What You Will Do

Summary

Join our team reporting to the Chief Engineer, where you’ll play a key role in safely operating and maintaining our plant equipment. You’ll inspect, repair, and service a range of systems including HVAC, pneumatic, heating, water lines, sterilizers, and more. Ensure all work meets power engineering codes, safety regulations, and company policies. If you’re detail-oriented, safety-focused, and experienced with plant maintenance, we want to hear from you!

What You Bring

Education

• Certificate of competency as a 4th Class Power Engineer recognized by the Province of British Columbia. Two years’ recent, related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, drawings and specifications.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• \Ability to operate related equipment.
  
  
  

What We Offer

• State-of-the-art facilities:  The new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will be the most innovative approach to the delivery of integrated care in B.C. and Canada, designed to appropriately address the future health needs of patients, families and our communities. From hospital care to primary and community health solutions, the new St. Paul’s Hospital and health campus will continue to lead innovations in care, research, and teaching. The new St. Paul’s Hospital is expected to open in 2027.
• A competitive salary: $35.56 per hour.
• Inclusive culture: We respect the diversity, dignity and independence of all person. We value the cultural richness that our diverse workforce brings to the care of our equally diverse population of patients and residents.

Your Day to Day:

• Operates heating, air conditioning, pumps, fans, air compressors, and pneumatic systems.

• Monitors and adjusts temperature control systems; records meter and gauge readings.

• Checks, repairs, and maintains plumbing fixtures and systems (water lines, waste lines, steam valves, sterilizers, ovens, etc.).

• Operates mechanical, pneumatic, and electronic controls to adjust HVAC and plant systems.

• Repairs and calibrates steam and HVAC instrumentation components.

• Performs preventive and demand maintenance on heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment.

• Tests, maintains, and repairs auxiliary power generators.

• Cleans, lubricates, and performs minor welding repairs on equipment like beds and wheelchairs.

• Changes and cleans air filters, fan rooms, and ductwork.

• Responds to service and emergency calls for fire protection, medical air, vacuum, gas, and sterilizers.

Who We Are:  

Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.  

From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence has grown into globally renowned research, teaching, and care organization. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of Providence Health Care because we value the organization’s long commitment to social justice and compassionate care, and its commitment to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. 

We acknowledge that Providence Health Care and the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.