Journeyman Millwright

Journeyman Millwright | Princeton, BC
Princeton, British Columbia | Wood Post Manufacturing
Industrial Maintenance / Millwright | Journeyman | Wood Products Manufacturing
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GrizzlyTrek is hiring a Journeyman Millwright for our valued client's wood post manufacturing facility in Princeton, British Columbia. You will keep the plant's production equipment running, from scheduled preventive maintenance through breakdown repair.
This is a local role. You must live in Princeton or relocate there to take it.

At a Glance

Pay

Competitive, based on experience

Location

Princeton, British Columbia

Facility

Wood post manufacturing

Trade

Journeyman Industrial Mechanic (Millwright)

Residency

Must live in Princeton or relocate there

Benefits

Health, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and travel coverage

The Plant

The work is maintenance at a wood post manufacturing facility in Princeton. You keep the mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic systems that move and process wood through the plant in running order, and you get them back up when they go down. Princeton is in the Similkameen Valley on Highway 3, between Hope and the Okanagan.

What You'll Do

• Maintain, troubleshoot, and repair production equipment in a wood post manufacturing facility
• Diagnose and repair drive components, including bearings, gearboxes, shafts, couplings, chains, sprockets, and belts
• Service and repair hydraulic and pneumatic systems
• Align shafts and couplings, and set up equipment to run true
• Carry out scheduled preventive maintenance and respond to breakdowns to keep production moving
• Fabricate, cut, and weld replacement parts and guarding as needed
• Follow lockout and plant safety procedures, and document the work you complete

What You Bring

• A journeyman Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) certificate
• Hands-on experience maintaining and repairing production equipment in an industrial or manufacturing setting
• Strong mechanical troubleshooting on drives, bearings, gearboxes, hydraulics, and pneumatics
• The ability to read drawings, equipment manuals, and schematics
• Safe work habits, including lockout and isolation procedures
• A home in Princeton, or willingness to relocate there for the role

Why Millwrights Take This Job

One plant, your equipment. You work one facility and learn its equipment inside out, instead of chasing shutdowns from site to site.
Live where you work. A local commute in Princeton, not a long haul to a remote site.
Small-town BC. Princeton sits where the Similkameen and Tulameen rivers meet, with lakes and the Kettle Valley Rail Trail close to home.

Benefits

• Overtime opportunities based on operational requirements
• Life insurance plus AD&D with critical illness and cancer coverage
• Extended health: drugs, hospital, hearing, orthotics, vision, and paramedical including mental health
• Dental coverage, including orthodontic coverage for children
• Travel insurance up to $5,000,000 per incident
• Ongoing training and career development support

About GrizzlyTrek

GrizzlyTrek Group is a Technical Workforce and Indigenous Employment Partner. We recruit skilled trades across Canada's industrial sector and place them with reputable employers offering long term work, fair pay, and room to advance. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and proudly support Indigenous employment.

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Journeyman millwright ready to put down roots in Princeton? Tell us the plant equipment you have maintained and where your ticket was issued. Apply today at . Qualified candidates will be contacted quickly.
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