General Labourer – Kelowna

Compensation: $20 – $25/ hour (full-time / permanent)

Labourers at On Side are important team members who, help rebuild and restore damaged personal and commercial property, anywhere and anytime disaster strikes. Labourers are the MVP of the restoration teams. Willing to learn, love being taught and full of ambition the Labourer knows they’re going places in life and this is the first stop on the way to success!

What you bring…

Labourers bring a host of abilities to their work, not the least being a ‘get it done!’ attitude. Additional abilities required include:

• Experience and desire to do physical work/ heavy lifting
• Understanding and experience using hand and power tools
• Interest in cross training, helping team members, growing with the company
• Critical thinking, curious nature, always want to know how things happen
• Strong people, teamwork and communication skills
• Attention to detail, ability to follow directions
• A safety mindset
• Valid driver’s licence and a clean criminal record (we do check)
• Ability to communicate in English

Other stuff that’ll help you be successful but isn’t mandatory:

• Experienced in construction, home renovation, particularly demolition
• WHMIS
• First Aid

Of Note

Disasters can strike at any time so a rotating schedule of 24/7 after hours on-call work is a requirement.

What’s in it for you?

We’re an established company in a growing industry and we need awesome people! We WANT to start you off on a career path you’ll love, we WANT you to be fulfilled by your work and we WANT to provide you with a steady pay-cheque.

We also love that we’re able to provide an employee assistance program, RRSP matching program, excellent health plan which includes extended medical (chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, vision, and more!) dental, long-term disability (LTD) and life insurance.

We provide on the job training with opportunity for development—promotions and national career movement are yours for the taking (well, with a few months under your belt). At On Side we work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work every day.

Get on our side!

Both major weather disasters and minor accidents involving water, fire, and more happen every day, and in our industry this is how we keep busy, restoring properties 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. Mother Nature usually doesn’t wait for an invitation, but we’re in the business of dealing with party crashers, and we’ve done it for over 40 years!

We have branches from Victoria, BC to St. John’s, Newfoundland and (almost) everywhere in between.

Our fantastic team of over 1,800 employees stretches far and wide across Canada, and we’re growing—YOU could be the next great addition!