About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Work setting: Various locations.
Tasks
- Perform brake adjustments.
- Perform emergency roadside repairs.
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle.
- Perform preventive maintenance.
- Receive and relay information to central dispatch.
- Record cargo information, hours of service, distance travelled and fuel consumption.
- Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses : Driver's License (Class 3 or D).
- Documentation knowledge: Inspection report (pre-trip, en-route, post-trip).
- Trip reports.
- Type of trucking and equipment: Tow truck.
- Security and safety: Criminal record check.
- Driver's validity licence check.
- Driving record check (abstract).
- Medical exam.
- Transportation/travel information: Valid driver's licence.
- Willing to travel for extended periods.
- Willing to travel overnight.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Attention to detail.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Physically demanding.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Sitting.
- Weight handling: Up to 23 kg (50 lbs).
- Own tools/equipment: Steel-toed safety boots.
- Personal suitability: Efficient interpersonal skills.
- Excellent oral communication.
- Flexibility.
- Organized.
- Reliability.
- Hardworking.
- Patience.
- Employment terms options: Early morning.
- Evening.
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Night.
- Day.
- Weekend.
- Overtime required.
- Overtime available.
- Workplace information: Hybrid.
- Other benefits: Learning/training paid by employer.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees . Support for youths: Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth.
- Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers .