Looking for a hands-on role in a fast-paced, growing industrial environment?
SKEANS is seeking a Service Technician | Industrial Mechanic to join our Service team. This role is perfect for someone who is curious to learn, collaborative by nature, and committed to doing things right.
We’re looking for someone who is a natural problem solver, mechanically inclined, and committed to keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes — while supporting our customers and internal teams with accuracy, pride, and care. You will play a key role in helping us deliver the best possible service to our customers in a safe and professional manner.
About SKEANS:
Skeans Pneumatic and Automation Inc. is one of Western Canada’s leading Pneumatic & Electrical Automation and Compressor Room Systems distributors, with seven full-service locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
For over 55 years, our family owned, and managed company has provided automation and compressed air solutions to a diversified industry base across Western Canada. By establishing strong partnerships, we connect automation with customer driven innovation, adding value and finding innovative solutions to some of the most important manufacturing issues facing businesses. From generation to actuation, our rotating equipment, pneumatic and electric automation solutions help our customers improve productivity and profitability and create a safer work environment.
Whether our clients need a compressed air energy audit, special pneumatic cylinder designs, electric actuation, robotics, optical sensors, or machine safety systems, we have the right solution!
What You’ll Do – Service
This position involves maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of Rotating Equipment Solutions (RES) onsite at customer locations throughout the Lower Mainland/Metro Vancouver, as well as equipment sent to SKEANS for in-house assessment and repair. This position will service piston, vane and rotary screw air compressors, blowers, vacuum pumps, air dryers and will also install compressed air pipe systems.
With strong mechanical aptitude and pride in work, the position contributes to adding value for our customers and meeting service timelines on an ongoing basis, as well as adapting to changing priorities.
Working in the field at customer sites and at our in-house repair shop, your primary responsibilities will include:
- Perform on-site service calls for customers, including start-up coordination of RES equipment
- Follow up on Service Contracts and Warranty Evaluation of customers’ equipment
- Perform aluminum piping installation
- Project management for new compressor room designs and implementation
- Conduct air audits and surveys (training provided)
- Coordinate customer quotes for service work and parts with the Service Coordinator
- Assist sales team and customers with technical assistance
What We’re Looking For
Experience counts, but the most important thing is your attitude:
- 2-3 years’ experience in a Service Technician role or similar and a Red Seal Industrial Mechanic certificate.
- Red Seal Electrician tickets are also considered an advantage. Preference will be given to candidates with basic electrical knowledge – control voltage and high voltage.
- Project management, pneumatic automation and compressed air knowledge is an asset.
- Genuinely curious – eager to learn new products, systems, and processes
- You are reliable, adaptable, and take ownership of your work
- You’re physically capable: lifting up to 50 lbs, standing/moving, and working safely
- You’re comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
- You bring good hearing, vision, manual dexterity, and hand-eye coordination
- You have a strong sense of organization and attention to detail
- You’re confident with basic math and have a mechanical mindset
- Availability for some weekend emergency shut down work
- Ability to travel to the USA for supplier training.
- Bring your own tools, in addition to company-owned specialized tools.
Industrial Mechanic and Electrician experience is an asset, but we’ll train the right person with the right energy.
Why Join SKEANS?
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including Comprehensive group insurance, Extended group health and dental benefits, Healthcare and Wellness Spending Accounts, Group Financial Savings & Employer Matching Program, Comprehensive internal and external training programs, Continuing Education financial support
- A stable, Monday to Friday schedule
- Opportunities to grow and learn new skills in a collaborative environment
- A respected, long-standing company committed to innovation, teamwork, and customer success
This is more than a service job – it’s an opportunity to build a career in industrial automation with a company that values your curiosity, collaboration and commitment.
