The Role
Maintains and monitors plant utility systems, including ammonia refrigeration, hot water, wastewater, and secondary production equipment. Performs daily safety inspections, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, emergency breakdown repairs, building repairs, and equipment documentation. Supports maintenance, production, and sanitation teams while following food safety, workplace safety, legislative, HACCP, and BRC requirements.
Summary Generated by Built In
Sunrise Farms is a group of companies with primary focus in the poultry industry.
From our hatcheries to our “ready to eat” state of the art cooking facilities we service customers in the retail, food service and industrial sectors. We are proud of our support of the Canadian farm as well as our investment in the latest equipment and technologies at our facilities across Canada. Our test kitchens have the most current cooking equipment replicating that used in commercial establishments, to facilitate precision testing. This way you know the product you receive will perform to your expectations. We are proud of our long-standing partnerships with family-owned Canadian chicken farmers to produce high quality products.
Position Summary:
To provide the Plant with a high level of maintenance expertise that ensures departmental downtime meets Company objectives efficiently and to carry out equipment and building repairs as required, while adhering to quality, safety and legislative guidelines.
Responsibilities
- You will perform all daily inspections set forth by Technical Safety BC, including monitoring (ammonia) refrigeration plant, hot water systems, waste water plant while adhering to food safety and safety guidelines.
- Call appropriate support companies when required.
- You would assist and support the Maintenance attendants and mechanics with trouble shooting and repairs according to scheduling to minimize down time and excessive costs.
- Assist and support production and sanitation when required.
- You will respond to all breakdown calls, assess and repair immediately or as quickly as possible, limiting plant/machine downtime.
- Ensure secondary production equipment such as conveyors, dumpsters and simple machines are maintained as per preventative maintenance program.
- You'll require good communication skills with Team Members, Supervisors, Managers, and all plant employees.
- Reports all defects, errors in production, machinery which may affect the workplace to the, Maintenance Supervisor/ Manager.
- Responsible for completing filling the paper work, Daily work sheets, Preventative maintenance logs, Finalizing work orders, other paperwork as required.
- Ensure good housekeeping and maintaining a tidy safe work area.
- You'll need to be able to carry out building repairs with a high level of concentration and alertness.
- You will have a full understanding of JSA’s, SOP’s and HACCP, BRC or any other food safety compliance’s.
- Performs other duties as required by management.
Requirements:
- Grade 12 Education.
- 4th class power engineering certificate.
- Post-secondary education and training, preferred.
- Mechanical aptitude and ability.
- Positive attitude with a willingness to learn.
- Willingness to work overtime as required.
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At Sunrise Farms we are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or any other identifying characteristic are encouraged to apply.
Please note that the expected new hire salary range provided is derived from a group of like roles within Sunrise Farms. The final offer amount for this role will be dependent on geographical region, applicable experience, and skillset of the candidate.
Skills Required
- Grade 12 education
- 4th class power engineering certificate
- Post-secondary education and training
- Mechanical aptitude and ability
- Positive attitude and willingness to learn
- Willingness to work overtime as required
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The Company
What We Do
Sunrise Farms is a group of companies with primary focus in the poultry industry including: hatchery operations; poultry farming; primary processing; further processing; and distribution of food across Canada. From the humble beginnings of one small processing facility in Surrey, British Columbia in 1983, we have since grown to serve a wide range of customers, both domestically and internationally. Our Canadian family owned and operated businesses produce quality food products from processing plants located in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Included in our businesses are: - Sunrise Poultry Processors Ltd. - produces fresh and frozen poultry protein - Grand River Foods Ltd. - produces ready to eat food products
