Description

Are you ready to roll into a dynamic career where every day brings new challenges? We’re on the hunt for a skilled OTR Tire Technician to join our Field Service Team at our Ottawa commercial store! If you have a passion for hands-on work and take pride in delivering top-notch service, this role is for you. You’ll play a vital part in keeping our customers moving, handling tire removal, installation, and repairs for passenger, light truck, fleet, and OTR vehicles.

Key Highlights of this role:

• Play a pivotal role in the day-to-day operations
• Train and learn how to conduct a commercial tire changeover
• Progress to responding to roadside calls
• Keen willingness to learn in a fast-paced, continuously changing environment.

Why Kal Tire?

• Our aim is that the career of every team member is supported by quality leadership, training, and opportunities for advancement.
• We offer a structured work schedule and pride ourselves on a supportive and safe work environment, career growth, and development.
• Your initial wages start between $28.78 - $33.10 per hour with wage progression and extended group health benefits.
• Profit Sharing program, RRSP matching, Paid vacation.
• A team member discount program that offers discounts on tires, services and more.

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Perform tire removal, installation, and repair services safely for commercial tires. This includes removing wheel assemblies, dismounting tires, inflating and installing repaired or new tires, and reinstalling wheel assemblies according to standard operating procedures.
• Conduct diagnostics, evaluate the reparability of damage, and choose and complete proper repair methods.
• Keen willingness to learn in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Opportunity to progress operating a Service Truck.

Qualifications and Success

• You have a strong mechanical ability and the ability to solve problems on the spot.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to excel in a physical environment and easily lift 50 lbs.
• Safety mindset, ready to wear all required PPE and follow all safety procedures.
• Automotive or tire experience is an asset.

Our Culture of Inclusion

At Kal Tire, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, included, and empowered to succeed. We believe in the strength of diverse perspectives and skills and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Hiring Process

After the pre-selection, a member of our team will contact you and invite you to an on-site interview and a possible guided tour of the store, including the service area.

In addition, as part of our standard hiring process, potential team members at the offer stage will be required to undergo a Canadian criminal record check; candidates must be legally eligible to work for any Canadian employers to be considered for this position at this time.

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Solving our customers’ automotive challenges and making a positive impact - It’s how we roll, and it’s been that way since Tom Foord opened the doors to Kal Tire in 1953 in beautiful Vernon, BC. Over the years, we’ve become a trusted partner for large and small industries and fleets across Canada. Our customers rely on our expertise, our make-it-happen approach to service, and our lineup of the most trusted tire brands in over 260 retail locations coast to coast. Kal Tire is also the largest truck re-treader in Canada, with 11 retread facilities across Canada and internationally, and has a state-of-the-art tire recycling facility in Chile, where 40% of the weight of scrap tires is recycled to return to mines as an alternative fuel. In addition, Kal Tire’s Mining Tire Group is an international leader in mining tire service and supply, servicing more than 150 mine sites across five continents. Kal Tire offers a culture that fosters inclusion and respect. We are committed to providing accessible employment practices in compliance with the AODA and AMA. Accommodation requests can be made at any stage of the recruitment or employment process. Applicants are asked to make their needs/requirements known.