Assembly Heavy Equipment Technician Apprentice

Location: Edmonton, AB, Canada
Career Number: 3713
Date Posted: 2025-01-16

Working at DFI

As a privately owned company, with innovation as a core value, DFI has the unique ability to provide you with experiences that put your ideas into action.
Over the past 50+ years, the relentless pursuit of excellence and self-sufficiency has led DFI to grow from a small, one-truck operation into a multi-national company that works across the globe delivering world-class products and services across a vast array of industries.

Our own independent ERW pipe mill, our 54-acre storage yard, 200,000 square feet of shop space (featuring overhead cranes, vehicle exhaust extraction, and mechanic pits), our in-house engineers, our custom-built cranes, and internal international opportunities are all examples of what proudly sets us apart.

We recognize that none of the above could be achieved without a world-class workforce, so let us invest in you.

Job Profile
Our newly built Assembly Technicians enjoy a flexible, clean, healthy, and organized team dynamic where they work together or independently in a challenging and rewarding environment to fit, align, plumb, assemble, test, and commission new equipment using new or recommissioned parts within the fabrication group. Custom-designed equipment can range from 45-ton purpose-built Picker trucks, 50-ton crawler cranes, Air Rotary surface mining, Auger Drilling, and auxiliary equipment. The DFI and Assembly group management understands the most valuable ideas and concepts are discovered by the front-line staff and encourages input from all levels to consistently improve equipment grade, quality, and performance.

Benefits:
• Comprehensive Health and Dental plan
• RRSP Matching
• Employee Referral Program
• Professional Development Allowance
• Employee-preferred fuel pricing program
• Career advancement opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee discounts at participating vendors

Job Duties

• Participate in facility health and safety practices
• Maintain a good attitude and practice critical thinking skills
• Perform tasks within or beyond their skillset in a controlled environment
• Lead the following: Fit, plumb, assemble new parts, and install small or large components to spec including but not limited to Pumps, PTO, Gearboxes, Generator, Power plants, Compressors, Booms, 
• Derricks, Torque tube, subframes, cooling packages, operator’s cabin, Track assemblies, etc.
• Layout and plan project parts placement and fitment.
• Crimp and clean hydraulic hose assemblies
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair mechanical and hydraulic systems
• Commission new equipment including setting hydraulic pressure and flow
• Operate forklift, overhead crane, laser level, and heavy shop tools as needed
  

Qualifications

• Registered Apprentice Millwright or Heavy Equipment Technician; an asset
• Experience in the fabrication repair of heavy equipment or sub-assemblies
• Understanding of hydraulic plumbing and component groups; an asset
• Strong work ethic with the ability to work independently
• Must supply own hand and air tools