Field Service Technician I

LB Foster; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated individual to join their team in a role that emphasizes safety, teamwork, and innovation. This position involves traveling across North America to provide essential installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting support for friction management lubricators. Ideal candidates will possess strong communication and time management skills, along with a commitment to safety and professionalism. With a focus on work-life balance, this company offers a flexible work culture and opportunities for career advancement, making it an exciting place to grow your career while contributing to impactful infrastructure solutions.

Benefits

Work/Life Balance

Flexible Work Culture

Career Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent required.
• 0-2 years of hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, electrical experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Travel weekly for installation, maintenance, and customer training support.
• Liaise with customers and departments for product development.

Skills

Communication Skills

Time Management

Reliability

Problem Solving

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Hand Tools

Power Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

At L.B. Foster, our culture reflects our passion for integrity, accountability, and safety. We have a long history of providing a safe workplace for our employees, striving to be good stewards for the environment, and establishing strong and respectful relationships with our customers and communities. These fundamentals have provided the foundation upon which we have managed our business for more than a century.

We continue to strengthen our culture with a focus on SPIRIT. Within the company lies a spirit of teamwork and innovation that drives a culture around continuous improvement and high performance.

S – Safety

P – People

I – Integrity

R – Respect

T – Teamwork

As a purpose-driven business, L.B. Foster looks to combine financial success with social and environmental responsibility. By integrating purpose into our business model, strategies, and operations, we strive to create a more sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world.

We innovate to solve the world's most complex infrastructure problems.

• Rail Solutions: our end-to-end critical engineering solutions fulfill an essential role in maintaining the safe and reliable operation of railroad networks around the world.
• Infrastructure Solutions: we are experts in the design, manufacture, and deployment of advanced technologies that positively impact the built environment.

To learn more about our innovation to solve global infrastructure challenges, visit L.B. Foster.

Who You Are…

• High school graduate or equivalent required.
• 0-2 years of hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, electrical experience preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and driver’s abstract required.
• E-Railsafe required upon hire, plus other customer-based training as may be required to access work sites.

What Do You Need….

• Experience using basic hand and power tools.
• Strong communication (verbal and computer) and time management skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel, etc.) is a plus.
• A high degree of reliability, professionalism, and the ability to work independently with minimal supervision are critical attributes for this position.
• Sound writing skills for work report submissions.
• Ability and willingness to follow all applicable safety and operating rules for client railways in a professional and conscientious manner.
• Must wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as Hard Hat, Safety glasses, Gloves, and Hearing protection as required.
• May be required to act as watchman/lookout and shall devote full attention to detecting the approach of trains and communicating a warning thereof to other personnel.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, sit, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch for prolonged periods of time.
• Will be required to operate impact equipment, power tools, hand tools under heavy loads, and manual earth-moving tools as required for trenching of ditches to bury hoses and electrical cables.
• Overtime hours may be necessary as workloads dictate, which may include weekdays, weekends, and/or holidays.

Responsibilities:

• Traveling on a weekly basis to provide installation, maintenance, troubleshooting/repair, and customer training support for all LB Foster friction management lubricators. Extensive travel to work sites throughout North America is required on a weekly basis.
• Liaise with external customers and internal company departments for product development and relationship-building initiatives.
• Ability to work outdoors on railway tracks under a variety of weather conditions.
• Responsible for managing personal travel expense account, individual or company-supplied mechanics tools, and company-issued credit cards where applicable.
• Handles basic issues and problems and refers more complex issues to higher-level staff.
• All other duties as assigned.

Why L.B. Foster? Here are just some of our great offerings:

• Priority on work/life balance and schedule flexibility.
• Flexible work culture and environment.
• Career development and advancement opportunities.

Qualifications

Education

Required

High School Diploma or better.

Experience

Required

eRail Safe

Preferred

Less than 2 years of hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, electrical experience.