Service Technician, Restaurant Equipment

JOB DESCRIPTION

Join Ecolab’s sales team as a Service Equipment Technician, covering Thunder Bay and the surrounding areas. This opportunity is within our industry leading Institutional division, which offers comprehensive chemical products and solutions to meet the needs of customers across the foodservice and hospitality industries.

After completing an initial training program, you will work with a variety of restaurants, hotels, schools and long-term career facilities.

You will serve as the face of Ecolab by installing, servicing, and maintaining ware washing, laundry, and dispensing systems that drive a positive guest experience and create cleaner, safer, and healthier environments.

What’s in it For You :

• Paid training program that includes job shadowing and structured field activities that allow you to learn from subject matter experts
• Receive a decaled company vehicle for business use
• Access to best-in-class resources, tools, and technology

What You Will Do :

Apply your mechanical aptitude to install, repair and perform maintenance on ware washing, laundry and dispensing equipment and systems;

leveraging this service to strengthen the customer relationship

• Diagnose, repair, and maintain a wide variety of commercial kitchen and laundry appliances.
• Demonstrate safe equipment use, ensuring that your customers’ facilities are fully operational and teams are properly trained
• Manage parts inventory, use, and cost; Complete required reporting of service work
• Ensuring that your customers’ facilities are fully operational and teams are properly trained by demonstrating safe equipment use

Minimum Qualifications :

• Completed High School Diploma or GED. Post-secondary education preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years mechanical problem-solving experience (. plumbing, electrical, HVAC and / or mechanical experience)
• Flexibility to adjust your schedule and hours of work to meet the business needs of the customer
• Ability to travel to the US for training / meetings
• Must have a valid driver's license and acceptable Motor Vehicle Record
• Proof of covid vaccination may be required at some customer sites

Territory Coverage : Thunder Bay and the surrounding areas

Work Schedule : Monday to Friday with weekend coverage every other weekend. With weekend coverage, work week will be shortened.

Physical Demands :

• Lifting / Carrying - up to 100 lbs
• Bending / Stretching / Twisting - up to 50% of time
• Reaching - up to 50% of time; above, at and below shoulder level during installations
• Crouching / Kneeling / Crawling about 30% of time
• Repetitive Movement - up to 50% of time
• Manual Dexterity - up to 50% of time to install, wire and maintain mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems
• Use of Power and Hand Tools - up to 50% of time

Compensation Package :

• Competitive hourly wage
• Fantastic company matched pension plan
• Service vehicle from day 1 with insurance, gas and maintenance coverage
• Benefits from day 1 including medical, dental and disability
• Cell phone
• Shares purchase plan
• Education assistance funding

Preferred Qualifications :

• Service industry mechanical experience (. refrigeration, appliance repair, kitchen equipment, HVAC and / or military experience)
• Customer service experience where you have directly interfaced with customers

Ecolab is dedicated to Employment Equity

About Ecolab Institutional :

Discover how our partnership with customers helps serve 45 billion restaurant meals and clean more than one billion hotel rooms.

From restaurants, hotels and long-term care facilities, to schools, commercial buildings and military facilities, Ecolab’s Institutional division provides a comprehensive program of customized cleaning and sanitizing solutions to help meet the specific needs of our customers.

Join us and help the biggest and best brands ensure guest safety and satisfaction and protect their reputation

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment.

Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, and disabled individuals at all levels of the workforce. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance.

In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.