The General Supervisor, Maintenance directly oversees the daily activities of mechanical and electrical maintenance in order to ensure efficient operation of shipyard facility, production equipment, production lines and equipment. The Supervisor provides direction and guidance to the maintenance personal to maintain and repair production equipment, as well as mobile equipment, temporary services, building and grounds maintenance repairs.

Note : Due to business needs, this position is required to be fully on-site based at 50 Pemberton Avenue, North Vancouver.

This position leads teams who work the night shift and will work the following hours, Monday to Friday : 9 : 30 pm – 05 : 30 am.

What you’ll do

• Manage and coordinate the work of multiple subcontractors and suppliers.
• Effectively manage and schedule variety of mechanical and electrical work and maintenance.
• Routinely inspect equipment for needed repairs and maintenance and repair requests.
• Perform frequent on-the-job inspections to ensure safe working habits, safe work areas, quality of workmanship, effectiveness of maintenance and repairs.
• Ensures work progression in accordance with safety, cost, quality and schedules.
• Implements and enforces Seaspan Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality processes on the shop floor and strives to eliminate safety hazards at every opportunity.
• Reports internally on work process and status.
• Raises technical trade issues with Management and implements solutions as identified by Management.
• Responsible for interpreting work order specifications and manufacturing information, ensuring work orders are completed, keeping updated on standards and changes in plans, and provisioning materials in the case of unavailability.
• Assists in determining work plans, sequences and schedules and may be required to assist in preparing estimates.
• Responsible for delivering production in accordance with Company and customer quality standards.
• Partners with Management to ensure trade employees have the skills, equipment, training and certifications required to perform planned work activities.
• Ensures work crews minimize waste expense and unnecessary delays in construction or repair work.
• Works with Management to eliminate inefficient work practice and fully use their work crew experience and skills to progress the work.
• Allocate trades employees in accordance with schedule and priorities, assigning work to trade employees with the skill and ability to efficiently complete scheduled work.
• Responsible for discipline, including performance and attendance management, termination of employment, as well as assigning or removing chargehand responsibilities to trades employees.
• Follows and enforces the collective agreement and management practices to manage trades employees effectively.
• Responsible for timekeeping administration and approval of direct and indirect reports.
• Ensures all employees are provided with a work environment that is respectful and harassment free.
• Required to be available for after hours, off-shift and weekends on a rotational basis.

What you’ll bring

Why you’ll love working here

The estimated salary for this position is $115,000-$127,000. In determining final salary, Seaspan considers many factors including the successful Candidate’s skillset and experience as well as position location and internal equity. The final base salary offer will be at the Company’s sole discretion and presented as part of a competitive total compensation package.

LI-LO1 #LI-ONSITE