Maintenance Technician

La Cocina Foods is currently hiring a hard-working, success-driven individual looking for a long-term career in the unique world of food production. The successful candidate will join the La Cocina Maintenance Team in Ste. Anne, MB and will be responsible for keeping the facilities in excellent condition and equipment running smoothly.

The successful candidate in this role is an individual who can participate in an efficient team that produces top-quality products, believes in collaboration, builds relationships, and values the perspective of others. Our maintenance team interacts frequently with the rest of the La Cocina team. Therefore, the successful candidate must not only have the necessary technical skills but also excellent people skills and a humble heart.

Why it matters:

La Cocina is a Canadian family-owned and operated food manufacturing facility that, for over 40 years, has been providing high-quality corn tortillas and tortilla chips. While rapidly growing, La Cocina prides itself on being an employer of choice with a culture of respect, kindness and hard work.

What you’ll do:

• Daily maintenance checks, ensuring equipment is in proper working order
• Preventive maintenance and troubleshooting equipment problems
• Completing required paperwork in an accurate and timely manner
• Following food safety protocols and performing duties in a safe manner
• Demonstrate key influence in sustaining and creating a positive work culture of humility, warmth, friendliness and diligent, hard work.

Who you’ll work with:

• You will work alongside our current maintenance team as well as the Production staff. Reporting to the Maintenance Supervisor, you will be part of a team dedicated to fostering a culture of support, high quality, efficiency, food safety, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

Who you are:

• You are looking for a career in Maintenance and Food Production and:
• A proven hard worker, a go-getter, one who consistently goes above and beyond
• Humble, positive, and dependable
• A good listener/communicator, shows interest in others, kind, respectful
• Someone who is detail-oriented, fast, and takes pride in their work
• Someone who enjoys having a lot of diversity in day-to-day tasks
• Able to work a flexible schedule that includes on-call/overtime as required
• Have a minimum grade 12 education.
• Have 3+ years of maintenance experience (a combination of relevant education and experience may be considered), such as: Electric motors; Basic knowledge of electrical and plumbing; TIG welding and stainless-steel fabrication ability; Light to medium industrial maintenance duties; Basic knowledge of VFD’s, PLC’s, & pneumatics
• Have prior experience working with food, machinery and computers/technology is an asset, as is training and knowledge with Forklift Certification, WHMIS, First Aid and the Manitoba Workplace Safety & Health Act.

What we offer:

• Competitive wages and benefits, paid breaks, free chips and tortillas, an annual new shoe program and the opportunity to work with excellent people in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.
• Encouragement to grow in your knowledge, develop your skills and advance as a leader.

Millwrights, Apprentices or those with a minimum of 2 years related experience are welcome to apply.

Starting wage will be negotiable depending on the applicant’s qualifications.