Brake Operator

Job Description

Pride Bodies Ltd., a Wabtec Company in Cambridge, Ontario, offers custom design and truck-body manufacturing and upfitting of utility, service, construction, railway and other custom truck bodies. Our environmentally-friendly truck bodies are researched, designed and customized to our customers’ satisfaction.

As a member of the team at Pride Bodies Ltd., you will be working daily in the Brake and Shear Department with 2 other employees and the department supervisor.

• Uphold priorities of Safety, Quality, Continuous Improvement and Teamwork;
• Perform work that is accurate and finished to the satisfaction of our end customers.

• High School/GED diploma required;
• Able to maintain regular and reliable attendance;
• Able to work safely at all times, checking for hazards before starting any task;
• Able to perform work in a timely manner, within tolerances with minimal scrap;
• Capable of calculating cut sizes from existing parts made;
• Excellent communication skills and a positive attitude;
• Knowledge of running a brake, shear and cut-off saw;
• Able to read a tape measure correctly;
• Able to read and understand engineering drawings;
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Understand instructions and carry them out efficiently within the given deadline;

• Apply safe automotive/manufacturing work practices;
• Read and understand shop drawings to enable independent work;
• Take all work orders from start to finish with little supervision;
• Make all styles of doors, shelving packages and all standard body panel forming
• Document materials usage and scrap correctly;
• Stack parts for easy access for the next operation and label both parts and skids/containers correctly;

• Help operations in the fabricating area;

You may also be asked to perform other duties outside of your function or trade for which adequate training will be provided if necessary.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and depth perception.

Safety glasses, steel-toed safety shoes and hearing protection must be worn for the entirety of the shift.

• Day shift: 41-hour work week, 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. M-Th, 7 a.m. to Noon F;
• Wage range: $27.69 - $34.42 per hour;

• Competitive compensation package;
• Annual vacation, company-paid holidays;
• Benefits, effective upon hire, include health care, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death & dismemberment, disability coverage, out-of-country medical, Group RRSP/DPSP
• Annual safety-boot allowance and prescription-safety-glass allowance;
  Uniforms upon completion of probation period;
• Education assistance;
• On bus route; on-site parking.

Wabtec will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Canada for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background check.

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