Position Type:

Full-Time

Location:

Red Deer

Wage:

$28-32/ hour depending on experience

Proudly headquartered in Calgary, GreatWest Kenworth has been a cornerstone in Alberta's heavy-duty trucking sector for over 50 years. With seven branches strategically positioned across the province, including Calgary, Balzac, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Redcliff, Fox Creek (Parts only) and Clairmont, we are committed to upholding our role as the premier Heavy Duty Truck dealership.

We provide an excellent work environment, competitive salary, stability, and career progression avenues to skilled and dedicated professionals. Are you excited about our products and becoming part of a winning team? We invite hardworking individuals with skills and experience to contribute to our dynamic Alberta team.

The Building grounds and Maintenance person, will be responsible for performing general building and property maintenance. Maintain HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems and equipment. Responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain equipment according to safety, predictive, and productive maintenance systems and processes to support the achievement of the building's business goals and objectives. Reporting to the Service Manager, this role offers challenges as you’ll have a chance to work with the latest technology, giving you an opportunity to showcase your skills and experience. If you are an independent problem-solver with a passion for the industry, we want you to be a valuable member of the GreatWest Kenworth team.

- Provide emergency/unscheduled repairs of equipment, structures, and grounds on the property
- Perform mechanic skills including, but not limited to, mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, troubleshooting and repair.
- Perform regular property inspections of the dealership, including common areas, building exterior, and landscape.
- Ensure effective management of loss prevention, risk management, security, maintenance, marketing, landscaping, snow removal, ventilation, heating, cooling, and other daily activities.
- Plan and manage the replacement of major capital expense items such as HVAC system, roof systems, and parking lot surfaces.
- Provide general status reports for the dealership as scheduled.
- Request for quotations, make contracts, supervise work and approve invoices for all services required to maintain the dealership.
- Ensure 24/7 availability of emergency services (very rare).
- Clean light fixtures and change bulbs/tubes.
- Perform minor repairs on windows, doors, switches, desks, tables, plugs, equipment, appliances, sinks, toilets, blinds, etc.
- Contact appropriate maintenance service shop for major repairs.




- Responsible for vandalism clean up and repair within skill level.
- Maintain outside grounds (removes snow, ice, and debris, sprays and removes weeds, sweeps and cleans gutters, waters and maintains sprinkling system).
- Determine needed supplies and equipment.
- Monitor need for equipment maintenance and repair.
- Responsible for the proper inventory of materials and supplies.
- Keep up to date on Health and Safety Legislation and WHMIS requirements.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals and work orders to perform required maintenance and service.
- Diagnose problems, replace or repair parts, test and adjust as needed.
- Perform regular preventive maintenance on machines, equipment, and facilities.
- Perform a variety of plumbing maintenance and carpentry functions.
- Use a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters, and material handling equipment in performing duties.
- Detect faulty operations, defective material and report those and any unusual situations to proper supervision.
- Set priorities for preventative maintenance work orders, maintenance requisitions, and scheduled work.
- Prepare, paint, and decorate interior and exterior surfaces as required.
- Operate grounds-keeping power equipment and maintain the external property.
- Keep current with ongoing changes and new technology and adapt accordingly.
- Protected and competent operation of loader, skid steer, manlift, and company vehicles
- Snow plowing and loading of snow piles on truck to haul away. Must be able to come in at early hours before staff arrives clear snow as required.
- Operator maintenance of Loader, Skid steer, Man lift, and company vehicles. (Greasing, checking of fluid levels, tire pressures, and daily and monthly inspections).
- Minor repairs, service maintenance, and adjustments to fence and gates.
- Refueling of company vehicles. Keep all vehicles topped up with fuel and swept of snow.
- Washing and preparing new trucks for delivery
- Perform all other duties as assigned or needed.

- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written form
- High School Diploma
- Minimum of 2 years in the maintenance of buildings.
- Minimum 5 years of maintenance-related work experience required.
- Demonstrated ability to convert prospects and close deals while maintaining established sales quotas.
- Solid experience in opportunity qualification, pre-visit planning, call control, account development, and time and territory management.




- Success in qualifying opportunities involving multiple key decision makers.
- Strong problem identification and objection resolution skills.

- Typical Monday to Friday, 40 hours, 8 am-4 pm (flexible)
- 24/7 availability may be required but rare
- 4-5 am snow removal on days above 5 cm
- Travel to the site and local off-site locations will be required.
- Safety equipment will be required, e.g. steel-toed safety boots, safety glasses/goggles, etc.
- Overtime as required (rare).
- Work both indoors and outdoors.
- Ability to stand for long periods of time.
- Must be able to lift, push, pull, and move a minimum of 75 pounds.

At GreatWest Kenworth, our employers are committed to setting you up for success and here’s how:

- Education - Offering additional training to further your skill set from outside vendors like Kenworth, Cummins, Eaton and more.
- Property Protection - Being competitive with employee benefits like Toolbox Insurance to ensure your property is safe when it’s in our dealership
- Safety – Being the foundation for your role, we at GreatWest Kenworth are committed to physical safety in our work sites and safety in belonging to a team. This includes a Boot and Tool allowance for all positions that require PPE.
- Total Rewards – We offer industry competitive pay with both short term and long-term incentives to reward your hard work. Our Employees have fully paid medical, dental and life insurance benefits available to them and their families, as well as other programs to support your lifestyle in and out of work.

For a full list of the benefits we offer,

GreatWest Kenworth is an equal opportunity employer who values diversity in our workforce. We work to ensure that our policies and practices protect individuals and groups under applicable human rights legislation. We will respond to accessibility accommodations by applicants upon request.

**Recruitment Fraud**

Please note that some candidates have experienced recruitment fraud where an individual that claims to be affiliated with GreatWest Kenworth makes a false offer of employment and requests personal information or payment from the candidate. We only correspond with candidates through email addresses ending with @GreatWestKenworth.com. GreatWest Kenworth does not require applicants to provide copies of personal documents such as passports, birth certificates or banking information as part of the application process.

Please email [email protected] if you believe you have experienced recruitment fraud.

Pay: $28.00-$32.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Benefits:

- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Vision care

Work Location: In person

📌 Building Grounds and Maintenance Person (Red Deer)
🏢 Great West Kenworth
📍 Red Deer