Job description/ Mine Site Setting
Key Responsibilities
- Material Handling: Safely operate a wheel loader to feed crushing plants, load haul trucks, or stockpile materials
- Equipment Inspections: Conduct comprehensive pre-shift and daily circle checks (fluids, tire pressure, hydraulics, and safety features) to ensure operational readiness
- Site Cleanliness: Maintain pit floors, clear haul roads, clean up around primary shovels, and push snow/debris depending on seasonal requirements
- Safety & Hazard Reporting: Perform field-level risk assessments, identify workplace hazards, and immediately report mechanical faults or unsafe conditions to the shift supervisor
- Communication: Maintain constant, clear communication with Supervisors, haul truck operators, and operator crews using a two-way radio
Qualifications & Requirements
- Experience: Minimum 2–3 years of continuous experience operating large-scale (CAT 966-986) wheel loaders in a heavy industrial or mining environment
- Valid G (or DZ/AZ) Driver’s License with a clean driver's abstract.
- Surface Common Core Certification is a strong asset for Ontario-based open-pit mine sites
- Physical & Environmental Demands: Ability to work up to 12-hour rotating shifts (days and nights) in all weather conditions.
Schedule: 5/2 - 7/7
Wages commensurate with experience
Pre-employment drug tests are conducted.
Day Group offers a competitive wage package, along with excellent health benefits and pension opportunities. Our commitment to employees extends to include other employment benefits, including our Employee Assistance Program, our active Employee Social Club, discounted gym memberships and insurance because of our partnerships in the communities we live and work in.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $32.00-$35.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Vision care
Flexible language requirement:
Work Location: In person
