximizes the operational life of equipment;
• Supervise all maintenance activities and support capital project cost management and delivery schedules;
• Day to day balancing of planned maintenance as well as critical repairs to enable equipment productivity and minimize downtime;
• Optimizes parts availability in the warehouse to minimize equipment downtime while balancing cost effective maintenance inventory management;
• Ensure equipment repairs meet manufacturer's specifications, WorkSafeBC regulations and/or Company standards;
• Stay abreast of industry innovations and trends in safety and environmental performance and new technology or equipment to improve company margins; and
• Daily entry to Computerized Maintenance Systems (CMMS) including creating “break down” Maintenance work orders, data entry and closing work orders.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• 10+ years experience working in an industrial maintenance department, preferably in forestry or similar heavy industry;
• Minimum 5 years experience supervising and managing staff with experience managing a unionized crew as an asset, and
• Millwright or engineer TQ with Inter-Provincial endorsement, post-secondary degree or equivalent experience is required.

Skills, Knowledge and Required Competencies

• Commitment to Western’s core values of personal safety, sustainable management, and environmental stewardship;
• Comprehensive knowledge of logging and/or heavy equipment maintenance and repair;
• Strong project management skills;
• Understanding of financial reports and forecasting;
• High level of integrity and professionalism;
• Ability to motivate and engage hourly employees to perform at a higher standard;
• Demonstrated strong analytical, problem solving and logical thinking skills;
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal and communication skills;
• Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset;
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel; and,
• Proficiency in the use of Project Management as well as CMMS is desired.

YOUR CAREER

At Western Forest Products, we believe our most significant asset is our people. Investing in our people brings value and success to our business, ensuring a safe, engaged, productive and continuously improving workplace. We offer challenging opportunities working alongside the best in the industry to meet your career and professional development goals while providing competitive total rewards and recognition.

We provide a variety of on-the-job training and continuing education in many areas at Western to ensure you have the skills you need to succeed. Our promote-from-within culture recognizes high performance and we offer diverse career paths across the organization for those with the talent and will to advance.

WESTERN OVERVIEW

Western Forest Products is a leading forest products company that sustainably manages forests and manufactures high-quality wood products. Headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with operations in the coastal region of BC and Washington State, Western meets the needs of customers worldwide with a specialty wood products focus and diverse product offering.

Our commitment to health and safety, environmental stewardship and community engagement is core to how we do business at Western Forest Products.

Our approach to responsible business practices in all aspects of our business is multi-faceted. We adhere to and employ the most stringent environmental practices in the world. The steps we take to ensure the forests in which we operate are renewed and remain healthy and viable for future generations are mirrored in the care we take to make certain our communities continue to grow and prosper. This includes investing in communities where we operate and continuing to forge mutually beneficial relationships with First Nations in respect of their local and cultural interests.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: $115,000.00-$130,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Paid time off

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Work Location: In person