Restaurant Equipment Technician

Ecolab

  • Ottawa, ON
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
Join Ecolab’s sales team as a Restaurant Equipment Service Technician, covering Ottawa 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 (e.g. 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
Territory Coverage: Ottawa and the surrounding areasPhysical 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 (e.g. 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 EquityAbout 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.

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