Electrical Installer

Meet the Smart Safety Company

At Safe Fleet our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles – and everyone in and around them – safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in‑class products, ground‑breaking technology, and a 100‑year history of fleet know‑how and innovation to solve the world’s biggest fleet safety problems.

Our core value is safety. Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This is true for our products, our culture, and our relationship with our community. Our vision is to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles with a goal of ZERO accidents.

We are re‑defining what safety means for fleets of every type – from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.

Whether you work in our Charlotte plant to build life‑saving stop arms for school buses, or design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high‑quality nozzles to fight fires, or dream up new ways to protect fleet operators in our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you’ll contribute to our goal to keep everyone safe.

We are a fast‑growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1700 employees in over 15 locations across Canada and the US.

We’re looking for motivated self‑starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals. Sound like you? Work for the Smart Safety Company Pulltarps, a Safe Fleet company and a leader in the truck equipment manufacturing industry, is looking for an Installation Technician to work as part of a team installing and repairing Automated Tarp Systems.

This important team member partners with others to install Roll‑Rite or Pulltarps systems according to company processes, and operating manual instructions. The Installation Technician performs basic wiring, does minor welding and operates industrial sewing machines to repair and produce completed products.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Installations:

• Prepare customer truck/trailer by inspecting equipment for installation
• Installs and services company products and/or systems efficiently according to service schedules. Use tape measurers, sewing machines, drills, impacts and welders to install tarp systems or make repairs
• Basic steel welding of bracketry, and other support items for system installation
• Runs appropriate lengths of electrical wire through frames, rails, and connects. Tests electrical plugs, motors and switches
• Documents all work performed according to company guidelines
• Qualifies service work for warranty coverage within company policy and in conjunction with management
• Examines issues with walk‑in customers and makes quick repairs if possible.

Tarp Sewing

• Sets up and operates industrial sewing machines, as well as performs machine maintenance to include:
  Oiling;
  Properly threading;
  Cleaning machines.
• Effectively reads and interprets the job order, shop drawings and verbal/written instructions.
• Prepares materials to be used for each job by laying material out, accurately measuring with a ruler and cutting with material scissors.
• Moves completed product from work table to appropriate area by lifting as needed.
• Applies knowledge of industrial sewing to accurately move product around during sewing operation.
• Attaches job order to completed product.
• Adheres to safety guidelines at all times.
• Reports problems or discrepancies to management immediately.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/

Experience:

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Prior work experience on industrial sewing machines is desired but will train the right…